Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

________ provides high-speed information processing by enabling a new set of instructions to start before the previous set is finished.

Which of the following is the lightest computer?

Cache memory levels are based on proximity to ________.

If you reformat the hard drive on a computer, it erases all personal information from your computer and makes it safe to donate.

The heads of a mechanical hard disk drive touch the surface of the platter to read or write the data.

The CPU is located on the ________.

Level 3 cache memory is faster than Level 1 and Level 2 cache.

The rule of thumb that predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every two years is called ________ Law.

The Windows ________ utility returns your computer to the state it was in when it came from the factory.

Which of the following storage devices has the largest potential capacity?

RAM is an example of ________ storage.

A video card can deliver output to multiple ________.

A ________ uses electronic memory and has no motors or moving parts.

The amount of RAM storage is measured in ________.

Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of eight speakers.

The time it takes a storage device to locate stored data and make it available for processing is called ________ time.