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The set of all the tracks in the same relative position on the platter is referred to as a _________.


A) floppy disk
B) single-sided disk
C) sector
D) cylinder

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Adjacent tracks are separated by _________.


A) sectors
B) gaps
C) pits
D) heads

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A _________ drive is a memory device made with solid-state components that can be used as a replacement to a hard disk drive.

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A bit near the center of a rotating disk travels past a fixed point slower than a bit on the outside.

A) True
B) False

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A __________ disk is permanently mounted in the disk drive,such as the hard disk in a personal computer.


A) nonremovable
B) movable-head
C) double sided
D) removable

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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__________ is the standardized scheme for multiple-disk database design.


A) RAID
B) CAV
C) CLV
D) SSD

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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RAID level ________ has the highest disk overhead of all RAID types.


A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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The disadvantage of _________ is that the amount of data that can be stored on the long outer tracks is only the same as what can be stored on the short inner tracks.


A) SSD
B) CAV
C) ROM
D) CLV

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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RAID levels 4 through 6 make use of an __________ access technique that allows separate I / O requests to be satisfied in parallel.

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There are typically hundreds of sectors per track and they may be either fixed or variable lengths.

A) True
B) False

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SSD performance has a tendency to speed up as the device is used.

A) True
B) False

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False

Because data are striped in very small strips,RAID 3 cannot achieve very high data transfer rates.

A) True
B) False

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False

A removable disk can be removed and replaced with another disk.

A) True
B) False

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Data are recorded on and later retrieved from the disk via a conducting coil named the _________.

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Scanning information at the same rate by rotating the disk at a fixed speed is known as the _________.


A) constant angular velocity
B) magnetoresistive
C) rotational delay
D) constant linear velocity

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Data is organized on the platter in a concentric set of rings called ________.

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Magnetic disks are the foundation of external memory on virtually all computer systems.

A) True
B) False

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A _________ is a high-definition video disk that can store 25 Gbytes on a single layer on a single side.


A) DVD
B) DVD-R
C) DVD-RW
D) Blu-ray DVD

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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The _________ disk is a small,flexible platter and the least expensive type of disk.

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In most contemporary systems fixed-length sectors are used,with _________ bytes being the nearly universal sector size.


A) 64
B) 128
C) 256
D) 512

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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