Exam 5: The System Unit

64-bit processors can access 8 bytes at a time.

These specialty processors are designed to improve specific computing operations such as displaying 3-D images and encrypting data.

Tiny circuit-boards etched onto squares of sand-like material called silicon are called:

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

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.

Plug and Play has become a generic term that is associated with the ability to plug any device into a computer and have it play or work immediately.

The number of bits that can travel simultaneously down a bus is known as the bus _____.

The most widely used character encoding standard today is _____.

A 32-bit word computer can access:

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

A _____ is the number of bits that can be accessed at one time by the CPU.

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

Graphics cards connect the system board to secondary storage.

These types of ports typically provide connections to specialized devices such as camcorders and storage devices.

The _____ system consists of only two digits - 0 and 1.

With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit.

_____ ports are an audio-visual port typically used to connect large monitors.

ASCII supports Chinese and Japanese.

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:

How is the multicore chip useful for microcomputers?