Chapter 5- Input, Output and Storage Devices

Question 1

Name three types of storage

Answer 1

Magnetic storage
Optical storage
Flash storage

Question 2

What is the most common form of a magnetic storage?

Answer 2

Hard disk drive

Question 3

What is the most common form of an optical storage?

Answer 3

CD
DVD
BLU-RAY

Question 4

What is an advantage of a Flash storage?

Answer 4

It is robust

Question 5

What does the term ‘robust’ mean?

Answer 5

It is hard to break

Question 6

What does HDD stand for and what is the function?

Answer 6

HDD— Hard Disk Drive

It is a common device that is used to store data

Question 7

What are the two different hard disk drive?

Answer 7

Internal and External hard drive

Question 8

Name three backing storage devices

Answer 8

CD-ROM
CD-R
HARD DISK DRIVE

Question 9

What is the best type of storage device and why?

Answer 9

Solid state device— “Solid State technology is used in:
Digital Cameras to store pictures
USB Pen Drives to store documents, pictures, audio and video, etc.
Modern desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, tablet PC’s, etc as a storage device
Solid State storage has many advantages: Lower power usage
Fast random access to data
Lightweight and portable
No moving parts so less chance of failing overtime (robust)

Question 10

The storage capacity of CD is usually measured in what?

Answer 10

MB

Question 11

The storage capacity of DVD is usually measured in what?

Answer 11

GB

Question 12

The storage capacity of Hard Disk Drive is usually measured in what?

Answer 12

TB

Question 13

What is the use of CD-R, CD-ROM and CD-RW?

Answer 13

CD-R — Write Data once
CD-ROM — Read Data only
CD-RW — Write and Re-write Data

Question 14

What does the graphics card do?

Answer 14

The graphics card is required in every computer to allow input, Processing and Output of high quality graphics