BIOS - ACCURATE ANSWERS Basic input/output system contains programs to load the hardware
ROM - ACCURATE ANSWERS Read Only Memory- Permanent instructions that cannot be changed. It makes the BIOS function. Checks your OS.
operating system - ACCURATE ANSWERS (computer science) software that con...
BIOS - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Basic input/output system contains
programs to load the hardware
ROM - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Read Only Memory- Permanent
instructions that cannot be changed. It makes the BIOS function. Checks
your OS.
operating system - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ (computer science)
software that controls the execution of computer programs and may
provide various services
Hard Disk Drive - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a computer device that
reads, writes, and stores digital data
CPU - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Central Processing Unit; the brain
of the computer.
RAM - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Random Access Memory
input/output devices - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ devices that are
used to input to a computer (keyboard, mouse) or output (monitor)
, Bus - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The paths, or lines, on the
motherboard on which data, instructions, and electrical power move
from component to component.
Boot up process - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Is a list of detailed
procedures that the system undergoes to perform all system checks and
load all necessary files to bring the computer to an operable state.
CPU cores - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A multi-core processor is a
single computing component with two or more independent actual
central processing units which are the units that read and execute
program instructions.
Multi/hyper threading - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ processes small
portions of multiple threads to appear simultaneous . The CPU operates
as two virtual CPUs (actually simultaneous)
cache - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ high-speed data storage
Abstraction - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ making things simpler
(using something without having to know how it does it
analog/digital representation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ analog
shows properties of things as close together as possible, ex. Clock →
goes by seconds) (digital shows things in symbolic form →ex. jumps
from 0 to 1)
Sampling- rate at regular time intervals
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