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Preservation Week 2015 Quiz from the State Archives and State Library of North Carolina
Q.1
What are the key environmental factors that place collections at risk?
Light
Pollutants
Heat
Moisture
All the above
Q.2
When CDs first went on the market, sellers often claimed that the disks could last up to 200 years. Today, experts estimate that a CD will last how long if left on the shelf?
50-75 years
30-50 years
10-30 years
5-10 years
Q.3
Roughly, what percentage of cultural institutions need additional conservation/ preservation training for their staff and volunteers?
10%
25%
50%
70%
Q.4
Which of the following outdated digital media is NOT in the picture below?
8-track cartridge (produced mid 1960s – early 1980s for music recording and playback)
5.25” floppy disk (produced 1976 – 1990s for data storage)
8” floppy disk (produced late 1960s – 1990s for data storage)
Compact cassette (produced early 1970s – late 1990s, for music recording and playback)
ZIP™ disk (produced 1994 – late 1990s, for data storage)
Q.5
True or False: Paper quality is affected by the materials it is produced from.
True.
False.
Q.6
What steps can you take to preserve your digital photographs?
Save the photographs in open, widely available formats like JPEG, TIFF, or PNG.
Back up several copies of your photographs to the cloud and/or media devices (like hard drives).
Create a system for naming your files (or file folders) so that you can easily browse photographs and not lose track of what you have.
Check your files periodically to make sure that you can still access them.
All of the above.
Q.7
True or False: A majority of collecting institutions, more than 80%, do not have a disaster plan in place that can executed by trained staff.
True.
False.
Q.8
What kind of computer can open the files on this 3.5” floppy disk from 1990?
Any modern Windows or Mac computer, as long as you buy an external floppy drive.
A Windows computer from around 1990 running MS-DOS and having a working floppy drive
A modern Windows computer with special hardware installed inside the computer, plus an external floppy drive, plus special software to emulate a 1990 computer.
There is no computer that can read the disk, because the insides of the disk have definitely deteriorated too much by now.
There’s no way to tell. You can’t be certain about whether the data has survived or what it will take to access the files until you start experimenting with different hardware and software.
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