Exam 17: Looking Under the Hood

One ____________________ is 1 billion cycles per second.

The type, capacity, and speed of various components in your PC are called ____ specifications.

The circuitry that transports data to the microprocessor is called the fast side bus .

Four bits form a byte.

Input is data that goes into a computer.

____ is based on the size of registers in the processor and the capacity of circuits that lead to those registers.

In the figure above, the red, green, and blue values are stored as ____ numbers.

Typically, ____ is measured by its storage capacity in kilobytes (KB).

The ____ number system uses only two digits.

Word size refers to the number of bits that a microprocessor can manipulate at one time.

On a CD, 1s and 0s are represented by nonreflective pits and reflective surfaces called ____.

During each clock cycle, the processor executes ____.

On a disk, 1s and 0s are represented by ____ particles with different magnetic polarities.

Clock speed is measured in gigahertz (GHz) .

Numbers for calculations are usually coded using the ____ number system.