Multiple choice

What is secondary storage?

  1. Quickly accessed by the CPU?

  2. Not directly accessed by the CPU

  3. External to the computer

  4. None of the above
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Secondary storage devices, such as hard drives and solid-state drives, are non-volatile storage media that are not directly accessed by the CPU. Instead, data must first be copied from secondary storage into primary storage (RAM) before the CPU can read or execute it.

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