Computer Fundamental Miscellaneous - Study Mode

[#346] You can protect a floppy disk.
Correct Answer

(B) Write

Explanation

Solution: Write protection is one of the helpful safety feature that is in built in 3.5 inch Floppy Disks. In order to ensure that nobody copies files to the 3.5 inch Floppy Disk or delete a file/s from Floppy disk, the 3.5 inch Floppy disk will be write protected.

[#347] Information on a hard disk is usually backed-up using a?
Correct Answer

(A) CD-ROM

Explanation

Solution: Information on a hard disk is usually backed-up using a CD-ROM.

[#348] Magnetic storage devices can represent binary 0 by the absence of?
Correct Answer

(B) Magnetic tape

Explanation

Solution: Magnetic storage devices can represent binary 0 by the absence of Magnetic tape.

[#349] Magnetic tape is a?
Correct Answer

(D) Serial access medium

Explanation

Solution: Most widely used secondary storage devices are magnetic tapes, magnetic disks and floppy disks. It is not directly accessible by the CPU. Computer usually uses its input / output channels to access secondary storage and transfers the desired data using intermediate are a in primary storage.

[#350] Which storage device has the largest capacity in MB's?
Correct Answer

(B) A CD-ROM

Explanation

Solution: Storage Capacity of Floppy Disc = 1.44 Megabytes.
Storage Capacity of CD-ROM = 650 Megabytes (Approx.).