Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

To speed up the display of graphics, a(n) ________ is installed on some video cards.

The CPU's ________ memory is a form of RAM that gets data to the CPU for processing faster than bringing data in from the computer's RAM would take.

The audio subsystem consists of the speakers and a(n) ________.

Windows uses a memory-management technique known as ________ to monitor which applications you frequently use and preloads them into your system memory.

Which of the following activities is carried out by the ALU?

A(n) ________ moves over the spinning platters to retrieve data from the hard disk.

Hard drives have been growing in storage capacity by about 50% each year.

________ drives run with no noise and very little heat, and require very little power.

To securely erase data, the U.S. Department of Defense suggests that the data be overwritten ________ times.

The time it takes a storage device to locate stored data and make it available for processing is called ________ time.

To remove all the changes made to your system, the Windows ________ utility returns your computer to the state it was in when it came from the factory.

If you reformat the hard drive on a computer, it erases all personal information from your computer and makes it safe to donate.

Running the CPU faster than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

Which statement pertaining to system reliability is FALSE?

The ________ has the largest capacity of any storage device.

Video cards include their own RAM.

The use of multiple cores on one CPU chip allows the execution of two or more sets of instructions at the same time.

The ________ has the largest capacity of any storage device.