Chapter 6: Understanding And Assessing Hardware

The rule of thumb that predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every two years is called the ______ Law

Which of the following is the lightest computer? Laptop Ultrabook Tablet Desktop

The processor market for desktop and laptop computers is dominated by:

Which of the following does not determine the CPUs processing power? clock speed number of cores amount of cache memory speed of the motherboard

Which of the following activities is carried out by the ALU?

All of the following are part of the machine cycle EXCEPT fetch encode execute store

The CPU consists of which two parts?

The control unit is one component of the ____

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called

Cache memory levels are based on proximity to

What provides high-speed information processing by enabling a new set of instructions to start before the previous set is finished?

Some of the cache memory of a CPU is

RAM is an example of what storage?

The amount of Ram storage is measured in

Windows uses a memory-management technique known as ______ to monitor which applications you use most frequently and then preloads them into your system memory

When referring to hard drives, access time is measured in

A ____ uses electronic memory and has no motors or moving parts

How do optical discs store data?

Which of the following is NOT a storage option? optical drive random access memory (RAM) internal hard drive SSD

The ___ has the largest capacity of any storage device

Which of the following ports is NOT considered to exclusively a video port? HDMI DVI USB displayport

To speed up the display of graphics, an ___ is integrated into some video ports

A ___ enables the computer to drive the speaker system

How many channels are in a Dolby 7.1 surround sound system?

Running the Disk Defragmenter utility will

Running the Disk Cleanup Utility is a quick way to

To remove all the changes made to your system, the Windows ___ utility returns your computer to the state it was it in when it came from the factory

Which statement pertaining to system reliability is false

To securely erase data, the U.S Department of Defense suggests that data be

TRUE/FALSE solid state hybrid drives are a combo of a mechanical hard and an SSD Drive

TRUE/FALSE desktop computer systems are less reliable than laptop computers

TRUE/FALSE the use of multiple cores on a CPU chip allows the execution of 2 or more sets of instructions at the same time

TRUE/FALSE Cache memory is a form of ROM

TRUE/FALSE level 1 cache usually contains the least amount of storage of the cache memory levels

TRUE/FALSE accessing data from the hard drive to send to the CPU is faster than accessing data from RAM

TRUE/FALSE the heads of a hard disk drive touch the surface of the platter to read or write data from RAM

TRUE/FALSE RAM prices tend to be very stable

TRUE/FALSE Optical discs store data using tiny pits and lands burned by a laser

TRUE/FALSE Video cards are designed with their own RAM

TRUE/FALSE when using multiple monitors, you must have multiple video cards

TRUE/FALSE 3D sound is different from surround-sound

TRUE/FALSE Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of 7 speakers

TRUE/FALSE if you reformat the hard drive on a computer, it erases all personal info from computer and makes it safe to donate

TRUE/FALSE RAID 0 automatically duplicates your data and saves it on 2 identical drives