Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

________ improves disk writing performance because data is written across two drives.

RAM is an example of ________ storage.

A CPU's processing power is determined by the combination of the clock speed, the number of cores, and the amount of ________.

The CPU is composed of the control unit and the ________ unit.

________-sound is a type of audio system where the listener hears the sound as if it were coming from all directions.

The CPU consists of which two parts?

Cache memory is a form of ROM.

________ Law predicts that the capacity of a CPU will double every 2 years.

Accessing data from the hard drive to send to the CPU is faster than accessing data from RAM.

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

________ is the type of RAM memory used most often in today's computers.

All of the following are part of the machine cycle EXCEPT ________.

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

The amount of RAM storage is measured in ________.

A video card can deliver output to multiple ________.

Running the Disk Cleanup utility is a quick way to ________.

________ is a feature of a CPU that allows it to begin to fetch the next instruction before it has finished executing the current one.

A stoppage of the hard drive that often results in data loss is called a(n) ________.

In most current systems, ________ is the type of RAM used.

Optical drives use a(n) ________ to read and write data.