Question

Tertiary storage is built with :

(a) a lot of money

(b) unremovable media

(c) removable media

(d) secondary storage

This question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

The above asked question is from Tertiary Storage topic in section Storage and File Structures of Database Management

Answer 1

The correct answer is (c) removable media

The explanation is: Tertiary storage involves a robotic mechanism which will mount (insert) and dismount removable mass storage media into a storage device according to the system’s demands; this data is often copied to secondary storage before use.