COMP 2 Revision Flash Cards

Name the Six Logic Gates

What is the symbol used to represent the AND Logic Gate?

What is the symbol used to represent the OR Logic Gate?

What is De Morgan's Law?

What is Hardware?

What is Software?

Name Four pieces of internal computer hardware

Name 3 Peripherals

Name the 3 Buses

What is the Stored Program Concept or Von Neumann architecture?

What is Main Memory made up of and what does each part do?

What is a bus?

Which Direction(s) does the control bus travel?

Name 4 roles of the control bus

What is the main purpose of the Control Bus?

What is the main purpose of the Data Bus?

Which Direction(s) does the Data Bus travel?

What aspect of the data bus is a key factor in overall system performance?

Which Direction(s) does the Address Bus travel in?

What does the width of the address bus determine?

What is the role of the address bus?

What is the word size of a computer?

What does ALU stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What is the control unit's role inside the CPU?

What is the system clocks role inside the CPU?

What does PC stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What is the Accumulators purpose inside the CPU?

What does CIR stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What does MAR stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What does MDR stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What does SR stand for and what is its purpose inside the CPU?

What is the wordy explanation for the fetch execute cycle?

What is the Shorthand notation for the Fetch Execute cycle?

Name 2 reasons why a programmer would use Assembly Language

Explain, basically, how a mouse works

Explain, Basically, how a keyboard works

Explain, In detail, how a Bar Code Reader works

Explain, Basically, how a Scanner works

Explain, In detail, how a Flatbed Scanner works

Explain, Basically, how a Fingerprint scanner works

Explain, Basically, how a Retina Scanner works

Explain, Basically, how a Optical Mark Reader (OMR) works

Explain, Basically, how and Optical Character Reader (OCR) Works

Explain, Basically, How a Magnetic Stripe Reader works

Explain, Basically, How a Smart Card Reader works

Explain, In detail, how an RFID reader works

Explain, In detail, how a Touch Sensitive Screen works

Explain, Basically, how a Graphics tablet works

Explain, Basically, how Voice Recognition works

Explain, In detail, how a Digital Still Camera works

Explain, Basically , how a Cathode Ray Tube works

Explain, In detail, how an LCD screen works

Explain, Basically, how a Plasma Screen works

Explain, In detail, how a Impact Printer works

Explain, In detail, how a Inkjet Printer works

Explain, In detail, how a Laser Printer works

Explain, Basically, how a Plotter works

Explain, In detail, how a HDD works

Explain, Basically, how Magnetic Tape works

Explain, In detail, how a CD ROM works

Explain, In detail, how a CD R works

Explain, In detail, how a CD RW works

Explain, Basically, how a DVD ROM works

Explain, Basically, how a DVD R works

Explain, Basically, how a DVD RW works

Explain, Basically, how a DVD RAM works

Explain, Basically, how a Blu Ray works

Explain, Basically, how a HD DVD works

Explain, In Detail, how a USB Flash Drive works

What is general purpose software

What is Special purpose software

What is Bespoke software

Third Generation: Imperative HLL. What does Imperative mean

Fourth Generation: Declarative Programming Language. What does the Declarative mean?

Name 4 pieces of IT legislation

Name the 3 levels of misuse in the Computer Misuse Act

In the Data Protection Act, name 5 things that personal data must be.

What is a code of conduct

What does CSS Stand for?

What are the 3 types of selector for a CSS document?