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A storage medium is also called primary storage.

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B) False

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COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Optical discs store items by using microscopic ______ (indentations) and ______ (flat areas) .

A) dents/mesas
B) bumps/smooths
C) pits/lands
D) holes/levels

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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List and describe the four main backup methods. What is the name of a backup service used only by large enterprises?

You should not remove a portable flash memory storage while it is in use because the operating system may still be accessing the device.

Hard disks, SSDs, and memory cards are all types of ______ devices.

Outsourcing is when an enterprise offloads storage management to an outside organization or cloud storage provider.

Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies have faced new requirements for what?

List advantages and disadvantages of SSDs over hard disks. Which should you use, and why?

In an optical disc, the absence of light is read as binary digit 1.

Hard disks are read/write storage media.

Manufacturers measure optical disc drives relative to the original speed, using an X to denote a transfer rate of ______ KBps.

A(n) ______ is a virtual perimeter or boundary that disables certain apps or cameras in secure areas.

A(n) ______ backup sometimes is called a partial backup.

Because the user accesses files on cloud storage through a browser using an app from the storage provider, the actual media on which the files are stored are transparent to the user.

For CD-RW, the "RW" stands for ______.

Desktops and traditional laptops usually have an optical disc drive.

Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive are examples of ______ storage.

Items stored in RAM remain intact even when you turn off a computer or mobile device.

A(n) ______ backup sometimes is called an archival backup.

The simplest RAID storage design writes data on two drives at the same time and is called ______.