Exam 1: Computers and Computer Systems

Together, the instruction cycle and one or more execution cycles create a machine cycle.

Computers perform logical operations using logical operators such as ____.

Which of the following system components is the brains of the computer?

The ____ coordinates all of the processor's activities.

What type of computer could be found in a digital watch?

Which measurement is approximately 1 million bytes?

A computer is an electronic device that receives data (input), processes data, stores data, and produces a result (output).

Peripheral devices such as printers and monitors are considered to be ____.

Input, output, and processing devices grouped together represent a(n) ____.

If you want to keep a permanent copy of data, you must store it in RAM.

A CPU is simply a thin plate or board that contains electronic components.

A multicore processor is a single chip that contains two separate processors.

Which of the following storage devices is the next-generation optical disc format that provides more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs?

____ refers to the machine language which is all 1s and 0s .

The ____ of a CD/DVD indicates its quality.

Which of the following is NOT a safeguard you should take to care for removable storage media?

The more ____ you have, the faster the computer processes data.

Case 1-1 Eli uses computers as part of his daily duties in his job as a store clerk at a department store. When Eli views the description and price of an item displayed on the computer monitor, which step in the information processing cycle is being performed?

Optical storage is used to extend disk space on a server and to eliminate the addition of more hard disks or other storage devices.

Eight bits are equal to one byte.