WEEK FOUR Flashcards
Which of the following types of storage would typically contain data that only needs to be read and written infrequently?
A. RAM
PRIMARY STORAGE
SECONDARY STORAGE
CACHE
SECONDARY STORAGE
Which of the following types of storage would typically contain data that only needs to be read and written infrequently?
RAM
CACHE
ROM
VOLATILE
CACHE
Data that must be written quickly is often written to ROM rather than to secondary storage because it is much faster. T/F
FALSE
The central processing unit performs the actual computation or “number crunching” inside a computer.
T/F
T
Which of the following types of computers would usually take up an entire large room and have hundreds of thousands of CPUs?
QUANTUM OMPUTER
SUPER COMPUTER
MAINFRAME COMPUTER
MOORES COMPUTER
SUPER COMPUTER
WHAT IS THE A IN RAM
ARITHMIC
ACCELERATED
AVATAR
ACCESS
ACCESS
Which of the following CPUs is most likely to be able to process data the fastest, all else being equal?
A. 3.0 GHz, quad-core, hyperthreaded
B.THEY ARE SAME
C. 3.0 GHz, quad-core, Turbo Boost up to 3.2 GHz
A
A traditional Hard Disk Drive differs from a Solid State Drive in that it:
A. HAS SPINNING MAGNETIC PLATTER
B. IS VOLATILE STORAGE
C. HAS FASTERR/WRITE SPEEDS
D. CONTAINS TRANSISTORS FOR STOERAGE
A
Which of the following best describes “volatile” storage?
A. It uses rapid fluctuations in voltage to write data.
B. It reads and writes data in random order
C. It is prone to data corruption
D. Data is lost when power is lost
DATA IS LOST WHEN POWER IS LOST
Which of the following may be a consideration when choosing a GPU?
CLOCKSPEED
NOMBER OF CORES
PRIMARY STORAGE
NONE
ALL
ALL
Which of the following is an output technology?
MONITOR
STYLUS
KEYBOARD
MOUSE
MONITOR
Which of the following is the primary benefit of adding more RAM to a computer?
A. You can run more applications at the same time
B. It speeds up the computer
C. It speeds up rendering of graphics
D. You can have more files on your computer, such as apps, music, and movies
A
Which of the following is not a type of secondary storage?
REGISTER
FLASH DRIVE
MAGNETIC DISK
OPTICAL DRIVE
REGISTER
Magnetic tape storage is outdated technology that is rarely used anymore. T/F
F
