Exam 6: Computing Components

In the binary system, the digit 1 represents the electronic state of off (absence of an electronic charge).

You have just purchased a new tablet and your last one was plagued with a poorly functioning battery. For this reason, with your new one, you have decided to become fully conversant in best practices with regard to battery life, so you can get the most out of this new one. Which of the following should you disable unless you are using it in order to conserve battery life?

When you examine a computer chip under a microscope, what will you see?

When your friend turns off her computer, what kind of memory loses its contents?

The electronic components and circuitry of the system unit, such as the processor and memory, usually are part of or are connected to a circuit board called the fatherboard.

A DC adapter converts the DC power from the wall outlet into the AC power that the peripheral requires.

Which of the following is measured by the number of ticks per second?

The data bus transfers information about where the data should reside in memory, and the address bus transfers actual data.

What method do chip manufacturers use to identify their chips?

Which of the following is a small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched?

Current processors include advanced transfer cache, a type of cache built directly on a processor chip. Which type of cache is this?

Which of the following processors is a single chip with two or more separate processor cores?

A dual-core processor doubles the processing speed of a single-core processor.

Inserting dirty media can damage a computer or mobile device's internal components.

Which of the following describe computer memory?

Which of the following types of memory modules, such as that shown in the accompanying figure, positions the pins on opposite sides of the circuit board so they do not connect and thus form two sets of contacts?

Which of the following is the International Electronics Commission working to make the universal connector standard for charging mobile devices?

What are the roles of the control unit and the ALU?

L2 cache is slightly faster than L1 cache but has a much smaller capacity.

Dynamic RAM (DRAM) chips are faster and more reliable than any version of SDRAM chips.