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Name
Magnetic Storage Devices & Media
Class
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 24mins
Date
Instructor name: Anmarie Anderson
1.
What are the disks inside a hard disk drive called?
a) Plate
b) Disk
c) Saucer
d) Platter
2.
What is the name of the part labelled 'E'?
a) Actuator Arm
b) Read/Write Arm
c) Spindle Arm
d) HDD Arm
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What does the part labelled 'C' do for the HDD?
a) Holds the rotating actuator in place
b) Holds the rotating platters in place
c) Holds the rotating spindle in place
d) Holds the rotating heads in place
4.
What is the name of the part labelled 'D'?
5.
a) Read / Write Head
b) Reader
c) Writer
d) Actuator Arm tip
What is the magnet called in the HDD?
a) Voice Actuator
b) Coil Actuator
c) Voice Coil Actuator
d) Voice Coil
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What are the metal disks in a HDD coated with?
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a) Magnetics Medium
b) Glue
c) Gold dust
d) Alluminum
What does the rotational drive use to store the informations onto the platters?
a) Radiation
b) Polarization
c) Magnitizem
d) Gama Waves
8.
What is the name of the part labelled 'C'?
a) Disk
b) Actuator
c) Platter
d) Spindle
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What is the name of the part labelled 'A'?
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a) Actuator
b) HDD Arm
c) Read/Write Arm
d) Actuator Arm
What is used to record data in a computer?
a) hard drive
b) unicorns
c) processor
d) magnetism
What three of these devices are considered magnetic storage devices?
a) floppy drive
b) memory drive
c) processor drive
d) tape drive
e) hard drive
12.
What is the mechanism that records information to and reads information from a magnetic
medium?
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a) read/write head
b) CPU head
c) read head
d) monitor
How is a magnetic pattern turned into data?
a) An electric signal is generated when the
magnetic pattern is read from the disk drive
c) An electric signal is created when the
magnets touch the drive base
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b) An electric signal is generated from the
magnetic patterns
d) An electric signal is created when each stack
of drives is pushed together
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What is a device that moves the head over the disk?
a) actuating hand
b) actuator arm
c) agitator arm
d) activator arm
The magnetic polarity produced by a conductor is directly related to the direction of _____ through
the wire.
16.
a) volts
b) current
c) ampules
d) amps
The magnetic patterns left on a disk represent _____ numbers.
a) hexidecimal
b) computer
c) code
d) binary
17.
What are a set of concentric circles where data is stored on a disk?
a) circles
b) rounds
c) paths
d) tracks
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When tracks are subdivided into physical sections called
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a) portions
b) pieces
c) regions
d) sectors
Magnetic storage
a) Storage that can be disconnected from the
main computer unit, for example to transfer
b) Storage that uses a surface which can be
magnetised to store data
files between computers.
c) Moving a data, program or file from memory
onto secondary storage for later use.
20.
What type of storage is this?
a) Optical
b) Magnetic
c) Solid State
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What is an advantage of a Hard drive?
a) Large storage capacity
b) Portable, easy to carry around
c) Expensive to buy
d) Easily scratched, leading to the loss of data
Which of the following would NOT be a suitable means for a wedding photographer to store
pictures (choose as many as appropriate)?
23.
a) USB Drive
b) DVD
c) SD card
d) Magnetic Tape
Which of the following statements are INCORRECT? (choose as many as appropriate)
a) Magnetic tape is obsolete and is no longer
b) Any storage device with moving parts is likely
used
c) Optical storage is suited to backing
to be more reliable
d) SSD's run cooler than magnetic drives so are
up/archiving files
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suited to use in laptops
Magnetic tape is still used for ______
a) Playstation games
b) Archiving/Backing up of large data
c) Remote storage
d) Music albums
Large organisations use this type of storage device to back up their systems daily.
a) DVD
b) Magnetic tape
c) CD
d) Blu-ray
Which of these is a Hard Disk Drive (HDD)?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Which of these are magnetic storage devices?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
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Which of the following is most commonly found in PCs?
a) Optical Storage
b) Solid State Storage
c) Magnetic Storage
d) Cloud Storage
Not intended to be a portable storage device.
a) Internal hard disk
b) CD
c) Flash memory
d) DVD
A(n) ____ converts the magnetic pattern from a hard drive platter into electrical pulses.
a) actuator arm
b) write project
c) read/write head
d) conductor
To write information on a storage medium
a) Restore
b) Upload
c) Save
d) Load
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What would be the most suitable storage device for backing up a company network?
a) DVD
b) Solid State Drive
c) USB
d) Magnetic tape
What type of storage device is the following a description of? Data is stored in the form of tiny
magnetised dots. Dots are created, read and erased by magnetic fields created by tiny
electromagnets.
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a) Solid State
b) Paper
c) Optical
d) Magnetic
What type of storage medium would be most suitable for backing up a laptop?
a) Portable hard drive
b) Magnetic tape
c) SSD card
d) USB
Two Examples of Magnetic Storage Media
a) Portable hard disk drives
b) DVD ROM
c) Flash drive
d) internal hard disk drive
Two disadvantages of Internal hard disk drive:
a) Have many moving parts
b) More expensive than SSD
c) Can be easily damaged without correct shut
d) Data transfer rate/data access time is slower
down procedure
37.
than Optical Disks
One main advantage of Portable hard disk drive compared to internal hard disk:
a) easy to move and transfer data/files from one b) More stronger and durable compared to
desktop system to another
c) is Cheaper than internal HDD
internal HDD
d) Where Operating system is stored and is
essential part of desktop computers
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One best use of Magnetic Tapes:
a) Main backing storage device used by all
computers to store
c) Used mostly for Audio data
b) This device connects to the computer using
the USB Port.
d) Used by large organization for long term
archiving data
39.
Two disadvantages of Magnetic Tapes
a) Have many moving parts like HDD
b) Can be easily damaged if dropped
c) Affected by magnetic field
d) Very slow data access times
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What type of device is this?
a) Optical
b) Magnetic
c) Flash
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Internal Hard Drives are...
a) Portable
b) Inside a computer
c) Outside the computer case
d) Inside an enclosure
What type of Hard Drive is outside the computer in a portable enclosure?
a) Internal Hard Drive
b) External Hard Drive
c) Hard Disk Drive
d) Solid State Drive
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A thick magnetic disk that consists of several aluminum platters, each of which requires a
read/write head for each side.
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a) HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
b) CPU (Central Processing Unit)
c) SSD (Solid State Drive)
d) DHD (Disk Hard Drive)
What is the disadvantage of using magnetic storage devices?
a) to make the copy of original data to in case
you lose your original data.
c) it is a disk with bumps can be read by laser
b) Because it uses blue lasers which have
shorter wavelengths.
d) They can be easily affected by magnetic
fields.
45.
To access information on a storage medium
a) Restore
b) Read
c) Upload
d) Load
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