CSC 111 Exam #1 Questions and Answers
Central Processing Unit
What does CPU stand for?
Basic Input Output System
What is BIOS an acronym for?
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Central Processing Unit - answer What does CPU stand for?
Basic Input Output System - answer What is BIOS an acronym for?
One Million - answer Approximately how many bytes make one Megabyte?
Gigabytes - answer The capacity of your hard drive is measured in?
Microsoft Windows - answer Which of the following is an operating system you would
be using on the computer?
Random Access Memory - answer What does RAM stand for?
Hardware - answer Physical components that make up your computer are known as:
Application Software - answer Word processing, spreadsheet, and photo-editing are
examples of:
Gigabyte - answer A ____________ is approximately one billion bytes.
Binary - answer Computers use the ____________ language to process data.
The Operating System - answer What manages Processes, Memory, Disks, and I/O
devices?
Local Area Network - answer 'LAN' means?
8 bits - answer One byte is equivalent to?
Software - answer The instructions that tell the computer what to do and how to do it
is?
ROM BIOS - answer From what location are the 1st computer instructions available
on boot up?
Silicon - answer Out of what material are computer chips made?
Starting up the computer - answer What job is a computer chip not responsible for?
RAM and ROM - answer To what do buses and lines connect in a computer chip?
, Read-only memory - answer What does ROM stand for?
Loads the operating system, and tests the hardware in the machine - answer On a
PC, what do the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) instructions do?
The motherboard - answer The CPU is included on a central component of the
computer known as?
Clock Speed - answer What is the rate at which a CPU can execute instructions?
Cache memory - answer The memory that a CPU can use directly is called?
Moore's Law - answer There's a concept that states that the number of transistors
manufacturers can pack into a chip of the same size doubles every two years. What's it
called?
Transistor - answer What acts as a switch to control the flow of electricity current?
ALU - answer What part of the processor performs arithmetic and logic operations?
1,000 - answer How many bytes are there in one kilobyte?
Keyboard - answer What is an example of an input device?
Printer - answer What is an example of an output device?
Software - answer ____________________ tells the microprocessor what to do.
Fetch - answer The first step of a microprocessor is ______________
Decode - answer The second step of a microprocessor is _____________________.
Execute - answer The third step of a microprocessor is ____________________.
Math operation - answer Decode decides on the ______________.
Does the math - answer What does execute do in the microprocessor?
Second - answer A microprocessor works millions of times per _________________
0s and 1s - answer A binary code is made up of ___________________.
Transistors - answer There are millions of tiny _________________ on a
microprocessor.
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