Exam 8: Digital Storage

USB technology is much faster than the eSATA interface.

Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider?

Some DVDs are double-sided.

Which of the following provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies?

You are looking for a term that can be used to refer collectively to hard disks and SSDs inside a computer. Which of the following can you use?

Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?

____________________ time measures the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium or the time required to deliver an item from memory to the processor.

Explain the advantages of cloud storage.

In addition to USB, what are the four types of interfaces for use in personal computers for connecting drives? Briefly describe each.

When storage devices write data on storage media, they are creating input.

Which of the following is a small, rectangular, plastic housing for tape?

Laptops with solid-state drives usually have a higher storage capacity than laptops with a traditional hard disk.

With ____________________ recording, hard disks align the magnetic particles vertically, making much greater storage capacities possible.

You are looking for a term that can be used to refer globally to external hard disks and external SSDs. Which of the following can you use?

You are looking to implement a high-speed network with the sole purpose of providing storage to other attached servers. Which of the following will you implement?

What is the usual rate of speed for the platters in a hard disk?

You began work as a consultant to individuals and businesses, making recommendations to them about the kinds of storage systems they should buy and what equipment they should have. Sayed is an enterprise user. Which of the following is the closest to the level of need for his business?

Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider that places a folder on your computer with contents you can synchronize across multiple devices?

Optical discs should be stored in a flat (horizontal) position.

____________________ uses serial signals to transfer data, instructions, and information.