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Computers 101 Practice Test: Storage
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1. A ____ is a separate piece of hardware containing multiple high-speed hard drives.
2. The elements shown in the accompanying figure are ____, which are used to organize related documents.
3. A ____, as shown in the accompanying figure, consists of a vertical stack of tracks, with the same relative track on each disk surface.
4. ____ means that data can be retrieved directly from any location on the storage medium, in any order.
5. Anything (such as a program, letter, digital photograph, or song) stored on a storage medium is referred to as a(n) ____.
6. A friend of Dan suggested to him that he can use an external hard drive for his data storage and backup needs. To use an external hard drive, Dan should make sure that his computer has an available USB or ____ port.
7. Regardless of how storage devices are connected to a computer, ____ and/or names are typically assigned to each storage device.
8. Data files are also often called ____.
9. CD-ROM discs and DVD-ROM discs are ____ optical discs and come prerecorded with commercial products.
10. Rodney wants to be able to easily carry files with him wherever he goes but he also has a tendency to lose things. Knowing this, he should probably save those files on a ____ drive which he can then attach to his backpack.
11. Each hard disk is divided into pie-shaped groups of ____.
12. Partitions are sometimes referred to as ____.
13. To read data, the reference beam projects the hologram containing the requested data onto a ____ that reads the entire data page at one time.
14. External hard drives today typically connect to a computer via a USB or ____ port.
15. To keep files organized, related documents are often stored in ____ (also called directories) located on the storage medium.
16. A ____ is the hardware where data is actually stored.
17. A ____ partition contains the data necessary to restore a hard drive back to its state at the time the computer was purchased and is designed to be used only if the computer malfunctions.
18. RAID 0 uses disk ____, which spreads files over several disk drives.
19. Media that allow random access are sometimes referred to as ____ media.
20. A strategy for speeding up hard drive performance is ____.
21. Most computer tapes today are in the form of ____ tapes, as shown in the accompanying figure.
22. Usually the storage device and storage medium are two separate pieces of hardware (that is, the storage medium is ____).
23. One technology for 3D storage systems that, after many years of research and development, is now a reality is ____.
24. ____ optical discs can be recorded on, erased, and overwritten just like magnetic disks.
25. A ____ is a place to store something temporarily.

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