What is Floppy Disk ? Advantages or Disadvantages of Floppy Disk 

What is Floppy Disk ?

• Floppy disks were introduced by IBM in 1972.
• A floppy disk is a round, flat piece of flexible plastic which is coated with magnetic oxide.
• It is encased in square plastic cover that gives protection to the disk.
• They are also referred as diskettes.
• The data is read and write in floppy disk is using a device called FLOPPY DISC DRIVE.
• The long lit is provided for the read / writes head to access the disk.
• A hub in the centre is used for mounting the disk drive.
• A hole is used to sense index marking.
• The floppy disks are available in two sizes.
  o 5 ¼ inch (1.2 MB)
  o 3 ½ inch (1.44 MB)

Floppy Disk Advantages:

• Cheap in cost.
• Convenient offline storage for small computer users.

Floppy Disk Disadvantages;

• Low storage capacity.
• A floppy disk drive device is required to use read/write data.

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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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