Part 8 (Study Guide Module 8)

For CD-RW, the "RW" stand for what? 

• 1. required wiring

• 2. reworking wires

• 3. rewriteable

A _______ backup sometimes is called an archival backup. 

• 1. optical

• 2. creep

• 3. swift

• 4. full

A narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of the disk. 

• 1. track

• 2. street

• 3. sky

• 4. road

What type of backup is something called a partial backup? 

• 1. ecliptical

• 2. selective

• 3. roaches

• 4. fleas

With serial transfers, data is sent one bit at a time. What type of transfers send several bits at once? 

• 1. perpendicular

• 2. parallel

• 3. bisector

• 4. Compton

A USB drive is also called a...

• 1. toe drive

• 2. long drive

• 3. finger drive

• 4. thumb drive

Sometimes used in descriptions of a storage device's capabilities, instead of access time. 

• 1. transfer rate

• 2. transmission rate

• 3. transistor rate

• 4. transition rate

A land causes light to reflect, while a _______ absorbs light. 

• 1. smokies

• 2. pit

• 3. tape

• 4. everglades

The operating system marks bad ones as unusable when a disk is formatted. 

• 1. segments

• 2. sectors

• 3. sections

Optical disc that users can bread but not write on or erase. 

• 1. CD-RAM

• 2. CD-ROM

• 3. CD-RW