Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

Which of the following is NOT an optical storage device?

________ Law predicts that the number of transistors in a CPU will double about every two years.

To speed up the display of graphics, a(n) ________ is integrated into most video cards.

________ drives are much faster than mechanical hard drives.

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

Running the Disk Defragmenter utility will ________.

Cache memory is ________.

The ________ of a CPU dictates how many instructions the CPU can process each second.

________ remembers everything the computer needs to process data into information, but only while the computer is turned on.

Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of eight speakers.

SSD drives can make a huge difference in the amount of time it takes your computer to boot up.

________ is a technique that allows the CPU to work on more than one instruction at the same time.

________ drives run with no noise and very little heat, and require very little power.

Which of the following is NOT a type of optical media?

The use of multiple cores on one CPU chip allows the execution of two or more sets of instructions at the same time.

Level 1 cache usually contains the least amount of storage of the cache memory levels.

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

The system ________ is like a metronome for your computer.

The processor market for desktop and laptop computers is dominated by ________.