End of Year Exams

Question 1

What is a peripheral device?

Answer 1

Not directly connected to a CPU

Is an input, output or storage device.

Question 1

What are the steps to converting bytes to megabytes?

Answer 1

/1000
/1000

Question 2

What is the order of the units of data from smallest to largest?

Answer 2

Bit
Nibble
Byte
Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte

Question 3

What type of device is a microphone?

Answer 3

input

Question 4

What is the purpose of ROM in a computer system?

Answer 4

Stores BIOS and BootStrap Loader

Question 5

Why is the boot strap loader so important?

Answer 5

needed to start up the computer

Question 6

If there is 2TB of storage and each photo is 2MB how many can fit?

Answer 6

2x1000=2000GB
2000x1000=2,000,000MB
2,000,000/2=1,000,000 photos

Question 7

What does digital divide mean?

Answer 7

The difference between the people who have access to a device to the people who do not. There are cirtain groups that are affected by it. These are the elderly, the poor and the geographically remote cities.

Question 8

What are some examples of application software?

Answer 8

Word processing
Spreadsheet
Presentation
Image processing

Question 9

What is cashe?

Answer 9

provides fast access to frequently used instructions and data