Question

If you needed to store facts about information that you were collecting, you would store these facts in the ___.

What is hardware?

What replicates and spreads itself?

Answer 1

Answer a:
If you needed to store facts about information that you were collecting, you would store these facts in the Data dictionary
A Data Discitionary, also known as 'metadata repository' - contains the granular records about the objects in the database eg, ownership, relationship with other objects etc...

Answer b:
Computer Hardware is the generic term used for physical parts of a computer like CPU, monitors/display, keyboard, memory card, graphic card, storage unit (HDD/SSD), motherboard, mouse etc.
For a computer to work, it needs both the Hardware and the software


Answer c:
What replicates and spreads itself? - Computer Worm
Computer Worm is a kind of (computer) virus that are intentionally designed to replicate itself and spread to other computers by exploiting the security vulnerabilities of the targeted system.
A very famous example of this is Stuxnet , which was designed to target the SCADA industrial systems even in the absence of computer networks.