Storage and File Structures

These sets of MCQs are based on a database which consists of a huge amount of data. The data is grouped within a table in RDBMS, and each table have related records in which user can see that the data is stored in form of tables, but in actual this huge amount of data is stored in physical memory in form of files.

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Which of the following is a physical storage media?

Tape Storage Optical Storage Flash memory All of the mentioned

The _________ is the fastest and most costly form of storage, which is relatively small; its use is managed by the computer system hardware.

Cache Disk Main memory Flash memory

Which of the following stores several gigabytes of data but usually lost when power failure?

Flash memory Disk Main memory Secondary memory

__________ is increasingly being used in server systems to improve performance by caching frequently used data, since it provides faster access than disk, with larger storage capacity than main memory.

Flash memory Disk Main memory Secondary memory

Which is the cheapest memory device in terms of costs/ bit?

Semiconductor memory Magnetic disks Compact disks Magnetic tapes

The primary medium for the long-term online storage of data is the __________ where the entire database is stored on magnetic disk.

Semiconductor memory Magnetic disks Compact disks Magnetic tapes

Optical disk _______ systems contain a few drives and numerous disks that can be loaded into one of the drives automatically (by a robot arm) on demand.

Tape Storage Jukebox Flash memory All of the mentioned

There are “record-once” versions of the compact disk and digital video disk, which can be written only once; such disks are also called __________ disks.

Write-once, read-many (WORM) CD-R DVD-W CD-ROM

Tape storage is referred to as __________ storage.

Direct-access Random-access Sequential-access All of the mentioned

The flash memory storage used are,

NOR Flash

OR Flash

AND Flash

All of the mentioned

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Storage and File Structures
Questions: 10
Contributed by:
Steve