Exam 5: The System Unit

_____ (acronym) ports are a special type of port for connecting musical instruments to a sound card.

Explain expansion slots and cards.

Which of the following allows a computer to run two or more operations simultaneously?

A _____-bit-word computer can access 8 bytes of information at a time.

_____ are effectively a thin slab that is almost all monitor with the system unit located behind the monitor.

_____ (2 words) cards are used to connect a computer to a network.

Virtual memory is stored on a RAM chip.

The system unit, also known as the system chassis, is a container that houses most of the electronic components that make up a computer system.

USB ports are used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices.

MiniDP ports are an audiovisual port typically used to connect large monitors.

_____ operations consist of making comparisons.

_____ (acronym) ports are an audiovisual port typically used to connect large monitors.

Pathways that support communication among the various electronic components on the system board are called _____.

Compare and contrast the five most common types of system units.

With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk.

The system board is also known as the _____.

For multicore processors to be used effectively, computers must understand how to divide tasks into parts that can be distributed across each core-an operation called _____.

_____ buses connect the CPU to memory on the system board.

Tiny circuit boards etched onto squares of sandlike material, called silicon, are called _____.

When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory.