Computing - Term 1 Cycle Test

Question 1

What is an imput device?

Answer 1

A device that is used to give information to a device.

A hardware that sends data into a computer that sends data to the computer system from the outside world.

Question 2

What is an output device?

Answer 2

A hardware that receives data from the computer system to the real world, representing it in some form for the user.

Question 3

What is a storage device?

Answer 3

A hardware that save data so that it can be recalled and used again.

Question 3

What are some examples of a output device?

Answer 3

Speaker
Monitor
Printer
Headphones
GPS devices
Projectors

Question 4

What are some examples of a imput device?

Answer 4

Keyboard
Mouse
Controller
Microphone
Touch screen
Scanner
Joystick

Question 4

What are some examples of a storage device?

Answer 4

SIM card
USB
SSD
Hard Drive
RAM
ROM
Pen drive
Magnetic Disk
Floppy disk

Question 5

What is a motherboard?

Answer 5

Connects all the parts of the components.

Question 6

What is a CPU?

Answer 6

Central Processing Unit

Question 7

What is a RAM?

Answer 7

Store currently running instructions + Applications.

Short Term Memory

Question 8

What is a Hard Disk Drive

Answer 8

Stores everything that has been saved to the storage for the long term storage.

Question 9

What is BIOS?

Answer 9

Basic Imput Output System

Question 10

What is an ALU?

Answer 10

Arithmetic Logic Unit.

It performs arithmetic calculation and makes logical decisions.

Question 11

What is a CU?

Answer 11

Control Unit.

Sends signals to control how data moves around the CPU.

Question 12

What is a Cache?

Answer 12

It provides fast access to frequently used instructions and data.

Personal storage for the CPU.

Temporary storage.

Question 13

What is a register?

Answer 13

A type of computer memory used to quickly accept, store and transfer data and instructions that the CPU needs immediately.

Question 14

What factors affect the CPU performance?

Answer 14

Clock speed

Cache size

Number of cores

Question 15

How does the clock speed affect the CPU performance?

Answer 15

The faster the clock speed, the faster the computer is able to run fetch-decode-execute cycles.

Question 16

How does the number of cores affect the CPU performance?

Answer 16

CPUs with multiple cores have more power to run multiple programs at the same time.

Question 17

How does the cache size affect the CPU performance?

Answer 17

The larger the cache size, the less time a processor has to wait for instructions to be fetched.

Question 18

What are the disadvantages of more cores?

Answer 18

Doubling the number of cores won’t double processing speed.

Cores need to communicate with each other, which takes this.

Question 19

What is ROM stand for?

Answer 19

Random Access Memory

Question 20

What is ROM stand for?

Answer 20

Read Only Memory

Question 21

What is is the does ROM have that RAM doesn’t have?

Answer 21

Read only memory

Non-volatile

Permeant data

Boot strap loader (BIOS)

Part of the operating system

Question 22

What is is the does ROM have that RAM doesn’t have?

Answer 22

Random access memory

Volatile

Temporary memory

Currently used applications

Data + Instructions

Question 23

What does the computer systems diagram look like?

Answer 23

Communication

Imput———->Processing, Primary Storage ———-> Output

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