Exam 8: Digital Storage

Some RAID levels use ______, which splits data, instructions, and information across multiple drives in the array.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT As it pertains to drives, which of the following best defines the purpose of a controller?

______ is the number of bits in an area on a storage medium.

Perpendicular recording aligns the magnetic particles horizontally around the surface of the hard disk.

Which of the following cloud services does Evernote provide?

Thumb drive is another term for a(n) ______.

What does a disk's form factor describe?

Credit cards are a type of ______ stripe card.

A(n) ______ drive is comparable to a cassette recorder.

The term hard drive refers collectively to hard disks and ______.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following is NOT recommended for safe credit card use?

The total number of items that can be stored on a gigabyte will vary, depending on file size, quality of media, and other factors.

Describe issues surrounding BYOD policies.

With serial transfers, data is sent one bit at a time. ______ transfers send several bits at once.

A megabyte is approximately 1 ______ bytes.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following is NOT true about hard disks?

A land causes light to reflect, while a(n) ______ absorbs light.

Tape storage requires ______ access, which refers to reading or writing data consecutively.

SDHC and miniSD are examples of ______.

Continuous data protection is widely used by home and small business users.