Exam 4: Hardware and Software

Printers are examples of output hardware.

Differentiate between an operating system and an application program.

What are the different categories of application programs?

Memory is said to be ________ if contents are lost when power is off.

Which of the following operating systems was developed by the open source community?

A computer with a quad-processor has ________ CPUs.

The CPU has a small amount of very fast memory called ________.

To execute an instruction,the CPU moves the instruction from main memory via the cache.

A grocery scanning checkout system is an example of ________.

Which device listed below is an example of an output hardware device?

One ________ = 1024 kilobytes.

Which of the following is true of thick-client applications?

The CPU selects instructions,processes them,performs arithmetic and logical comparisons,and stores results of operations in memory.

Which of the following is considered to be input hardware?

CPU speed is expressed in ________.

How can individuals and firms buy computer programs?

For some commercial Web sites,the server is actually a large collection of computers,called a ________,that coordinates all of their activities.

Main memory of the computer contains instructions for the operating system (OS).

Server computers need lots of main memory and very large disks.

________ is a type of computer software which is installed in special,read-only memory in devices like printers or communication devices.