Operating System Multiple Choice Questions on “Tertiary Storage”.
1. Tertiary storage is built with ____________
a) a lot of money
b) unremovable media
c) removable media
d) secondary storage
Answer: c
2. Floppy disks are examples of ____________
a) primary storage
b) secondary storage
c) tertiary storage
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: c
3. What is a magneto-optic disk?
a) primary storage
b) secondary storage
c) removable disk
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: c
4. The magneto-optic head flies ___________ the disk surface than a magnetic disk head does.
a) much farther from
b) much closer to
c) at the same distance as
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: a
5. Optical disks ______ magnetism.
a) use
b) do not use
c) may use
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: b
6. The phase change disk is coated with a material that can freeze into either _______ or ________ state.
a) crystalline, solid
b) ice, amorphous
c) crystalline, liquid
d) crystalline, amorphous
Answer: d
7. WORM stands for ____________
a) write only, read mandatory
b) write once, read many times
c) write only once, read multiple
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: b
8. A tape holds _______ data than optical or magnetic disk cartridge.
a) lesser
b) more
c) much lesser
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: b
9. Random access to tape is _______ a disk seek.
a) much slower than
b) much faster than
c) comparable to
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: a
10. A typical tape drive is ________ a typical disk drive.
a) more expensive than
b) cheaper than
c) of the same cost as
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: a
11. The surface area of tape is ________ the surface area of a disk.
a) much lesser than
b) much larger than
c) equal to
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: b