Exam 6: Computing Components

In the accompanying figure, what on the motherboard holds the memory modules?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT A computer technician told your friend he needed a circuit board that provides a connection to a peripheral device for use with his computer. What category of circuit board should your friend purchase?

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 is a guideline for conserving battery life in your new tablet?

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

Which of the following is a register function?

Multi-core processor speed performance increases are especially noticeable when users are running multiple programs simultaneously.

L1 cache is built directly into a processor chip and usually has a very small capacity.

Which of the following can track your pulse and heart rate, as well as accept calls and display notifications from a smartphone?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following is NOT true of the new multi-core processor you have just purchased?

What is the system clock? Include definitions of the following terms in your response: clock cycle, superscalar, gigahertz, and hertz.

A can of compressed air can be used to free a keyboard from any dirt and debris that might interfere with the operation of the keys.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following are the two leading manufacturers of personal computer processor chips?

Some RAM chips, flash memory chips, and other types of memory chips use ______________________________ technology because it provides high speeds and consumes little power.

Data needed by programs and applications enters memory from either an input device or a storage device.

One gigahertz (GHz)equals how many ticks of the system clock per second?

In the machine cycle, decoding is the process of obtaining a program instruction or data item from memory.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT When someone reads a research paper about computers and runs across the term, bit, to what is the paper referring?

When the processor needs an instruction or data, it searches memory in this order: L1 cache, then L2 cache, then L3 cache (if it exists), then RAM - with a greater delay in processing for each level it must search.