Exam 2: Computer Hardware

DVD stands for ____________________.

One of your colleagues has purchased a new personal computer for her husband. She just read an article online at the National Safety Council Web site, and learned that an estimated 500 million computers were obsolete by the year 2007. She also learned that an estimated 1 billion floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs end up in landfills every year with more than 2 million tons of computer parts which contain toxic substances. Your colleague wonders if she should include software along with the old computer when she donates or sells it. What would you tell her about the legal transfer of software?

The item labeled 2 in the above figure reads and writes the particles that represent data in magnetic storage.

CD and DVD drives are examples of ____.

An expansion ____ is a connector that passes data in and out of a computer or peripheral device.

A(n)____ has a nozzlelike print head that sprays ink onto paper to form characters and graphics.

A vertical stack of tracks on a hard disk platter is called a cylinder.

It is possible for CDs and DVDs to use rewritable technology to record data in multiple sessions.

Most notebook computers are equipped with an external slot called a PCMCIA.

A CD-RW drive can be used to record CDs, but not play audio CDs.

Data ____________________ is the amount of data that a storage device can move from the storage medium to the computer per second.