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BTE 210 EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERSHARDWARE - ANSWER HARDWARE
Center Processing Unit (CPU) - ANSWER Manages the data, and controls the activities
of the other components. BASICALLY MANIPULTES EVERYTHING
Primary Storage - ANSWER TEMPORARILY HOLDS data and program instructions while
being processed. (hold on to it just for a second)
Secondary Storage - ANSWER holds data and programs for future use. FOR LATER ON
Input Technologies - ANSWER Accept data and instructions and convert them to a form
that the computer can understand.
Output Technologies - ANSWER Present data and information in a form people can
understand.
Communication Technologies - ANSWER Provide for the flow of data from external
computer networks ( e.g, the Internet and intranets) to the CPU, and from the CPU to
computer networks.
ALLOWS FOR COMPUTER CONVERSATIONS BACK AND FORTH.
Servers - ANSWER 1. Supercomputers
2. Mainframe Computers
SERVERS - Supercomputers - ANSWER THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTERS
AVAILABLE at anytime. Due to the cost they are typically used by large organizations to
,run very computationally intensive applications with huge data sets, military, scientific
research, national weather service, etc.
SERVERS - Mainframe Computers (Note how it's in the word FRAME) - ANSWER
computers at the HIGH END OF THE PERFOMANCE AND RELIABILITY SCALES. Today's
mainframes perform at teraflop (trillions of floating point operations per second) speeds
and can handle millions of transactions per day.
BEST TYPE SHIT THAT WORKS - TECHNOLOGY-WISE.
Midrange Computers(wic) or minicomputers - ANSWER larger midrange computers that
are relatively small, inexpensive and compact computers that perform the same
functions as mainframe computers, but to a more limited extent.- NOTE HOW THEY A
LITTLE BIT SMALLER
Clients - ANSWER - Microcomputers ( desktop PCs)
- Laptops
-Tablets
-Wearable Clients ( E.g Apple Watch)
Desktop PCs - ANSWER also known as personal computers or just PCs are the smallest
and least expensive class of general-purpose computers.
- Mid SHIT
1. Desktop PC's
2. Thin Client / Fat Client Systems
3. Laptop and Notebook Computers
4. Netbooks
5. Tablet Computers.
,Thin -Client Systems WIC: they are THIN - ANSWER desktop computer systems that do
not offer full functionality of a PC. Compared to PCs, or FAT Clients, thin clients are less
complex, particularly because they do not have locally installed software when thin
clients need to run an application; they access it from a server over a network instead of
from a local disk drive.
Laptops & Notebook Computers - ANSWER Small, easily transportable, lightweight
microcomputers that fit comfortably into a briefcase.
Netbooks: - ANSWER a very small, lightweight, lo-cost, energy-efficient, portable
computer. Netbooks are generally optimized for Internet-based services such as Web
browsing and e-mail.
Tablet Computers - ANSWER a complete computer contained entirely in a flat
touchscreen that users operate via a stlyus, digital pen, or fingertip instead of a
keyboard or mouse.
Wearable Computers - ANSWER small computers that people wear under, with, or on
top of their clothing.
(Ex: Apple Watch)
Computer Case/Chassis - ANSWER 1. System Fan
2. Power Supply
3. Floppy
4. Heat Sink
5. Hard Drive
6. Optical Drive
7. RAM Moduels
8. Processors (CPU)
9. Motherboard
Hierarchy - Memory Capacity - ANSWER Bit
Byte
, Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte
Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte
Zettabyte
(check order)
"Burger-Burger-King-Makes-Good-Toast-Please-Eat-Zome "
COMPUTER MEMORY - PRIMARY STORAGE
1. Primary Memory ( aka Main Memory) - QUESTION Four Main Types of Primary Storage
1. Register Memory
2. Cache Memory
3. Random Access Memory ( RAM)
4. Read-Only Memory(ROM)
Register Memory - QUESTION Part of the CPU. They have the least capacity, storing
extremely LIMITED amounts of instructions and data ONLY IMMEDIATELY before and
after processing. ( think of register that once its gone its gone) like in the stores
Cache Memory - ANSWER High-speed memory that allows the computer to store blocks
of data that are USED MORE OFTEN and that a processor can access more RAPIDLY
than main memory (RAM). Cache memory is physically located closer to the CPU than
RAM.
Think of it like something that caches all that stuff you like and are used too. It "caches"
the stuf u like
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