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Which of the following is not true of a magnetic disk?

a.

It is expensive relative to magnetic tape

b.

It provides only sequential access to stored data

c.

Users can easily update records by writing over the old data

d.

It does not provide an automatic audit trail

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Answer: (b).It provides only sequential access to stored data

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