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010-160 · Question #28
010-160 Question #28: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is C: On a removable SD card which is put into the Raspberry Pi.. The Raspberry Pi boots its operating system from a removable microSD card, which serves as its primary storage medium.
Question
Where is the operating system of a Raspberry Pi stored?
Options
- AOn the master device attached to the Raspberry Pi's IDE bus.
- BOn a read only partition on the Raspberry Pi's firmware, next to the BIOS.
- COn a removable SD card which is put into the Raspberry Pi.
- DOn a Linux extension module connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.
- EOn rewritable flash storage which is built into the Raspberry Pi.
Explanation
The Raspberry Pi boots its operating system from a removable microSD card, which serves as its primary storage medium.
Common mistakes.
- A. The Raspberry Pi does not have an IDE bus; it uses GPIO, USB, and CSI/DSI interfaces, none of which function as IDE storage.
- B. The Raspberry Pi has a small onboard EEPROM/firmware chip for the bootloader stage but the full OS is not stored there; it has no BIOS partition containing the OS.
- D. GPIO pins are a general-purpose input/output interface for connecting sensors and peripherals, not a storage medium for an operating system.
- E. Standard Raspberry Pi models do not include built-in rewritable eMMC flash storage; that is a feature found on the Compute Module variants, not the standard Pi boards.
Concept tested. Raspberry Pi operating system storage medium
Reference. https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html
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