Exam 2: Hardware Designed to Meet the Need

-Referring to the accompanying figure, steps 1 and 2 are often referred to as the ____ phase.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Primary circuit board of a computing device

RAM capacities in today's new PCs typically range from 1 GB in low-end PCs and netbooks, to 6 GB in powerful desktop PCs. _________________________

-Referring to the accompanying figure, steps 3 and 4 are often referred to as the ____ phase.

Two types of media use magnetic storage: disks and tapes.

Typically the FSB connects to a chipset that ties together several bus systems sending and receiving bytes from memory, input and output devices, storage, networks, and other motherboard components.

Today's personal computers carry out billions of instructions per second, or operate in the ____ range.

-The accompanying figure illustrates the execution of a(n) ____.

ROM is sometimes called memory or primary storage.

Computer programmers can assign bytes to represent anything by designing a look-up table.

Besides their use in performing mathematical calculations, base ten numbers are the key ingredient for digitizing sound, music, photographs, drawings, paintings, animation, and movies. _________________________

____ storage is storage that is used by a computer system for standard operations.

On the road, digital convergence takes the form of smart phones and other multipurpose handheld devices that merge cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, digital video player, and digital camera functionality into a single portable device. _________________________

The primary circuit board of a computing device is called the ____________________.

Clock speeds in today's digital devices are often measured in ____ which is millions of cycles per second.

How are LCD screen and plasma screens made? Which has higher sales, televisions with LCD or plasma screens? Why?

Blu-ray makes use of the shorter wavelength of blue light to read and write even smaller pits on the optical disc surface for higher capacity. _________________________

Digitized information is valueless without the ability to process it into useful forms.

Wordlength is the number of words that a CPU can process at once. _________________________

A compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), commonly referred to as a CD, is an optical medium that stores up to ____ MB of data.