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  1. Which of the following is a physical storage media ?
  2. A.
    Tape Storage
    B.
    Optical Storage
    C.
    Flash memory
    D.
    All of the mentioned

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  3. The _________ is the fastest and most costly form of storage, which is relatively small; its use is managed by the computer system hardware.
  4. A.
    Cache
    B.
    Disk
    C.
    Main memory
    D.
    Flash memory

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  5. Which of the following stores several gigabytes of data but usually lost when power failure?
  6. A.
    Flash memory
    B.
    Disk
    C.
    Main memory
    D.
    Secondary memory

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  7. The flash memory storage used are
  8. A.
    NOR Flash
    B.
    OR Flash
    C.
    AND Flash
    D.
    All of the mentioned

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  9. __________ is increasingly being used in server systems to improve performance by caching frequently used data, since it provides faster access than disk, with larger storage capacity than main memory.
  10. A.
    Flash memory
    B.
    Disk
    C.
    Main memory
    D.
    Secondary memory

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  11. Which is the cheapest memory device in terms of costs/bit ?
  12. A.
    Semiconductor memory
    B.
    Magnetic disks
    C.
    Compact disks
    D.
    Magnetic tapes

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  13. The primary medium for the long-term online storage of data is the __________ where the entire database is stored on magnetic disk.
  14. A.
    Semiconductor memory
    B.
    Magnetic disks
    C.
    Compact disks
    D.
    Magnetic tapes

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  15. Optical disk _______ systems contain a few drives and numerous disks that can be loaded into one of the drives automatically (by a robot arm) on demand.
  16. A.
    Tape Storage
    B.
    Jukebox
    C.
    Flash memory
    D.
    All of the mentioned

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  17. There are "record-once versions of compact disk and digital video disk, which can be written only once; such disks are also called __________ disks.
  18. A.
    Write-once, read-many (WORM)
    B.
    CD-R
    C.
    DVD-W
    D.
    CD-ROM

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  19. Tape storage is referred to as __________ storage.
  20. A.
    Direct-access
    B.
    Random-access
    C.
    Sequential-access
    D.
    All of the mentioned

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