Intro To Computer Chapter 5

Most personal computers allow users to expand their systems by providing these on the system board. Expansion slots Ports Sound cards Network cards

Integrated circuits must be mounted on _____, which are then plugged into the system board. slots pins ports chip carriers

Frequently-accessed information is held in _____. hard drive cache memory flash memory read only memory

Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM" DRAM DDR Flash Memory Cache Memory

Which of the following allows a computer to run two or more operations simultaneously" Coprocessors Multiplexing Multicore processors Binary system

In most personal computer systems, the CPU is contained on a single chip called the _____. semiconductor ALU microprocessor control unit

This character encoding scheme allows non-English characters and special characters to be represented ASCII Unicode EBCDIC ANSIC

On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as _____. slots sockets ports lines

These specialty chips are designed to improve specific computing operations such as displaying 3-D images and encrypting data. Smartcards CPUs Coprocessors NIC cards

With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit. Desktop systems Personal digital assistants Smartphones Laptop computers

These types of ports typically provide high-speed connections to specialized devices such as camcorders and storage devices. FireWire Serial Parallel AGP

A byte is formed by a group of _____. 4 bits 8 bits 12 bits 16 bits

Which of the following ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices" eSATA S/PDIF HDMI MiniDP

Laptops and tablets use _____ that are typically located outside the system unit. AC adapters batteries power supply units MiniDc

Pathways that support communication among the various electronic components on the system board are called _____. bus lines network lines logic paths gate ways

Which of the following ports is used for connecting musical instruments to a sound card" MiniDP S/PDIF MIDI eSATA

Which of the following is a function of the control unit" -It provides pathways that support communication among the various electronic components. -It directs the movement of electronic signals between memory and the arithmetic-logic unit. - It performs fundamental math operations like addition, subtraction, and so on. - It uses the logic to compare two pieces of data.

A type of specialty processor devoted exclusively to protecting your privacy. Data cards Micro cards Cryptoprocessor Embedded cards

Which of the following is not a character encoding standard" EBCDIC ASCII CISC Unicode

With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk. Flash Cache Virtual Extended

The processing speed of a microprocessor is typically represented by its _____. bus line control unit clock speed ALU

Which of the following can be used to connect several devices to the system unit and are widely used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices" USB port SATA Parallel port Firewire bus

For multicore processors to be used effectively, computers must understand how to divide tasks into parts that can be distributed across each core-an operation called _____. arithmetic-logic processing multiplexer processing parallel processing graphics coprocessing

Tiny circuitboards etched onto squares of sandlike material, called silicon, are called _____. buses slots sockets chips

The system board is also known as the _____. expansion slot motherboard expansion card bus

All of the following are commonly used units of measurement to describe memory capacity, except _____. Megabyte (MB) Gigabyte (GB) Terabyte (TB) Nanobyte (NB)

When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory. DRAM SDRAM Cache Flash

This type of computer is a thin slab that is almost all monitor with the system unit located behind the monitor. Laptop Tablet Desktop Smartphone