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A student stores their schoolwork on secondary storage devices. They store their schoolwork on their home computer and on cloud storage.
February/March 2026 Paper 12
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5(a)Memory StorageEasy2 marks
Give two characteristics of secondary storage.
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5(b)Memory StorageMedium5 marks
The home computer has a magnetic storage device, and the cloud storage uses solid‑state (flash memory) storage.
Complete the description of how magnetic hard disk drives and solid‑state drives (SSD) read data.
Use terms from the list. Not all terms need to be used. You should only use a term once.
A hard disk has several platters. Each platter is split into tracks and . To read data, the read/write head moves over the platters to the position where data starts. The indicates if the data is a 1 or a 0.
A solid‑state drive uses NAND gates or . It is made of transistors that work as floating gates and gates. The gates control the of electrons to memory cells.
5(c)(i)Cloud Computing Cloud Storage VirtualisationMedium1 mark
State what is meant by cloud storage.
5(c)(ii)Cloud Computing Cloud Storage VirtualisationMedium2 marks
Explain the advantages to the student of storing their data on cloud storage instead of storing the data locally on their home computer.
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5(c)(iii)Cloud Computing Cloud Storage VirtualisationMedium2 marks
Explain the advantages to the student of storing their data locally on their home computer instead of using cloud storage.
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