What kind of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?

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______ is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold.

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A storage medium is also called primary storage.

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

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The transfer rate of external hard drives usually is slower than that of internal hard drives.

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You have been chosen to be a teaching assistant at your school. A student comes to you with questions about storage devices.

The student asks you which type of storage device is best to store the operating system and applications. You tell her that a(n) ______ is a good option.

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Credit cards are a type of ______ stripe card.

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Which of the following is true about cleaning and fixing scratches on an optical disc?

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Hold the can of compressed air upright while blowing excess dust off of the surface.

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SDHC and miniSD are examples of ______.

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A(n) ______ is a flash memory storage device that contains its own processor to manage its storage.

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What does a disk's form factor describe?

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A storage appliance has its own IP address.

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A(n) ______ backup copies only the files that have changed since the last full backup.

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

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Which of the following is NOT true about hard disks?

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A desktop hard disk is much smaller than that of a laptop.

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

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Which of the following is NOT a recommendation when deciding what to upload to the cloud?

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Even if you have access to installation media, back up your programs and apps.

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With a personal cloud, your files are stored on a server on the Internet that stores only just your files and is maintained by a cloud storage provider.

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SSDs typically have higher storage capacities than hard disks.

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Because the user accesses files on cloud storage through a browser using an app from the storage provider, the actual media on which the files are stored are transparent to the user.

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Desktops and traditional laptops usually have an optical disc drive.

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______ is the process of dividing a hard disk into tracks and sectors.

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Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Creative Commons?

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To provide standard licensing options for owners of creative works

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Optical discs store items by using microscopic ______ (indentations) and ______ (flat areas).

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

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You work part-time at a computer equipment store in the optical disc section.

A customer asks about differences between CD formats. You tell her that a(n) ______ is an erasable multisession disc users can write on multiple times.

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Outsourcing is when an enterprise offloads storage management to an outside organization or cloud storage provider.

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An optical disc typically stores data, instructions, and information in a single track that spirals from the center of the disc to the edge of the disc.

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Two types of smart cards are contact and contactless.

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SAS is a type of SCSI that uses ______ signals to transfer data, instructions, and information.

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

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The simplest RAID storage design writes data on two drives at the same time and is called ______.

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Which of the following best describes the term, redundancy, as it pertains to enterprise businesses?

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If one hardware component fails or malfunctions, another can assume its tasks

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Which type of user is most likely to use a RAID?

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Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with DVD and CD formats.

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Hard disks are read/write storage media.

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

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Avoid using cards with photos.

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Which of the following is NOT true about SSDs?

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SSDs have slower access times than hard disks.

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Items stored in RAM remain intact even when you turn off a computer or mobile device.

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In RAID level 1, a backup disk exists for each drive.

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Manufacturers measure optical disc drives relative to the original speed, using an X to denote a transfer rate of ______ KBps.

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In an optical disc, the absence of light is read as binary digit 1.

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A gigabyte is approximately 1 ______ bytes.

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NFC is a technology that uses close-range radio signals to transmit data between devices or a device and a tag.

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

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What occurs during a head crash?

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The read/write head touches the surface of a platter.

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The chips in RFID tags usually can function as a processor.

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

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You work part-time at a computer equipment store in the optical disc section.

A customer asks about DVD formats. You tell her that a(n) ______ is a more expensive DVD format that has higher capacity and better quality.

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Which of the following cloud services does Evernote provide?

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