Autumn Term 1 Mr White

Question 1

Are storage and memory the same thing?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

What are the three types of memory?

Answer 2

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary

Question 3

What is primary memory?

Answer 3

Close to computer
easy access.
Small
fast
comparatively expensieve

Question 4

What does secondary memory contain?

Answer 4

Holds OS + data not in use

Question 5

What does tertiary memory contain?

Answer 5

Backups
archiving lots of data
slow, large and cheap

Question 6

Give some examples of primary memory

Answer 6

RAM, ROM, registers, cache

Question 7

Give some examples of secondary memory

Answer 7

SSD, HDD, flash drive, CD

Question 8

What is RAM?

Answer 8

fast access, volatile. instructions+programs in use

Question 9

What is ROM?

Answer 9

can’t be changed
contains essential information for the computer to operate (Bootstrap, BIOS, POST)

Question 10

What is POST?

Answer 10

Power On System Test

Question 11

What does Bootstrap do?

Answer 11

Bootstrap pulls the OS into RAM

Question 12

What is BIOS?

Answer 12

Basic Input and Output System

Question 13

What is virtual storage?

Answer 13

using 2dary storage
when RAM’s full
Much slower than other memory types, capacity set by OS

Question 14

What are the three main types of secondary storage?

Answer 14

Magnetic, flash/solid state and optical

Question 15

What are the six factors for choosing different types of storage?

Answer 15

cost per GB
capacity
portability
speed
durability
resilience

Question 16

What are the characteristics of magnetic storage?

Answer 16

Cheap, not resilient or portable. Relatively fast with large amounts of storage

Question 17

What are the charactertistics of SS?

Answer 17

portable, resilient, fast, large, expensieve

Question 18

What are the characteristics of optical storage?

Answer 18

not resilient. small amounts of storage, portable