Exam 2: The Computer

Each 0 or 1 in a binary string of numbers is referred to as a _______________.

Like compute binary code, Morse Code uses bits and bytes to represent the characters and symbols of human language.

Which of the following refers to the frequency in gigahertz (GHz) of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) and indicates the rate at which a processor can execute instructions?

A Blu-ray disc has the same capacity for digital information as an audio compact disc.

Which of the following terms is used to describe transmission capacity within a digital pipeline or the speed at which digital information is transmitted from one device to another?

The term PC is a generic reference to any computer running the OS X operating system.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation.

A command line interface is a text-only system that requires the user to input commands using a keyboard.

MS-DOS is the name of ________________________.

During a computer's boot sequence, the operating system is loaded into RAM.

A hard disk drive uses _________________ for data storage.

Which of the following is not an example of an optical storage format?

A(n) _________________ is self-contained collection of binary data (bytes).

The mouse was originally designed to interact with text-based hyperlinks in which type of human interface?

A string of eight 0s or 1s is called a _______________.

The invention of the _________________ in 1971, was a major technology advancement that made possible the development of the personal computer.

Each character in the ASCII standard is encoded as ___________ of binary data.

A _________________ is a computer network restricted to a limited area, purpose, and scope.

Which of the following statements is not true of volatile memory?

The _________________ is the first software application on a computer that is launched when a computer is turned on or restarted.