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Question 1

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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?
Answer
  • Charters
  • Gender changes
  • buses
  • words

Question 2

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What is unique about a multi-core processor?
Answer
  • It is a single chip with two or more separate processor cores.
  • It is a single processor with two or more separate chips.
  • It contains multiple control elements that, when working togther, can increase the data processed over the internet.
  • It uses core memory to enhance the processing speed of processors.

Question 3

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The accompanying figure shows Which of the following kinds of molecules, which are small circuit boards where RAM chips usually resides, being inserted into the motherboard?
Answer
  • index
  • memory
  • insertion
  • cooling

Question 4

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Which of the following is the most common type of volatile memory?
Answer
  • ROM
  • Flash Memory
  • CMOS
  • RAM

Question 5

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Which of the following refers to an environment of servers that house and provide access to resources users access vis the internet?
Answer
  • Peripheral computing
  • dynamic computing
  • embedded computing
  • Cloud computing

Question 6

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Which of the following is a case on a desktop that contains and protects the item shown in the accompanying figure and other electronic components?
Answer
  • System unit
  • Master section
  • Control port
  • Base chip

Question 7

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What is the process of copying items from RAM to a storage device?
Answer
  • Pipelining
  • Synchronization
  • Restating
  • Saving

Question 8

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As shown in the accompanying figure, which of the following kinds of cards is a circuit board that enhances functions of a component of the system unit and/or provides connections to peripherals?
Answer
  • Peripheral
  • Adapter
  • Conversion
  • Microcode

Question 9

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In the accompanying figure what on the motherboard holds the memory molecules?
Answer
  • Memeory Slots
  • Memory contacts
  • Memory sleeves
  • Memory pins

Question 10

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Some computer and chip manufactures use which of the following terms to refer to a personal computer processor chip?
Answer
  • Microprocessor
  • Parallel Processor
  • Coprocessor
  • Perpendicular Processor

Question 11

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Which of the following processors is a single chip with two or more separate processor cores?
Answer
  • Parallel
  • Compressed
  • Multi-core
  • binary

Question 12

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Which of the following means the computer automatically can configure cards like the one in the accompanying figure and other peripherals as users install them?
Answer
  • Concatenatin
  • GIGO
  • Daisy chaining
  • Plug and Play

Question 13

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Which of the following is another term for the system unit?
Answer
  • Form factor
  • Chassis
  • Motherboard
  • chip

Question 14

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Which of the following is a type of nonvolatile memory that can be erased electronically and rewritten?
Answer
  • Flash memory
  • L1 cache
  • firmware
  • microcode

Question 15

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ONe gigahertz (GHz) equals how many ticks of the system clock per second?
Answer
  • One thousand
  • One million
  • One billion
  • One trillion

Question 16

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When someone reads a research paper about computers and runs across the term, bit to what is the paper referring?
Answer
  • One portion of the computer memory that uses 8-digital discrete electronic states to represent a character
  • A digit that represenst the electronic state called "off"
  • The smallest unit of data a computer can process
  • The most informative electronic element that represents data in a computer

Question 17

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Which of the following is the international Electronic Commission working to make the universal connector standard for charging mobile devices?
Answer
  • FireWire
  • Micro USB
  • MIDI
  • Serial

Question 18

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

Question 19

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What numbering system uses only the numbers 0 and 1?
Answer
  • octo system
  • Binary system
  • 8-bit system
  • ASCII system

Question 20

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What are three names for te electronic component that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer?
Answer
  • analog interpreter, AI, interpreter
  • CPU, processor, central processing unit
  • Control processing unit, CPU, Processor
  • Command processing circuit, CPU processor

Question 21

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When 8 bits are grouped togther as a unit, how many individual characters can these 8 bits represent?
Answer
  • 8
  • 100
  • 256
  • 844

Question 22

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Which of the following interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer?
Answer
  • Control unit
  • Binary device
  • CPU
  • Compressor

Question 23

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When your friend opened the case containing the electronic components of his computer, he saw the main circuit board for the computer. What is the circuit board called?
Answer
  • Motherboard
  • Control board
  • Electronic circiut primary board
  • Command Board

Question 24

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Which of the following is a small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched?
Answer
  • Computer plug
  • Computer port
  • Computer chip
  • Computer roster

Question 25

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Which of the following is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer?
Answer
  • Control Unit
  • Concatenation unit
  • Compression unit
  • Micro unit
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