Exam 2: Hardware Designed to Meet the Need

____________________ is temporary, or volatile, memory that stores bytes of data and program instructions for the processor to access.

When used in media devices such as digital cameras, camcorders, and portable MP3 players, flash memory cards are sometimes referred to as ____ cards.

Typically used in larger workstations, coprocessors are ____ processors that speed processing by executing specific types of instructions while the CPU works on another processing activity.

When bytes are used to represent a finite set of data such as the 52 cards in a deck, a table can be used to associate each unit of data with a unique bit pattern.

The execution of an instruction is a step-by-step process that involves two phases: the idle phase and the execution phase. _________________________

A solid-state storage device stores data using transistors. _________________________

Secondary storage devices are used to store data more permanently than RAM, such as when the computer is turned off. _________________________

In the early days of computing, the computer industry agreed on a code for representing keyboard text characters and named it ____.