Exam 6: Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

The rule of thumb that predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every 2 years is called ________ Law.

________ automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives.

________ is the type of RAM memory used most often in today's computers.

A stoppage of the hard drive that often results in data loss is called a(n)________.

Some of the cache memory of a CPU is ________.

________ improves disk writing performance because data is written across two drives.

A ________ enables the computer to drive the speaker system.

The CPU consists of which two parts?

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

The heads of a hard disk drive touch the surface of the platter to read or write the data.

Dolby Digital 7.1 requires a total of eight speakers.

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.

Optical discs store data using tiny pits and lands.

When using multiple monitors, you must have multiple video cards.

RAM is an example of ________ storage.

________ drives are 100 times faster than mechanical hard drives.

Cache memory is a form of ROM.

The CPU is located on the ________.