NT 1210
Chapter 1 Review Questions
1. Which of the following is true about 1 bit?
2. Which of the following terms means approximately 106 bytes?
3. Which answer lists the correct number of bits associated with each term?
4. Which of the following answers are true about random-access memory (RAM) as it is normally used inside a personal computer? (Two answers)
5. This chapter describes the concepts behind how a CPU reads the contents from RAM. Which of the following is true about the process of read data, as described in the chapter?
6. A user had opened a word processor, typed the numbers 123456789, and stored the document as a filed called report1. Which of the following determines, in part, what bits the computer
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13. Which of the following are components of an internal hard disk drive (HDD)? (two answers)
14. Which of following technologies are considered to be solid state? (two answers)
15. A user has opened a word processor, typed the numbers 123456789, and looked at the number on the screen in the word processor window. The user sits and starts to daydream about how computers work, particularly about what happened from the time before she typed 123456789 until the number showed up on the screen. Which of the following answers lists the first item that the computer will need to consider?
16. A user presses the a key on a computer keyboard. Which of the following answers best describes how a keyboard knows that the a key was pressed?
17. In a mechanical computer mouse, the mouse, computer, and display work together to move the mouse pointer across the screen. When the mouse signals the computer about how the user has moved the mouse, which of the following answers best describes what the mouse tells the CPU?
18. Which of the following answers describes a feature in common between computer mice and computer keyboard?
19. For a particular computer display, the screen resolution is set to 1280 x 1024. Which of the following is true about the term screen resolution, these two numbers, and what they describe? (Two answers)
20. Which of the
I. Take a moment, and point at the computer screen. Notice that your index finger is extended and your other fingers are curled into your palm. How did your hand know to do that? It all began in your brain, the starting point for an important chain of communication. Your brain ordered nerve cells, to activate
RAM: RAM stands for Random Access Memory. It is a bit like a person's short-term memory. RAM is volatile so data only exists only when the computer is turned on, and is used by the operating system and other applications.
RAM (Random Accesses Memory): RAM is used by CPU when a computer is running to store the information that it needs to be used very quickly but it does not store any information permanently.
3. The Graphical Processing Unit is a hardware component capable of quickly drawing items to the screen.
1.1) Give 5 types of hardware resources and five types of data or software resources that
Irregular Access memory is inside the PC which store the information and work with capacity memory to make lessen less and influence space for essential things to like record and documents in light of the fact that for individual protection.
Computer only understand 0 and 1 so everything typed on the keyboard input tab CPU convert into 0s and 1s.e.g. If you input the number 230 and 60 and want to have a result of the sum of these two numbers computer do not understand this number. These numbers go to the RAM then to CPU. Inside CPU electronic component known as control unit receive order from RAM in form of instruction then it breaks down into specific commands for others components.
4. Which of the following are true about random-access memory (RAM) as it is normally used inside a personal computer?
b).1. Instruction and data transfers would take three bus cycles each, one for the address and two for the data. Since If the address bus is 32 bits, the whole address can be transferred to memory at once.
4. Which of the following is a detailed written definition of how software and hardware are to be used?
Keyboard; Each key one a keyboard can be set to do different events simultaneously, pressing and/or releasing a key can be used to start
(b) What is the Turing Test and what is it used for? In your answer include an appropriate, properly referenced, excerpt from your chosen website. [6] (c) The results of a weather station are stored on a computer. They are presented as a bar chart showing rainfall for the months of the year. Is the bar chart an example of data or a representation of information? Explain your
Capacity: Capacity of RAMs come in increments such as “1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32” but they’re generally anywhere around 512 mb to 8 GB
27. You have installed Windows Server 2008 on a new server and want to centralize user logons and security