Question 1

Solid state hybrid drives are a combination of a mechanical hard drive and an SSD drive.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following ports is NOT considered to be exclusively a video port?

Accepted Answer

A)   HDMI
B)   DVI
C)   USB
D)   DisplayPort

Question 3

Video cards are designed with their own RAM storage.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

A(n)  ________ enables the computer to drive the speaker system.

Accepted Answer

A)   GPU port
B)   display port
C)   sound card
D)   PCI bus

Question 5

How do optical discs store data?

Accepted Answer

A)   A laser burns tiny pits onto a disc.
B)   A magnet aligns iron particles on a platter.
C)   Electronic memory records data on chips.
D)   A digital spectrometer leaves grooves in a platter.

Question 6

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   fetching
B)   latency
C)   overclocking
D)   hyperthreading

Question 7

The audio subsystem consists of the speakers, microphone, and a(n) ________.

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The answer of The audio subsystem consists of the speakers,...

Question 8

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

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The answer of ________ improves disk writing performance because data...

Question 9

The ________ has the largest potential capacity of any storage device.

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mechanical hard driv...

Question 10

Some of the cache memory of a CPU is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   inside the CPU, itself
B)   on the hard disk drive
C)   on a nearby SSD
D)   in cloud storage

Question 11

Optical drives use a(n) ________ to read and write data.

Accepted Answer

laser; hig...

Question 12

Optical discs store data using tiny pits and grooves burned by a laser.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The CPU consists of which two parts?

Accepted Answer

A)   The arithmetic logic unit and the front side bus
B)   The control unit and the arithmetic logic unit
C)   The control unit and the front side bus
D)   Cache memory and SSD storage

Question 14

Which of the following activities is carried out by the ALU?

Accepted Answer

A)   Moves read/write heads
B)   Performs arithmetic calculations
C)   Creates virtual memory
D)   Renders video images

Question 15

How many channels are in a Dolby 7.1 surround sound system?

Accepted Answer

A)   7
B)   8
C)   6
D)   12

Question 16

Match between columns
                        Premises: tracks
platters
seek time
sectors
latency

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The Answer of concentric circles on a hard drive and is...

Question 17

________ drives are 100 times faster than mechanical hard drives.

Accepted Answer

Solid-stat...

Question 18

A CPU's processing power is determined by the combination of the clock speed, the number of cores, and the amount of ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A CPU's processing power is determined by...

Question 19

Which of the following does NOT determine a CPU's processing power?

Accepted Answer

A)   Clock speed
B)   Number of cores
C)   Amount of cache memory
D)   Speed of the motherboard

Question 20

________ Law predicts that the number of transistors in a CPU will double about every two years.

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The answer of ________ Law predicts that the number of...

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Which of the following does NOT determine a CPU's processing power?

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