Exam 7: Storage

When a user issues a command to start application software, the operating system locates the program in memory and loads it into storage.

Access time for today's hard disks is which of the following ranges?

The process of writing on an optical disc is called burning.

Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold?

You can erase a DVD-ROM.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following is not an advantage of removable hard disks over internal hard disks?

Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-2 You began work as a consultant to individuals and businesses, making recommendations to them about the kinds of systems they should buy and what equipment they should have. Sayed is a power user at a manufacturing facility. What is a good recommendation for the size of his hard disk?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Some personal computer manufacturers provide a hard disk configuration that connects multiple smaller disks into a single unit that acts like a single large hard disk. What is this grouping called?

Which of the following currently have storage capacities of 16 GB to 256 GB and more?

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

The inflexible, circular platters on which kind of disks use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information?

____________________ is a hard disk interface that can support up to four hard disks at 137 GB per disk.

Which of the following is a drive that usually can read audio CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs, in addition to DVD-ROMs?

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

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following disc types can be written onto, but not erased.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT When storage devices write data, instructions, and information on storage media, they are creating output. What best describes the process of writing data?

As shown on the bottom in the accompanying figure, an external hard disk is a hard disk that users insert and remove from either a dock or drive.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the name of the company that has the rights to design, develop, manufacture, and market flash drives?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the guaranteed life expectancy of microfilm?

Writing is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from a storage medium into memory.