CHAPTER 5Units of Measure: Objective 1.5: Compare and contrast common units of measure
Technologists throw around a lot of metrics and, as an IT professional, it's crucial that you understand the common measures used for storage, network throughput, and processing speed. You'll need to know how to compare these metrics and determine the largest, smallest, fastest, and slowest values.
In this chapter, you'll learn everything you need to know about ITF+ objective 1.5, including the following topics:
- Storage unit
- Throughput unit
- Processing speed
MEASURING DATA STORAGE
You've probably heard that computers work with binary data, meaning data that is stored as simply 0s and 1s. Everything that happens inside a computer system uses combinations ...
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