Exam 8: Digital Storage

Which of the following is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy material that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface?

Which of the following kinds of RFID tags contains a battery that runs the chip's circuitry and broadcasts a signal to the RFID reader?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the term for a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of a hard disk?

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?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What best describes an optical disc?

The process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media is called ____________________.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of external hard drives over internal hard drives?

Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once?

Which of the following consists of a special-purpose chip and electronic circuits that govern the transfer of data, instructions, and information from a drive to and from the system bus and other components in the computer?

How do discs, like the one in the accompanying figure, commonly store items?

Which of the following kinds of devices duplicates data, instructions, and information to improve data reliability?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following has a higher capacity and better quality than standard DVDs, especially for high-definition audio and video?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which RAID level technique splits data, instructions, and information across multiple disks in the array?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are using an optical disc on your game console. Which of the following is it most likely to be?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What technology works with specially coated optical discs to etch labels directly on the disc?

When writing or reading specific data, sequential access is much faster than direct access.

Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accessed items?

A DVD-RW is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase.

Optical discs store items by using microscopic lands (indentations) that are in the middle layer of the disc.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT A standard CD-ROM is called a single-session disc. Why are they called single-session discs?