Exam 5: The System Unit

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A type of specialty processor devoted exclusively to protecting your privacy.

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RAM is considered temporary, or volatile, storage.

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_____ ports are the standard high-speed networking ports for many of today's computers.

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Most personal computers allow users to expand their systems by providing these on the system board.

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All of the following are commonly used units of measurement to describe memory capacity, except _____.

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Computers require direct current (DC) to power their electronic components and to represent data and instructions.

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Which of the following ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices?

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eSATA ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices.

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VGA and DVI ports provide connections to monitors.

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The processing speed of a microprocessor is typically represented by its _____ speed.

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ASCII supports languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

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_____ memory uses the hard drive to substitute for RAM.

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_____ processors allow a single computer to run two or more operations at the same time.

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The ALU tells the rest of the computer system how to carry out a program's instructions.

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A 32-bit-word computer can access _____.

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Describe specialty ports including eSATA, MIDI, MiniDP, VGA, DVI and FireWire.

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On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as _____.

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