Exam 7: Secondary Storage

Which of the following measures the amount of time required by the storage device to retrieve data and programs?

USB drives are also known as ________ drives.

Three common storage options discussed in your text are hard disk,________,and solid-state storage.

The hard-disk's surface is scratched and some or all of the data is destroyed when there is a ________.

A ________ occurs when a read-write head makes contact with the hard disk's surface or with particles on its surface.

Which of these is not an example of solid-state storage?

File servers are appropriate devices to use in an enterprise storage system.

Discuss the importance and uses of secondary storage devices.

DVDs have replaced CDs as the standard optical disc.

Which of the following characteristics about RAID is incorrect?

Typically a personal computer uses a(n)________ to store the operating system and software applications.

Due to its expanded storage capability,fast access speed,and high reliability,________ is (are)often used by Internet servers and large organizations.

CD-ROMs are often used to archive data and to record music downloaded from the Internet.

Differentiate between CD,DVD,and Blu-ray discs.

If you have used Google Docs to create a word processing document,you have used cloud computing.

A CD-RW disc ________.

One way to improve the storage capacity of a hard disk is to ________.

Most large organizations store data through a strategy called a(n)________ to promote efficient and safe use of data across the networks within their organizations.

The process of accessing information from secondary storage devices is referred to as ________.

________ improves hard-disk performance by anticipating data needs and reducing time to access data from secondary storage.