devry comp 129 week 4 quiz

(TCO 6) A double-sided, dual-layer DVD can hold ____ GB.

4.7

8.5

9.4

17

Question 2. Question :

(TCO 6) Compact disks, DVDs, and Blue-ray disks are examples of ________.

optical storage

solid state storage

magnectic storage

electro storage

Question 3. Question :

(TCO 6) __________ is a set of standards used to represent music in a digital format storing each note played by each instrument individually.

MP3

MIDI

JPEG

MP4

Question 4. Question :

(TCO 6) CD drives are available with all of these interfaces except ______.

EIDE

Firewire

a parallel port

a USB port

CORRECT All of the above are possible.

Question 5. Question :

(TCO 6) A _____ is used to provide fault-tolerance to a system.

CD drive

hardware RAID

removable drive

tape drive

Question 6. Question :

(TCO 6) What is the name of the bus used to support high-speed video?

ISA

USB

VGA

PCI-E

Question 7. Question :

(TCO 6) A _____ is a USB device replacing floppies as a means of transporting data from one computer to another.

ZIP disk

JumpDrive

SuperDisk

Microdrive

:

Question 8. Question :

(TCO 5) The connector on the rear of a PC that looks similar to a telephone jack but has eight pins is used for a _____.

network connection

video connection

printer connection

None of the above

Question 9. Question :

(TCO 5) In serial communications, data is sent _____.

one bit at a time

eight bits at a time

sixteen bits at a time

depending on bus width

Question 10. Question :

(TCO 5) Some storage devices use memory chips to store data instead of spinning disks. Examples include which of the following?

Hard drives, jump drives, CD drives

Jump drives, CD drives, Flash memory cards

CD drives, Flash memory cards, floppy drives

SSD, jump drives, Flash memory cards