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CVS correct answers Concurrent Versioning System IDE correct answers Integrated Development Environment CPU correct answers Central Processing Unit bit correct answers binary digit (0 or 1) byte correct answers sequence of 8 bits hardware correct answers physical components of the computer (CPU, RAM, motherboard, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc) software correct answers programs or apps you can run on a computer (internet browsers, games, operating systems, etc) List operating systems correct answers Windows, Mac OS, unix, linux, solaris List secondary memory devices correct answers hard drives, floppy disks, flash memory devices, CDs, DVDs advantage of primary over secondary correct answers faster advantage of secondary over primary correct answers permanent (usually more as well) What does I/O stand for? Give examples correct answers Input/Output, devices that allow you to communicate with the computer (monitor, keyboard, mouse) How many combination of 0's and 1's can be represented in n bits? correct answers 2^n How many bytes in a kilobyte? correct answers 2^10 How many bytes in a megabyte? correct answers 2^20 How many bytes in a gigabyte? correct answers 2^30 What does the operating system do for you? correct answers Process Management, Memory Management, Primitive I/O, Windowing, Primitive Network Control, Security Management What do you call the language that the CPU uses(represented in 0's and 1's)? correct answers Machine Language How does assembly language relate to machine language? correct answers assembly language is a mnemonic representation of machine language