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Most personal computers allow users to expand their systems by providing these on the system board.
Expansion slots |
Expansion slots |
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Integrated circuits must be mounted on _____, which are then plugged into the system board.
slots |
Chip carriers |
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Frequently-accessed information is held in _____.
hard drive |
cache memory |
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Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM"
DRAM |
Flash memory |
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Which of the following allows a computer to run two or more operations simultaneously"
Coprocessors |
Multicore processors |
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In most personal computer systems, the CPU is contained on a single chip called the _____.
semiconductor |
microprocessor |
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This character encoding scheme allows non-English characters and special characters to be represented
ASCII |
Unicode |
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On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as _____.
slots |
sockets |
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These specialty chips are designed to improve specific computing operations such as displaying 3-D images and encrypting data.
Smartcards |
Coprocessors |
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With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit.
Desktop systems |
Desktop systems |
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These types of ports typically provide high-speed connections to specialized devices such as camcorders and storage devices.
FireWire |
FireWire |
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A byte is formed by a group of _____.
4 bits |
8 bits |
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Which of the following ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices"
eSATA |
eSATA |
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Laptops and tablets use _____ that are typically located outside the system unit.
AC adapters |
AC adapters |
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Pathways that support communication among the various electronic components on the system board are called _____.
bus lines |
bus lines |
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Which of the following ports is used for connecting musical instruments to a sound card"
MiniDP |
MIDI |
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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. |
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A type of specialty processor devoted exclusively to protecting your privacy.
Data cards |
Cryptoprocessor |
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Which of the following is not a character encoding standard"
EBCDIC |
CISC |
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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 |
Virtual |
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The processing speed of a microprocessor is typically represented by its _____.
bus line |
clock speed |
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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 |
USB port |
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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 |
parallel processing |
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Tiny circuitboards etched onto squares of sandlike material, called silicon, are called _____.
buses |
chips |
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The system board is also known as the _____.
expansion slot |
motherboard |
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All of the following are commonly used units of measurement to describe memory capacity, except _____.
Megabyte (MB) |
nanobyte (NB) |
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When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory.
DRAM |
Flash |
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This type of computer is a thin slab that is almost all monitor with the system unit located behind the monitor.
Laptop |
tablet |
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