1. . Secondary storage devices are used for:
(A) Temporary data storage
(B) Permanent data storage
(C) CPU instruction storage
(D) Registers
2. . Which of the following is a secondary storage device?
(A) RAM
(B) Hard Disk Drive
(C) CPU Cache
(D) ROM
3. . The main advantage of secondary storage over primary storage is:
(A) Faster access
(B) Higher capacity
(C) Both B and C
(D) Lower cost per bit
4. . Which of the following is a magnetic storage device?
(A) SSD
(B) Hard Disk Drive
(C) Optical Disk
(D) Flash Drive
5. . An optical storage device uses:
(A) Light or laser
(B) Magnetic fields
(C) Electrical charge
(D) Mechanical motion
6. . SSD stands for:
(A) Solid State Device
(B) Solid State Disk
(C) Secondary Storage Device
(D) System Storage Disk
7. . Which storage device has no moving parts and faster access time?
(A) Hard Disk Drive
(B) SSD
(C) Optical Disk
(D) Magnetic Tape
8. . The access method of a hard disk is:
(A) Sequential access
(B) Random access
(C) Both B and C
(D) Direct access
9. . Magnetic tape is primarily used for:
(A) High-speed processing
(B) Main memory
(C) Backup and archival
(D) CPU registers
10. . RAID stands for:
(A) Reliable Array of Integrated Disks
(B) Random Access of Internal Data
(C) Read And Input Device
(D) Redundant Array of Independent Disks
11. . Which RAID level provides both mirroring and striping?
(A) RAID 0
(B) RAID 10
(C) RAID 5
(D) RAID 1
12. . Disk scheduling algorithms are used to:
(A) Schedule CPU
(B) Manage memory
(C) Schedule I/O requests to disk
(D) Manage files
13. . FCFS disk scheduling stands for:
(A) Fast CPU First Scheduling
(B) First Come First Serve
(C) File Control For Storage
(D) First Cache First Serve
14. . SSTF disk scheduling stands for:
(A) Simple Storage Task First
(B) Sequential Storage Transfer File
(C) Shortest Seek Time First
(D) Smallest Size Transfer First
15. . C-SCAN disk scheduling:
(A) Uses shortest seek time
(B) Services requests sequentially
(C) Services requests in circular manner with uniform wait time
(D) Ignores disk requests
16. . Disk fragmentation occurs when:
(A) Disk space is continuous
(B) Free space is scattered in small blocks
(C) Disk is formatted
(D) CPU is idle
17. . Defragmentation is used to:
(A) Increase CPU speed
(B) Delete files
(C) Reorganize scattered disk blocks
(D) Manage memory
18. . Optical disks can be:
(A) Read-Only
(B) Write-Once Read-Many
(C) Rewritable
(D) All of the above
19. . Cache memory in storage systems is used to:
(A) Temporarily store frequently accessed data
(B) Store all files permanently
(C) Increase secondary storage capacity
(D) Schedule CPU
20. . The main goal of secondary storage management is to:
(A) Ensure efficient, reliable, and permanent data storage
(B) Increase CPU speed
(C) Manage registers
(D) Allocate memory