ITE 221 EXAM 1 LATEST UPDATE WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED

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ITE 221 EXAM 1 LATEST UPDATE 2026-2027 WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED
Question: The ____ is the device or substance that actually holds data.




a. storage device


b. storage medium


c. storage method


d. storage speed - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b




Question: ____ is the most important characteristic differentiating primary and secondary

storage.




a. Capacity


b. Density


c. Transfer rate




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d. Speed - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d




Question: A ____ is a CPU cycle spent waiting for access to an instruction or data.




a. wait state


b. hold state


c. purge state


d. clock state - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a




Question: ____ in the CPU are storage locations for instructions and data.




a. ALUs


b. Shifters


c. Registers


d. Controllers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c




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Question: Storage device speed is called ____.




a. retrieval time


b. access time


c. movement time


d. fetch time - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b




Question: Access times for secondary storage devices are typically expressed in ____.




a. milliseconds


b. exoseconds


c. nanoseconds


d. picoseconds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a




Question: ____ is a generic term for describing secondary storage data transfer units.




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a. Sector


b. Wafer


c. Cluster


d. Block - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d




Question: A storage device or medium is ____ if it holds data without loss over long periods.




a. volatile


b. dynamic


c. nonvolatile


d. Archival - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c




Question: A storage device or medium is ____ if it can't hold data reliably for long periods.




a. nonvolatile


b. volatile


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