Exam 17: Looking Under the Hood

RAM chips permanently hold data.

Thin wire ____ can be soldered directly into a circuit board or plugged into a chip socket on the circuit board.

Your PC works with data that has been converted into a ____ then into electronic signals, which can easily travel through circuits on chips and circuit boards.

Chips are housed in a small, black, rectangular ____________________.

Data sent to a printer, modem, or display screen is called ____.

In the figure above, how many bytes are used to code the data for the lilac color?

In the figure above, the object indicated by item ____ is the main processing device in your PC.

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 17-1 Simon is learning about the inner workings of his computer. Before now, he had never thought about what was going on behind the scenes of his computer. Simon has a friend that is a computer programmer. Until now, he thought that she input data in plain English. However, after reading this chapter, he knows that ____.

Data sent to devices such as a printer, modem, or display screen is called ____________________.

System performance benchmarks measure processing efficiency for the words and numbers that you manipulate when using word processing applications.

The process of ____ data moves it from the temporary RAM to a more permanent destination.

Computers code bitmap image data using a binary color code for each pixel in the image.

A(n) ____ contains electrical pathways that allow data to travel between chips.

Your computer is only as fast as its ____.

Computers code bitmap image data using a binary color code for each ____ in the image.

A chip is housed in a small, black, rectangular ____.

____ is a nickname for an integrated circuit.

Your computer is only as fast as its slowest component.

In the figure above, the object indicated by item 3 ____.

Processors with a larger ____________________ can process more data during each processor cycle.