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1. Which one of the following is NOT the characteristic of secondary storage
device?
a) Less expensive
b) Slow
c) More storage
d) Fast
2. Find the odd man out?
a) Secondary storage
c) Main Memory

b) Back up storage
d) Auxiliary memory

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of secondary storage?

a) it is temporary
b) it is permanent
c) small volume
d) stored in different binary codes when compa red to main memory

4. CTD means
a) Cartridge Tape Drive
b) Controllable Tape Drive
c) Casual and Technically superior Drive
d) Constant Tape Drive

5. The capacity of a CTD is approximately?

a) 20 KB 60 KB
b) 20 MB 60 MB
c) 20 GB 60 GB
d) 20 TB 60 TB

6. DAT means?
a) Direct Audio Tape
c) Direct Auxiliary Technique

b) Digital Audio Tape

d) Digital Audio Technique

7. The capacity of a DAT is approximately?

a) 4 KB
b) 4 MB
c) 4 GB

d) 4 TB

8. Which one of the following is in ascending order?

a) Magnetic Tape, Cartridge Tape Drive, Digital Audio Tape
b) Cartridge Tape Drive, Magnetic Tape, Digital Audio Tape
c) Digital Audio Tape, Magnetic Tape, Cartridge Tape Drive
d) Cartridge Tape Drive, Digital Audio Tape, Magnetic Tape

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9. Which one of the following is NOT suitable for serial access?

a) Salary Processing
b) Credit Card Filling
c) Airline Ticket Booking
d) Interest calculation in a Bank
10. Which one of the following is suitable for serial access?
a) Balance in a savings Bank account
b) Airline Ticket Booking
c) Train Reservation
d) Salary Processing

11. Data transfer rate can becomputed as?

a) Tape Density Tape speed
b) Tape Density Tape speed
c) Tape Density + Tape speed
d) Tape Density Tape speed

12. CPI in the context of tape density is?

a) Consumer Price Index
b) Cost Per Inch
c) Characters Per Inch
d) Construction Per Inch

13. BPI in the context of tape density is?

a) Basic Price per Inch
b) Bits Per Inch
c) Bytes Per Inch
d) Bits Per Instrument

14. Tape speed is measured in?

a) Characters per second
c) Bytes per second

b) Bits per second

d) Inches per second

15. Normally for a magnetic tape the data transfer rate is in the range of ?
a) one hundred bytes per second b) one thousand bytes per second
c) one byte per second
d) one million bytes per second
16. Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of magnetic tape?
a) Unlimited storage
b) High data density
c) Direct access
d) Portable
17. Which one of the following is the limitation of magnetic tape?
a) Direct access
b) Limited storage
c) Portability
d) Must be stored in dust free environment
18. Which one of the following is congenial for storing a magnetic tape?
a) Airconditioning
b) Specks of dust
c) Uncontrolled humidity
d) Uncontrolled temperature

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19. If the tape density is 1600 BPI and tape speed is 200 inches per second.
calculate its data transfer rate?
a) 3200 bytes b) 32000 bytes
c) 320000 bytes
d) 3200000 bytes
20. If the data transfer rate is 80,000 characters and tape density is 800 CPI find
its speed?
a) 100 centimeters per second
b) 100 inches per second
c) 100 feet per second
d) 100 meters per second

4. a
12. c
20. b

5. b
13. c

6. b
14. d

7. c
15. d

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8. a
16. c

3. b
11.a
19.c

Answers :
1. d
2. c
9. c
10. d
17. d
18. a