Exam 8: Digital Storage

Enterprise storage often uses ____________________ technology as the interface that connects the devices to the network because it has much faster transmission rates than SCSI and other interfaces.

An RFID ____________________ reads the radio signals from an RFID tag and transfers the information to a computer or computing device.

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

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following statements is NOT true about smart cards?

Because passive RFID tags contain a battery, they cannot be embedded in skin.

A storage area network includes only storage devices.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which storage term used to measure capacity is approximately a billion bytes?

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a selective backup?

What kind of storage is an Internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users?

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

A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hard disk?

Which of the following can be used to store a prepaid amount of money, such as for student purchases on campus?

Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?

Users subscribe to a cloud storage service, like the kind advertised in the accompanying figure, to do all of the following EXCEPT to ____.

The greater the disk cache, the slower the hard disk.

On an optical disc, a land causes light to reflect, which is read as binary digit 0.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What happens when a computer or mobile device starts up?

Which of the following is not a competing rewritable DVD format?

Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?