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Flashcards by hillyer.j18, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hillyer.j18
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Name one type of Optical Media | Compact Disk DVD Blu Ray |
| What is Volatile Memory? | A type of memory that is lost when the power is turned off. |
| What cycle does the CPU use to carry out instructions? | Fetch, decode and execute cycle |
| Name an input device that can be linked to a speaker | Microphone |
| Name an output device that can be linked with a mouse | Monitor |
| What is a communication device used for? | To transmit data to another system and to receive data from other systems. |
| What does RAM stand for? | Random Access Memory |
| What does ROM stand for? | Read Only Memory |
| What is the main job of ROM? | Used to boot up the computer and its programs. |
| True or False ROM is volatile | False |
| What does Virtual Memory do? | When RAM is full, virtual memory takes a small section of the HDD and uses it to store data that the RAM would usually store. |
| What does the Virtual Memory process prevent? | The computer crashing. |
| What does Cache Memory do? | Stores instructions that have already been run so that the CPU only has to make a short journey to find the instruction instead of taking a longer journey to the RAM. |
| In a NOT gate what would be the output if the input is 1? | 0 |
| What is the only combination of numbers in an AND gate that will give the output of 1 | 1 and 1 |
| For an OR gate an input of 1 and 0 would give an output of? | 1 |
| What is the clock speed of a CPU? | The number of instructions per second that a CPU can complete. |
| A CPU with clock speed of 6GHz would be able to complete how many instructions per second? | 6 Billion |
| Give the order of memory sizes (smallest first) | Bit Nibble Byte Kilobyte Megabyte Gigabyte Terabyte |
| what is the sentence that allows people to remember the memory sizes in order. | Big Naughty Boys Kicked My Granny Twice. |
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