What is a Hard Disk ?

• Hard disks are most popular secondary storage device.
• It supports the direct access of the data.
• It’s a thin magnetic plate which is made of metal n both side coated with magnetic material.
• The disk is divided in many tracks & the data is store in both side of the disk.
• The disk pack consists of multiple disk plates.
• The disk drive pack has a separate read/write head for each disk surface.
• The disk drive consists of motor to rotate the disk pack about its axis at a speedof about 5400 revolution per minute.
• The drive also has a set of magnetic heads mounted on arms.
• The arm assembly is capable of moving in & out in radial direction.
• The hard disk drive has become the most indispensable secondary storage devicein micro-computers.
• It is fast and speeds of less than 10 (ms) milliseconds are achievable.
• Storage capacity is large and it is not uncommon for micro-computers.

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Basic Computer Questions

Q : The main system board of the computer is called ____.
(A) Motherboard
(B) Processor
(C) Microchip
(D) None of these

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Q : Which of the following system components is the brain of a computer?
(A) Circuit board
(B) CPU
(C) Memory
(D) Network card

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : What is the built-in permanent memory in a computer called?
(A) RAM
(B) ROM
(C) CPU
(D) CD-ROM

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : Which of the following is the full form of NTFS?
(A) New Tree File system
(B) New Technology file system
(C) New Table file system
(D) Both B and C

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : Which of the following is not a hardware processing chip ?
(A) Processing chip
(B) printer
(C) mouse
(D) Java

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Answer ⇒ { B }

 
Q : The monitor of a computer is-
(A) storage device
(B) processing device
(C) input device
(D) output device

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Answer ⇒ { D }

 
Q : Which protocol does Ping use?
(A) TCP
(B) ARP
(C) ICMP
(D) BootP
(E) None of these

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Answer ⇒ { C }

 
Q : If you wish to extend the length of the network without having the signal degrade, you would use a ___.
(A) Gateway
(B) Router
(C) Modem
(D) Repeater
(E) Resonator

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Answer ⇒ { D }

 
Q : A series of instructions that tells a computer what to do and how to do it is called a ______.
(A) program
(B) command
(C) user response
(D) processor
(E) None of these

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Answer ⇒ { A }

 
Q : Verification of a login name and password is known as_____.
(A) Configuration
(B) Accessibility
(C) Authentication
(D) logging in
(E) None of these
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