Exam 2: Hardware Designed to Meet the Need

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Multiple transistors integrated into a single module; stores and process bits and bytes

Two 60 GB microdrives enable the current iPod Classic to store up to ____ songs.

Alex is a writer for Technology Now magazine and is writing an article on the latest input and output devices. -Alex interviews chemists who are using a new input device to track the motions of particles in an atom. To do so, they use an advanced laser strobe light that slices time into the shortest bit yet achieved-a(n) ____-a billionth of a billionth of a second.

The ____________________ number system uses only two values, 0 and 1, and is used by computers and digital devices to represent and process data.

____ memory is a type of high-speed memory that a processor can access more rapidly than RAM.

Integrated circuits, also called keys, are used to store and process bits and bytes in today's computers. _________________________

On notebook systems, the graphics hardware is typically in the form of a separate graphics card that you can remove or upgrade.

A general-purpose I/O device is designed for use in a variety of environments. This category of I/O devices includes ____.

Digital devices store and process data as ____.

The storage ____ of a storage medium is the maximum amount of bytes that it can hold.

CMOS memory (pronounced see-moss, short for ____ metal-oxide semiconductor) provides semipermanent storage for system configuration information that may change.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Small flash memory module that conveniently plugs into a USB port

RAM exists as a set of chips grouped together on a circuit board called a ____.

Magnetic disks can be ____ platters (hard disks) or Mylar plastic film (floppy disks).

A processor with a 32-bit wordlength has the capacity to be twice as fast as a processor with an 8-bit wordlength.

____________________ is the act of manipulating data in a manner defined by programmed instructions.

Universal Serial Bus is a standard that allows a wide array of devices to connect to a computer through a common port. _________________________

RAID or ____ array of independent disks uses a second system of disks to maintain a backup copy of the data stored on the primary disks.

Magnetic tape is an example of a ____ storage medium because data is written and read in sequential order from the beginning of the tape to the end.

Microdrives, tiny hard drives that can store gigabytes of data on a disk one or two ____ in size, have transformed handheld devices.