Deck 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

Question 1

Which of the following does NOT determine processor power?

A) Clock speed
B) Processor clock speed
C) Amount of RAM
D) Speed of the motherboard

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In most current systems, ________ is the type of RAM used.

A) DDR2
B) DDR3
C) DRAM
D) SDRAM

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is the lightest computer?

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

Question 5

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 6

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

A) megahertz
B) bps
C) milliseconds
D) kilobytes

Question 7

A ________ uses electronic memory and has no motors or moving parts.

A) mechanical hard drive
B) solid-state drive
C) Blu-ray disc
D) digital video disc

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT an optical disc format?

A) Read-only (ROM)
B) Read-erasable (RE)
C) Recordable (R)
D) Rewritable (RW)

Question 9

________ 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 10

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

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

Question 11

Which of the following activities is carried out by the ALU?

A) Move read/write heads.
B) Perform arithmetic calculations.
C) Create virtual memory.
D) Render video images.

Question 12

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 13

The control unit is one component of the ________.

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

Question 14

There are ________ levels of cache memory.

A) five
B) eight
C) three
D) four

Question 15

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

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

Question 16

RAM is an example of ________ storage.

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

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

The amount of RAM storage is measured in ________.

A) GB
B) Hz
C) GHz
D) MHz

Question 19

How do optical discs store data?

A) A laser burns tiny pits onto a platter.
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 20

The rule of thumb that predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every 2 years is called ________ Law.

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

Question 21

To remove all the changes made to your system, 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 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

The ________ has the largest capacity of any storage device.

A) CD
B) SSD
C) DVD
D) mechanical hard drive

Question 25

The CPU is composed of the control unit and the ________ unit.

Question 26

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

A) two
B) five
C) seven
D) ten

Question 27

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 28

A ________ enables the computer to drive the speaker system.

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

Question 29

Running the CPU faster than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

Question 30

________ Law predicts that the number of transistors in a CPU will double every 2 years.

Question 31

________ 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 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

The CPU is located on the ________.

Question 36

To speed up the display of graphics, a(n)________ is installed on some video cards.

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

Question 37

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) You can clean out unnecessary programs from your Startup folder.
D) When you defrag your hard drive, it works more efficiently.

Question 38

Which of the following ports is NOT used to connect to a video card?

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

Question 39

How many channels are in a Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound System?

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

Question 40

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 41

GPU stands for ________.

Question 42

________ drives are 100 times faster than mechanical hard drives.

Question 43

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

Question 44

Hard drives have been growing in storage capacity by about 50% each year.

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

Mac OS X uses ________ software to automatically backup and restore data.

Question 50

Desktop computer systems are less reliable than laptop computers.

Question 51

The ________ has the largest capacity of any storage device.

Question 52

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

Question 53

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

Question 54

Level 3 cache memory is faster than the other cache memory levels.

Question 55

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

Question 56

A video card can deliver output to multiple ________.

Question 57

Cache memory is a form of ROM.

Question 58

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

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of eight speakers.

Question 62

Video cards include their own RAM.

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

3-D sound is different from surround-sound.

Question 67

Thunderbolt can carry three channels of information on the same connector.

Question 68

Optical discs store data using tiny pits and lands.

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

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