Mid Term

Question 1

Von Neuman bottleneck refers to a limit on throughput between ___________?

Answer 1

CPU and Memory

Question 2

Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley received a Nobel prize for inventing ______?

Answer 2

Transistor

Question 3

What N-type silicon is.

Answer 3

Silicon doped with phospherous is N-type (negative)

Question 4

The IBM used what type of processor

Answer 4

Intel 8088

Question 5

What is the decimal number 36 converted into binary?

Answer 5

100100

Question 6

What is the binary number 11111 converted into decimal

Answer 6

31

Question 7

What is the largest decimal number that can be represented with 7 bits?

Answer 7

127

Question 8

What power of 2 equals 65,536?

Answer 8

256/16 to the 2nd power

Question 9

If my computer has 2GB of RAM, how many bytes is this?

Answer 9

2,147,483,648

Question 10

What is the hexadecimal symbol equivalent to the binary number 1010?

Answer 10

A

Question 11

The Boolean operation is

Answer 11

AND, OR, NOT, or AND NOT

Question 12

USB controls how many usb ports?

Answer 12

8

Question 13

Name a type of USB generic hub.

Answer 13

Bus powered and self powered.

Question 14

RS-232 is used over which type of port?

Answer 14

Serial Port

Question 15

A null-cable is used between

Answer 15

two computers

Question 16

COM ports require which of the following resources?

Answer 16

IRQ and I/O port range.

Question 17

Which port was initially used for the printer?

Answer 17

Parallel port (LPT)

Question 18

What port is also known as firewire?

Answer 18

IEEE 1394

Question 19

Keyboards and mice initially used the _______ port.

Answer 19

PS/2

Question 20

This type of monitor uses a glass tube similar to a television display.

Answer 20

CRT

Question 21

This type of monitor uses liquid crystal cells

Answer 21

LCD

Question 22

What are the different types of video ports?

Answer 22

VGI, VGA, DVI, HDMI, S-video

Question 23

What type of printer uses heat to form symbols on special printer paper?

Answer 23

Thermal

Question 24

The I/O controller hub is also called the ____.

Answer 24

Southbridge

Question 25

Which form factor replaced the AT and baby-AT form factors?

Answer 25

ATX

Question 26

Which is the smallest BTX form factor?

Answer 26

pico BTX

Question 27

If a motherboard has 4 memory slots, how many must be filled for the system to boot up?

Answer 27

One

Question 28

Which expansion slot carries 32 bits of data and runs at 33 MHz?

Answer 28

PCI

Question 29

EIDE is also called

Answer 29

ATA/IDE

Question 30

What technology can accommodate other devices that are not hard drives?

Answer 30

SCSI

Question 31

List an example of L2 cache.

Answer 31

256kB

Question 32

What socket is used by an AMD processor?

Answer 32

Socket A

Question 33

How many processor cores are contained in an Intel Core 2 Quad chip?

Answer 33

4

Question 34

What are the difference between Intel and AMD processor?

Answer 34

Different processor sockets
Different types of instruction sets
Differences in dual-core and multi-core designs
Cache sizes
Performance versus clock speed

Question 35

Processing 2 execution threads in a single processor is called what?

Answer 35

Hyper threading

Question 36

Slowing down the processor’s clock speed when the workload is light is called

Answer 36

throttling

Question 37

Intel’s improvements to Intel’s MMX instructions are called ___.

Answer 37

SSE

Question 38

If cache memory does not contain the necessary data, where does the data come from?

Answer 38

Main memory

Question 39

32-bit software is limited to a maximum of _______ of RAM.

Answer 39

4 GB

Question 40

Splitting a single processor into multiple virtual machines is called _______?

Answer 40

Hardware based virtualisation.