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Past Paper questions- Chapter 3- Storage devices

1. Complete the sentences, using the most appropriate item from the list.

a Blu-ray disc a compact disc a hard disk a magnetic tape

a memory card a pen drive a processor RAM
ROM a solid state drive
a) Optical storage medium that is often used to store HD movies is called

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b) Internal memory where the data cannot be changed is called

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c) Magnetic medium which can only be used for serial access is called

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d) Internal memory that is volatile is called

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2. Complete the following sentences, using items from the list below.

a bar code reader a chip reader a laser a magnetic ink character reader

a microphone a retina scanner a printer a PIN pad a touch pad

a) A device that reads black and white lines on a product is called

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b) A device used to keep your bank information safe when paying with credit cards

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c) A device which is used to read the data from the bottom of bank cheques is called

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d) An input device used to input the biometric details of the eye is called

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3. Tick whether the following devices are input, output or backing storage.

input (✓) output (✓) backing storage (✓)

Motor

CD-R

Web cam

Printer

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4. Laptop computers are often equipped with Solid State Drives (SSD) or Hard Disk Drives (HDD).

(a) Give three advantages of SSD compared to HDD.

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5. A student wishes to store data on an optical storage medium. List two optical media and give one

advantage and one disadvantage of using optical media when compared with fixed hard discs.

Optical storage medium 1:

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Optical storage medium 2:

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6. Modern laptop computers tend to use external solid state storage rather than external optical storage.

Compare and contrast the use of solid state storage with the use of optical storage to store data.

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7. There are two types of storage within a computer, internal memory and backing storage. Discuss the

differences between internal memory and backing storage.

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