Ch. 6 Computer Science

AMD is the leading manufacturer of which of the following kinds of processors, which have an internal design similar to Intel processors, perform the same functions, can be as powerful, but often are less expensive?

The faster the clock speed, the more of these the processor can execute per second. What are they?

Which of the following is the component of the processor that performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations?

Which of the following is a register function?

Which of the following should you have if you plan to connect your computer or mobile device to a wired computer network?

Which kind of tablet positions the case below a keyboard, providing functionality similar to that of a laptop?

Which of the following are small high-speed storage locations contained by the processor that temporarily hold data and instructions?

Which of the following is the component of the system unit that converts the wall outlet AC power into the DC power a computer requires?

Which of the following is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer?

The accompanying figure shows which of the following kinds of modules, which are small circuit boards where RAM chips usually reside, being inserted into the motherboard?

Some computer and chip manufacturers use which of the following terms to refer to a personal computer processor chip?

Which of the following is an alternate term for an adapter card?

Which of the following consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, data needed by those instructions, and the results of processed data (information)?

which kind of tablet typically does not include a physical keyboard and puts the case behind the display?

Which of the following is an application that incorporates data from multiple providers into a new application?

Which of the following adapter cards connects to musical instruments?

Current processors include advanced transfer cache, a type of cache built directly on a processor chip. Which type of cache is this?

Which of the following interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer?

Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM) chips are even faster than SDRAM chips because which of the following is true?

On which of the following does battery life depend?

Within the circuitry of a computer, each channel along which bits transfer allows the various devices both inside and attached to the system unit to communicate with each other. What are these channels, shown in the accompanying figure, called?

Which of the following determines the number of bits that the computer can transmit at one time?

What is the unit of measurement for the clock speed for the channel shown in the accompanying figure?

Which of the following is the main circuit board of the system unit?

Which of the following processors is a single chip with two or more separate processor cores?

Which of the following allows the processor to communicate with peripheral devices?

Which of the following modules is a removable flash memory device that adds memory, communications, multimedia, security, and storage capabilities to computers?

Which of the following is a kind of ROM chip that contains permanently written data, instructions, or information that is recorded when the chip is manufactured?

Which of the following circuits contains many microscopic pathways capable of carrying electrical current?

Which of the following is the most common type of volatile memory?

Which of the following types of memory modules, such as that shown in the accompanying figure, positions the pins on opposite sides of the circuit board so they do not connect and thus form two sets of contacts?

what on the motherboard holds the memory modules?

One gigahertz (GHz) equals how many ticks of the system clock per second?

Which of the following refers to an environment of servers that house and provide access to resources users access via the Internet?

automatically configures cards

Which of the following is another term for the system unit?

cache separate from processing chip

The role of memory to store both data and programs is known as which of the following concepts?