Final Exam 2 Flashcards
1
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Overflow is when
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- Overflow is when there is no room to store the high-order bits when calculating a binary equation
2
Q
The range of a floating point is
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- The largest and smallest values that can be expressed
3
Q
The accuracy of a floating point is
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- How closely a numeric representation approximates a true value
4
Q
The precision of a floating point is
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- The amount of information we have about a value (the amount of decimal places that are end the end of the given measurement)
5
Q
How to stop pages in the batch file
A
- Pause
6
Q
Signed numbers use a ____ (__) and can be _________ between negative values and positive values
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- flag (bit), distinguished
7
Q
+7 signed vs unsigned
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- 0111 vs 111
8
Q
-2 and -6 in 3-bit signed form
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- 1010 and 1110
9
Q
Batch file, what does the CD command do?
A
Change the directory
10
Q
Solid State wear leveling – What is it? What does it do?
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- NAND memory will wear out after (very) many erase/write cycles
- The SSD controller will try to wear the drive out evenly to extend the drives full capacity and performance
11
Q
Backup – incremental, differential
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- Incremental: Only back up the new or changed files since the last backup
o Takes longer than differential to restore - Differential: Only back up new or changed files since the last full backup
o Differential takes longer to back up than incremental
12
Q
Your computer, is it Von Neumann or Harvard
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- Modern computers use a modified version of Harvard architecture, with separate buses for data and instructions
13
Q
What is the disk cleanup?
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- Analyzes the hard drive for expendable files (temp files that are safe to delete) to recover space.
14
Q
In the properties tab, you can add and edit the ____ and ______
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title and author
15
Q
Properties are used to
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- Organize and sort files
