How Much Do You Know About File Storage And Backup?
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A normal backup stores every file on the specified volume or partitions. The restore process requires a tape in a backup system. When you change a file, this bit is marked automatically, which means that the file needs to be backed up. This quiz is made to test your knowledge of Backups. So, let's try out this quiz. All the best!
- 1.Which of the following is no longer a viable backup device?
- A.
RAID
- B.
Floppy Disk
- C.
DAT tapes
- D.
Magneto Optical
- 2.What does RAID stand for?
- A.
Rapid Access Information Disks
- B.
Remote Area Indexed Disks
- C.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive disks
- D.
Read and Insert Data
- 3.Where would be an appropriate place to store a companies DAT tapes after backup?
- A.
In a car
- B.
In the Network office
- C.
In a fire retardant safe - off site
- D.
In the managers desk
- 4.A shop wishes to implement a new backup system. Which of the following factors will affect which storage device is used for the backups?
- A.
The volume that needs to be backed up
- B.
What time of night the backups will begin
- C.
How much money the shop takes in a day
- D.
What security system the shop have in place
- 5.For a large company that has a large information system which TWO factors will be most important when devising a backup strategy?
- A.
How many PCs the company has
- B.
How will the backups be tested and who will do this
- C.
How often the data on the system changes - how often the backups need to be done
- D.
The network managers experience
- 6.Why is it important to perform a back up often e.g. every day rather than every month?
- A.
It will make the system crash
- B.
It will cost more to back up monthly
- C.
The more time that there is between backups, the more you have to loose
- D.
Backing up often means that you can miss a backup and not worry
- 7.What does DAT stand for?
- A.
Digital Analogue Track
- B.
Doesn’t Always Transmit
- C.
Digital Audio Tape
- D.
Data And Tracks
- 8.Type of backup storage in which data is read in a sequence is classified as
- A.
Storage access
- B.
Permanent access
- C.
Direct access
- D.
Serial access
- 9.Type of storage disc which has magnetized directions to represent 1 or 0 is said to be
- A.
Bubble memory
- B.
Direct memory
- C.
Indirect Memory
- D.
Serial memory
- 10.Discs that stores data more effectively against dirt and on a given area of the disc are known as
- A.
Exchangeable discs
- B.
Non exchangeable discs
- C.
Timed discs
- D.
Bubble discs
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