Cgs Exam 2 Ch. 8

Front 1

Which of the following devices is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from a flash drive or external hard drive, for example?

Back 1

Storage

Front 2

Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?

Back 2

Smart

Front 3

Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?

Back 3

SSDs have faster transfer rates

Front 4

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?

Back 4

CD-R

Front 5

Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?

Back 5

read/write head

Front 6

Which of the following can be used to store a prepaid amount of money. such as for student purchases on campus?

Back 6

Smart cards

Front 7

Which of the following kinds of RIFD tags contains a battery that runs the chip's circuitry and broadcasts a signal to the RIFD reader?

Back 7

Active

Front 8

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a full backup?

Back 8

Archival

Front 9

What is the term for the case that contains the same adapters found on a motherboard with which to connect the internal hard drive?

Back 9

Enclosure

Front 10

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

Back 10

Hard

Front 11

Which of the following is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy material that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface?

Back 11

platter

Front 12

Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accused items?

Back 12

Disk cache

Front 13

Which of the following is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase?

Back 13

DVD-ROM

Front 14

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 form the system bus and other components in the computer?

Back 14

Controller

Front 15

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

Back 15

Ripping

Front 16

Which of the following is a type of optical disc that users can read from but not write to or erase?

Back 16

DVD-ROM

Front 17

Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once?

Back 17

CD-RW

Front 18

What kind of storage is an internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users?

Back 18

Cloud

Front 19

Which of the following kinds of devices are servers connected to a network with the sole purpose of providing storage?

Back 19

NAS

Front 20

Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?

Back 20

Sequential

Front 21

Which of the following provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies?

Back 21

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Front 22

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

Back 22

Capacity

Front 23

Storage devices access items in which of the following units of time?

Back 23

milliseconds

Front 24

What kind of disc is a type of storage media that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written to and read by a laser?

Back 24

Optical

Front 25

Which of the following is a device that reads from and writes on memory cards?

Back 25

Reader/writer