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Chapter 2. Personal Computer Components—... > Self Test
Self Test
The following questions will help you measure your understanding of the material presented in this chapter. Read all of the choices carefully because there might be more than one correct answer. Choose all correct answers for each question.
Mass Storage Devices and Backup Media
| 1. | This is a component in a hard drive system that reads and writes data.
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| 2. | Name the rotating shaft to which a hard drive’s platters attach.
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| 3. | Which of the following is not an example of a magnetic mass storage device?
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| 4. | Name two common interfaces for external hard drives.
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| 5. | This DVD type stores 17.08 GB of data, or over eight hours of video.
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| 6. | This type of optical mass storage device was developed to read and write high-definition video.
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| 7. | This type of mass storage device, once found in nearly every PC, is now rarely installed in a new PC.
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| 8. | This feature indicates that a drive can be connected or disconnected without shutting down the system.
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| 9. | This magnetic mass storage device type stores data sequentially and has been primarily used as backup storage for servers.
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| 10. | This is a group of standards defining several schemes for using multiple identical hard drives, working together in an array with the goal of achieving either better performance or redundancy.
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