Exam 3: Hardware: Input, Processing, and Output Devices

What is the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool and who manages its use?

_____ is a method of storing data so that if a hard drive fails, the lost data on that drive can be rebuilt.

People involved in selecting their organization's computer hardware need not understand current and future business requirements.

An RFID tag on an inventory item might contain information _____.

LCD monitors generally use between 35 and 50 percent less power than plasma screens and OLED monitors use even less power than LCD monitors.

Computers need to store larger amounts of data and instructions more permanently than main memory allows - secondary storage serves this purpose.

_____ involves the simultaneous execution of two or more computer instructions.

The process of converting human-readable data into machine-readable form is called ________.

_____ is a popular format for compressing a sound sequence into a very small file while preserving the original level of sound quality when it is played.

The two categories of optical data readers are _____ and optical character recognition.

A Terabyte is about one billion bytes of data.

The _____ is an advanced optical disk technology still in development that would store more data than even the Blu-ray optical disk system.

A(n) _____ is a dot of color on a photo image or a point of light on a display screen.

_____ are the two leading rival manufacturers of computer processing chips.

_____ is the use of a collection of computers, often owned by many people or different organizations, to work in a coordinated manner to solve a common problem.

Support for green computing is emerging as a business strategy for computer manufacturers to distinguish themselves from the competition.

Secondary storage is also called _____.

The CPU and memory of a computer are housed in the same box call the _____ unit.

A ________ is a handheld computer that combines the functionality of a mobile phone, camera, Web browser,e-mail tool, MP3 player, and other devices into a single device.

A DVD can hold at least six times as much data as a CD disk.