Exam 5: Computing Components

A compact disc stores data using magnetized particles.

The interface called SATA (serial ATA) used with the hard disk drive is both faster and less costly to make than the parallel ATA in the transmission of individual data bits.

Which of the following means that each memory location can be accessed directly?

What two components make up the central processing unit in a von Neumann machine?

Which of the following contains the instruction register?

Which type of touch screen is made up of two layers that come into contact when the user presses on the screen?

What is the function of the front side bus (FSB) in a computer?

Addressability is the number of bits stored in each addressable location in memory.

The control unit and the arithmetic/logic unit are both part of the central processing unit (CPU).

The data on a CD-RW can be rewritten.

The prefix micro refers to which power of ten?

A megabyte of memory space is larger than a gigabyte of memory space.

_______________ is the time it takes for the desired sector to rotate to the read/write head in a disk drive.

The prefix giga is abbreviated G and stands for 10⁹ (one billion) or 2³⁰ (slightly more than one billion).

RAM stands for _______________, and is generally synonymous with the main memory of a computer.

Describe synchronous processing in a parallel architecture.

Which of the following is a computing technique in which multiple processors each contribute one part of an overall computation?

Task-level parallelism is based on the idea that different processors can execute different tasks simultaneously.

What are the the four ordered steps in the fetch-execute processing data and instruction processing cycle?

The program counter is a register that stores the number of instructions executed by a computer.