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An input device that is often used for electronic signatures is called a ________.
Select one:
a. electronic pad
b. electronic screen
c. electronic pen
d. magnetic pen
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Partitions look and act like independent disk drives and are sometimes referred to as _______.
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a. logical floppies
b. cylinder drives
c. logical drives
d. partition sectors
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In a disk system, data movement time is the time it takes to ______________.
Select one:
a. transfer data between the disk and RAM.
b. position the heads over the proper track.
c. convert the data from CPU code into the proper code for the type of disk.
d. rotate the disk to the proper sector.
e. It includes all of the above.
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Large companies often use a ______________, a high-performance device that is individually connected
to a network to provide storage for the computers connected to that network.
Select one:
a. storage server
b. holographic drive
c. holographic server
d. data warehouse
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Di Digital still cameras typically use ___________ for storage, in the form of either removable cards or built-
in chips.
Select one:
a. flash memory
b. RAM memory
c. ROM memory
d.
cache memory
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Retail stores use ________ to determine the price of a purchased product.
Select one:
a. bar code readers
b. optical mark readers
c. optical character recognition
d. RFID readers
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Magnetic disks represent bits by _______________.
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a. Burning pits onto the recording surface
b. Using pixels to represent 0s and 1s
c. aligning magnetic particles
d. Using positive and negative voltage
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The device on the motherboard that sends image data to the monitor is the
_________ card.
Select one:
a. display
b. video
c. picture
d. image
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A storage medium is inserted into the appropriate ___________ to be read from or written to.
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a. storage processor
b. bay
c. storage memory
d. storage device
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A __________ is the smallest colorable area in an electronic image.
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a. bit
b. dot
c. dpi
d. pixel
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________ are used to input data about a person into a computer system so that the individual can be
identified based on a particular unique physiological characteristic.
Select one:
a. Biometric readers
b. biological scanners
c. MICR readers
d. Physiology readers
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All storage systems involve two parts: the storage device and the ______________.
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a. storage software
b. storage memory
c. storage processor
d. storage media
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The physical size of a monitor s screen is measured:
Select one:
a. by multiplying the width by the height of the screen.
b. by adding the width and the height of the screen.
c. diagonally across the screen
d. as the circumference of the screen.
e. none of the above
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Unlike other storage systems, ________ storage systems have no moving parts.
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a. flash
b. magnetic
c. optical
d. electrical
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Printer speed is typically measured in ____.
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a. pages per minute
b. characters per minute
c. lines per minute
d. characters per second
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CDs have a storage capacity of ___________.
Select one:
a. 1.44 MB
b. 650 or 700 MB
c. 100 or 250 MB
d. 4.7 to 17 GB
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With magnetic disks, the circular rings onto which data is stored are called _________.
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a. packs
b. sectors
c. clusters
d. tracks
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With a ________, the user touches the screen with his or her finger to select commands or otherwise
provide input to the computer with which it is being used.
Select one:
a. touch screen
b. graphics tablet
c. finger capture device
d. biometric screen
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Solid State drives use _____________ memory.
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a. optical
b. electrical
c. magnetic
d. flash
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Which of the following typically contains the most storage capacity?
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a. hard disk
b. flash drive
c. CD
d. DVD
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Which is NOT one of the three common secondary storage technologies.
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a. optical
b. electrical
c. magnetic
d. flash
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To keep files organized, users often store related documents in ___________ located on the storage
medium.
Select one:
a. indexes
b. RAM
c. folders
d. cache
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sp ________ input data from special forms to score or tally exams, questionnaires, ballots, and so forth.
Select one:
a. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Devices
b. Optical mark readers (OMRs)
c. Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) Readers
d. RFID readers
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A ____________, which looks similar to a car s gearshift, is most often used with computer games.
Select one:
a. joystick
b. trackball
c. stylus
d. graphics tablet
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A __________ is an optical code that represents data with bars of varying widths.
Select one:
a. digital code
b. character code
c. bar table
d. barcode
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