Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

A video card can deliver output to multiple ________.

Running the Disk Defragmenter utility will ________.

The ________ has the largest capacity of any storage device.

When referring to hard drives, access time is measured in ________.

Which of the following ports is NOT considered to be exclusively a video port?

GPU stands for ________.

A(n) ________ moves over the spinning platters to retrieve data from a hard disk.

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

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

________ drives are 100 times faster than mechanical hard drives.

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

The CPU is composed of two units, the control unit and the ________.

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

3D sound is different from surround-sound.

Windows uses a memory-management technique known as ________ to monitor which applications you use most frequently an d then preloads them into your system memory.

Video cards are designed with their own RAM storage.

RAM is an example of ________ storage because when the power is turned off, RAM is cleared out.

Match each of the following terms to its meaning: I. latency II. sectors III. tracks IV. seek time V. platters

Match each of the following terms to its purpose: I. virtual memory II. physical memory III. random access memory IV. cache memory V. video memory

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