Exam 4: File Management and Digital Electronics

Sarla is teaching Jonah about file management. Sarla tells Jonah that most PCs use the standard drive letter ____ for the hard drive.

____ data is composed of letters, symbols, and numerals that will not be used in arithmetic operations.

ASCII and EBCDIC are used for ____.

Which of the following is NOT true about ROM BIOS?

Unicode is the most flexible character coding scheme. _________________________

The ____________________ has sockets into which DIP and PGA chips can be plugged.

What is RAM? How does RAM work? How much RAM should a PC have?

During the boot process, the bootstrap program in ROM instructs the core operating system programs to load into RAM. _________________________

The main directory of a hard drive is referred to as the root directory. _________________________

The chief rival to Intel in the PC chip market is AMD. _________________________

The coding scheme used by a computer depends on whether the data is numeric or character data.

In the associated figure, each colored dot is called a(n) ____.

Most of today's processors are housed in a ____ chip package.

A digital image, like the one shown in the accompanying figure, is simply a list of the binary numbers for all the dots it contains.

A(n) ____ converts all of the statements in a program in a single batch.

The ____ chip package resembles a pincushion.

Which of the following is NOT true about managing files?

____ refers to the number of bits a processor can manipulate at one time.

____________________ is another word for a picture element.

Data transmission speeds are usually expressed in bytes . _________________________