Tutorial week 4 assesing hardware PDF

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Week4: Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System 1. Which of the following is the lightest computer? A) Laptop B) Ultrabook C) Tablet D) Desktop 2. Which of the following does NOT determine a CPU's processing power? A) Clock speed B) Number of cores C) Amount of cache memory D) Speed of the motherboard 3. Which of the following activities is carried out by the ALU? A) Moves read/write heads B) Performs arithmetic calculations C) Creates virtual memory D) Renders video images 4. All of the following are part of the machine cycle EXCEPT ________. A) fetch B) encode C) execute D) store 5. Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________. A) fetching B) latency C) overclocking D) hyperthreading 6. ________ provides high-speed information processing by enabling a new set of instructions to start before the previous set is finished. A) Multitasking B) Cache memory C) Hyperthreading D) Overclocking 7. Some of the cache memory of a CPU is ________. A) inside the CPU, itself B) on the hard disk drive C) on a nearby SSD D) in cloud storage 8. RAM is an example of ________ storage. A) volatile B) nonvolatile C) permanent D) mobile

9. A ________ uses electronic memory and has no motors or moving parts. A) mechanical hard drive B) solid-state drive C) Bluray disc D) digital video disc 10. How do optical discs store data? A) A laser burns tiny pits onto a disc. B) A magnet aligns iron particles on a platter. C) Electronic memory records data on chips. D) A digital spectrometer leaves grooves in a platter. 11. Which of the following is NOT a permanent storage option? A) Optical drive B) Random access memory C) Internal hard drive D) SSD 12. Which of the following ports is NOT considered to be exclusively a video port? A) HDMI B) DVI C) USB D) DisplayPort 13. Running the Disk Defragmenter utility will ________. A) detect and remove spyware B) mark bad memory cells C) make the hard drive work more efficiently D) clean out your Startup folder 14. Running the Disk Cleanup utility is a quick way to ________. A) defrag your hard drive B) remove spyware programs C) clear out unnecessary files D) clean out your Startup folder FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTIONS 15. The ________ of a CPU dictates how many instructions the CPU can process each second. 16. The process the CPU performs for each program instruction is called the ________. 17. ________ is a feature of a CPU that allows it to begin to fetch the next instruction before it has finished executing the current one. 18. The CPU's ________ memory is a form of RAM that gets data to the CPU for processing much faster than bringing the data in from the computer's RAM.

19. RAM is an example of ________ storage because when the power is turned off, RAM is cleared out. 20. The time it takes a storage device to locate stored data and make it available for processing is called ________ time. 21. ________ improves disk writing performance because data is written across two drives. 22. ________ automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives. 23. GPU stands for ________. 24. ________ sound is a type of audio system where the listener hears the sound as if it were coming from multiple speakers. 25. The CPU is composed of two units, the control unit and the ________. TRUE/ FALSE QUESTIONS 26. Solid state hybrid drives are a combination of a mechanical hard drive and an SSD drive. 27. The use of multiple cores on one CPU chip allows the execution of two or more sets of instructions at the same time. 28. Cache memory is a form of ROM. 29. Optical discs store data using tiny pits and lands burned by a laser. 30. RAID 0 automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives. 31. If you reformat the hard drive on a computer, it erases all personal information from your computer and makes it safe to donate....