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UNIT 2 - BTM 200 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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UNIT 2 - BTM 200 QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS
Transistor - ANSWER Small electronic switch that can be switched on and off
millions of times per second
What do transistors form a part of? - ANSWER An Integrated Circuit
Integrated Circuit - ANSWER All the components of an electronic circuit
integrated on a single silicon chip
Integrated circuits are _____ ____ (no moving parts) - ANSWER solid state
Silicon - ANSWER A semiconductor made of clay and sand
Semiconductor - ANSWER A material whose electrical properties are
intermediate between a good conductor & a nonconductor of electricity
Semiconductors make up ____ - ANSWER microchips
Chip - ANSWER A tiny piece of silicon that contains millions of
microminiature integrated electronic circuits
Microchips do what? - ANSWER Store & process data in electronic devices
, Microprocessors - ANSWER Miniaturized circuitry of an entire computer
processor ("brain") on a single chip
What do microprocessors contain? - ANSWER The CPU which processes data
into information
System Unit - ANSWER The case that contains the computer's electronic
components used to process data
Binary System - ANSWER Data-representation method for computers - two
number 0&1 (representing off/on)
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) - ANSWER -
7/8 bits per character
- Commonly used for microcomputers
Unicode - ANSWER - 16 bits per character
Machine Language - ANSWER Computer's "native language" (each CPU type
has its own machine language)
Motherboard - ANSWER Main system board of the computer
UPS - ANSWER Uninterruptible Power Supply
Traditional microcomputer microprocessors are - ANSWER Intel & AMD
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