Exam 8: Digital Storage

A popular use of CD-RW and CD-R discs is to create audio CDs. What is the process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media called?

What does NAS stand for?

Which of the following storage devices typically stores the operating system?

Which of the following is NOT true about caring for optical discs?

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

You should defragment SSDs frequently because the location of the stored data has a significant impact on its access times.

Discuss how the speed of storage devices and memory is defined.

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

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 is a multisession optical disc on which users can write, but not erase, their own items such as text, graphics, and audio?

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?

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

Although current internal hard disks are built to withstand shocks and are sealed tightly to keep out contaminants, head crashes still occur.

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

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

Enterprise hardware often includes levels of ____________________, which means that if one component fails or malfunctions, another can assume its tasks.

In all of the advertisements for personal computers, vendors usually state the type of hard disk interface supported by the hard disk controller. Therefore, it is important that you understand the types of available hard disk interfaces, so that you can make the most informed choice possible. After more consideration, you have decided that what you want most is an interface that is less susceptible to interference. Which of the following is your best bet in this regard?

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

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

Which of the following kinds of storage is NOT used by NAS and SAN solutions?