Apex Design Studio is an architectural firm with three regional branches. The company currently backs up its high-resolution 3D CAD blueprints, Building Information Modelling (BIM) files, and client billing records to physical Magnetic Tape (LTO) cartridges, which are stored in a physical safe at their main office. The IT director is proposing to migrate all backup operations to a centralized cloud archive storage service instead.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to Apex Design Studio of migrating their backup system from physical magnetic tape to cloud storage.
76 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Hardware, covering Von Neumann architecture and FDE cycle, Secondary storage devices, and Embedded systems. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.