Deck 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

Question 1

The rule of thumb that predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every two years is called ________ Law.

A) Charles'
B) Moore's
C) Intel's
D) Boyle's

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The CPU consists of which two parts?

A) The arithmetic logic unit and the front side bus
B) The control unit and the arithmetic logic unit
C) The control unit and the front side bus
D) Cache memory and SSD storage

Question 5

Cache memory levels are based on proximity to ________.

A) the hard drive
B) RAM
C) the processor
D) the video card

Question 6

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

A) fetching
B) latency
C) overclocking
D) hyperthreading

Question 7

RAM is an example of ________ storage.

A) volatile
B) nonvolatile
C) permanent
D) mobile

Question 8

Which of the following is the lightest computer?

A) Laptop
B) Ultrabook
C) Smartphones
D) Desktop

Question 9

The control unit is one component of the ________.

A) CPU
B) cache
C) front side bus
D) clock

Question 10

Select the best way to determine your RAM allocation.

A) List all programs you would run simultaneously and the amount of RAM each needs and add together.
B) Count the number of available slots on the motherboard.
C) Divide the number of used memory slots by the number of total memory slots.
D) Monitor RAM usage in performance monitor and calculate an average of RAM used over 10 random periods.

Question 11

________ 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

Question 12

The processor market for desktop and laptop computers is dominated by ________.

A) IBM
B) Microsoft
C) Intel
D) Apple

Question 13

Windows uses a memory-management technique known as ________ to monitor which applications you use most frequently an d then preloads them into your system memory.

A) SuperGet
B) SuperFetch
C) SuperTake
D) SuperRetrieve

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a permanent storage option?

A) Optical drive
B) Random access memory
C) Internal hard drive
D) SSD

Question 17

All of the following are part of the machine cycle EXCEPT ________.

A) fetch
B) encode
C) execute
D) store

Question 18

The amount of RAM storage is measured in ________.

A) gigabytes
B) gigahertz
C) gigabits
D) machine cycles

Question 19

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

Question 20

When referring to hard drives, access time is measured in ________.

A) megahertz
B) bits per second
C) milliseconds
D) kilobytes

Question 21

Which of the following ports is NOT considered to be exclusively a video port?

A) HDMI
B) DVI
C) USB
D) DisplayPort

Question 22

Which of the following storage devices has the largest potential capacity?

A) Compact disc
B) Thumb drive
C) Bluray disc
D) Mechanical hard drive

Question 23

________ Law predicts that the number of transistors in a CPU will double about every two years.

Question 24

How many channels are in a Dolby 7.1 surround sound system?

A) 7
B) 8
C) 6
D) 12

Question 25

A(n) ________ enables the computer to drive the speaker system.

A) GPU port
B) display port
C) sound card
D) PCI bus

Question 26

________ is a feature of a CPU that allows it to begin to fetch the next instruction before it has finished executing the current one.

Question 27

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) uninstall unwanted apps

Question 28

The CPU is located on the ________.

Question 29

Which statement pertaining to system reliability is FALSE?

A) Having the latest version of software products can make your system more reliable.
B) An accumulation of temporary Internet files has no effect on your computer's overall performance.
C) Removing unnecessary programs from your Startup folder can improve system reliability.
D) When you defrag your hard drive, it works more efficiently.

Question 30

________ is the type of RAM memory used most often in today's lower-end computers.

Question 31

The Windows ________ utility returns your computer to the state it was in when it came from the factory.

A) Backup
B) Erase
C) Restore
D) Refresh

Question 32

To speed up the display of graphics, a(n) ________ is integrated into most video cards.

A) GPU
B) CPU
C) ALU
D) SSD

Question 33

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.

Question 34

The ________ of a CPU dictates how many instructions the CPU can process each second.

Question 35

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

Question 36

The CPU is composed of two units, the control unit and the ________.

Question 37

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

Question 38

A CPU's processing power is determined by the combination of the clock speed, the number of cores, and the amount of ________ memory.

Question 39

To securely erase data, the U.S. Department of Defense suggests that data be ________.

A) overwritten seven times
B) deleted
C) encoded
D) refactored

Question 40

The process the CPU performs for each program instruction is called the ________.

Question 41

A video card can deliver output to multiple ________.

Question 42

________ drives are 100 times faster than mechanical hard drives.

Question 43

Solid state hybrid drives are a combination of a mechanical hard drive and an SSD drive.

Question 44

macOS X uses ________ software to automatically backup and restore data.

Question 45

________ improves disk writing performance because data is written across two drives.

Question 46

Desktop computer systems are less reliable than laptop computers.

Question 47

Windows has tools to monitor CPU utilization in Task Manager.

Question 48

Optical drives use a(n) ________ to read and write data.

Question 49

Many computer manufacturers offer ________ programs to reduce the number of computers disposed in landfills.

Question 50

________ drives run with no noise and very little heat, and require very little power.

Question 51

________ automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives.

Question 52

A stoppage of a mechanical hard drive that often results in data loss is called a(n) ________.

Question 53

The audio subsystem consists of the speakers, microphone, and a(n) ________.

Question 54

The ________ has the largest potential capacity of any storage device.

Question 55

Level 3 cache memory is faster than Level 1 and Level 2 cache.

Question 56

RAM is an example of ________ storage because when the power is turned off, RAM is cleared out.

Question 57

A(n) ________ moves over the spinning platters to retrieve data from a mechanical hard disk.

Question 58

The time it takes a storage device to locate stored data and make it available for processing is called ________ time.

Question 59

In a video card, GPU stands for ________.

Question 60

________ sound is a type of audio system where the listener hears the sound as if it were coming from multiple speakers.

Question 61

Accessing data from the hard drive to send to the CPU is faster than accessing data from RAM.

Question 62

Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of eight speakers.

Question 63

Cache memory is a form of ROM.

Question 64

3D sound is different from surround-sound.

Question 65

RAM prices tend to be very stable.

Question 66

When using multiple monitors, you must have multiple video cards.

Question 67

RAID 0 automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives.

Question 68

If you reformat the hard drive on a computer, it erases all personal information from your computer and makes it safe to donate.

Question 69

Level 1 cache usually contains the least amount of storage of the cache memory levels.

Question 70

Optical discs store data using tiny pits and grooves burned by a laser.

Question 71

Video cards are designed with their own RAM storage.

Question 72

The heads of a mechanical hard disk drive touch the surface of the platter to read or write the data.

Question 73

The use of multiple cores on one CPU chip allows the execution of two or more sets of instructions at the same time.