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1.1 Components of a computer and their uses
Quick questions on Input, output and storage devices: magnetic, optical, solid-state, RAM, ROM, virtual storage - OCR A-Level Computer Science H446
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State one characteristic that makes solid-state storage more suitable than a hard disk drive for a laptop. [1 mark]
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Explain why ROM rather than RAM is used to store the bootstrap. [2 marks]
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State what virtual storage allows a computer to do. [1 mark]
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