IT St. 3 – Flashcards
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A small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched?
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Computer Chip
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What interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer?
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CPU
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What component of the processor performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations?
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ALU
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One gigahertz (GHz) equals how many ticks of the system clock per second?
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One Billion
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What consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed by the processor, data needed by those instructions, and the results of processed data (information)?
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Memory
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Which of the following is the most common type of volatile memory?
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RAM
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What is the process of copying items from RAM to a storage device?
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Saving
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What is the process of copying items from RAM to a storage device?
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Firmware
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Which of the following is a type of nonvolatile memory that can be erased electronically and rewritten?
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Flash memory
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Which of the following should you have if you plan to connect your computer or mobile device to a wired computer network?
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Ethernet port
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Which of the following allows the processor to communicate with peripheral devices?
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Expansion bus
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Which of the following is the component of the system unit that converts the wall outlet AC power into the DC power a computer requires?
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Power Supply
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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 this circuit board called?
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Motherboard
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What are three names for the electronic component that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer?
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CPU, processor, central processing unit
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Numbering system uses only the numbers 0 and 1?
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Binary System
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Computer memory and computer storage are available in varying sizes.
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Terabyte (TB)
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When a user types data on a keyboard, what is occurring?
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The user is using an input device to enter input into the memory of the computer.
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Highest quality images, an LCD monitor should plug in to which type of port?
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HDMI
