Computing Essentials 2019 27Th Edition By Timothy O Leary -Test Bank

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Computing Essentials 2019, 27e (O’Leary)

Chapter 5   The System Unit

 

1) With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit.

  1. A) desktop systems
  2. B) personal digital assistants
  3. C) smartphones
  4. D) laptop computers

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

2) This type of computer is a thin slab that is almost all monitor with the system unit located behind the monitor.

  1. A) laptop
  2. B) tablet
  3. C) desktop
  4. D) smartphone

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

3) A byte is formed by a group of ________.

  1. A) 4 bits
  2. B) 8 bits
  3. C) 12 bits
  4. D) 16 bits

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

4) Which of the following is not a character encoding standard?

  1. A) EBCDIC
  2. B) ASCII
  3. C) CISC
  4. D) Unicode

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Analyze

AACSB:  Analytic; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

5) This character encoding scheme allows non-English characters and special characters to be represented.

  1. A) ASCII
  2. B) Unicode
  3. C) EBCDIC
  4. D) ANSIC

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

6) The system board is also known as the ________.

  1. A) expansion slot
  2. B) motherboard
  3. C) expansion card
  4. D) bus

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Board

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.

 

7) On the motherboard, the connection points for chips are referred to as ________.

  1. A) slots
  2. B) sockets
  3. C) ports
  4. D) lines

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Board

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.

 

8) Tiny circuit boards etched onto squares of sandlike material, called silicon, are called ________.

  1. A) buses
  2. B) slots
  3. C) sockets
  4. D) chips

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Board

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.

 

9) Integrated circuits typically are mounted on ________, which are then plugged into the system board.

  1. A) slots
  2. B) pins
  3. C) ports
  4. D) chip carriers

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  System Board

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.

 

 

10) Which of the following is a function of the control unit?

  1. A) It provides pathways that support communication among the various electronic components.
  2. B) It directs the movement of electronic signals between memory and the arithmetic-logic unit.
  3. C) It performs fundamental math operations like addition, subtraction, and so on.
  4. D) It uses the logic to compare two pieces of data.

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

11) Pathways that support communication among the various electronic components on the system board are called ________.

  1. A) bus lines
  2. B) network lines
  3. C) logic paths
  4. D) gate ways

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Board

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-02 Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.

 

12) In most personal computer systems, the CPU is contained on a single chip called the ________.

  1. A) semiconductor
  2. B) ALU
  3. C) microprocessor
  4. D) control unit

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

13) Term used to describe the number of bits that a CPU can access at one time.

  1. A) bitrate
  2. B) word
  3. C) pulse width
  4. D) character

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

14) A 32-bit-word computer can access ________.

  1. A) 2 bytes at a time
  2. B) 16 bytes at a time
  3. C) 4 bytes at a time
  4. D) 8 bytes at a time

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

15) The processing speed of a microprocessor is typically represented by its ________.

  1. A) bus line
  2. B) control unit
  3. C) clock speed
  4. D) ALU

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

 

16) Which of the following allows a computer to run two or more operations simultaneously?

  1. A) coprocessors
  2. B) multiplexing
  3. C) multicore processors
  4. D) binary system

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

17) For multicore processors to be used effectively, computers must understand how to divide tasks into parts that can be distributed across each core—an operation called ________.

  1. A) arithmetic-logic processing
  2. B) multiplexer processing
  3. C) parallel processing
  4. D) graphics coprocessing

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

18) A type of specialty processor devoted exclusively to protecting your privacy.

  1. A) data cards
  2. B) micro cards
  3. C) cryptoprocessor
  4. D) embedded cards

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

19) These specialty chips are designed to improve specific computing operations such as displaying 3D images and encrypting data.

  1. A) smartcards
  2. B) CPUs
  3. C) coprocessors
  4. D) NIC cards

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

20) Frequently accessed information is held in ________.

  1. A) the hard drive
  2. B) cache memory
  3. C) flash memory
  4. D) read only memory

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

21) With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk.

  1. A) flash
  2. B) cache
  3. C) virtual
  4. D) extended

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

22) Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM?

  1. A) DRAM
  2. B) DDR
  3. C) flash memory
  4. D) cache memory

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

23) All the following are commonly used units of measurement to describe memory capacity, except ________.

  1. A) megabyte (MB)
  2. B) gigabyte (GB)
  3. C) terabyte (TB)
  4. D) nanobyte (NB)

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Analyze

AACSB:  Analytic; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

 

24) When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory.

  1. A) DRAM
  2. B) SDRAM
  3. C) cache
  4. D) flash

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

25) Most personal computers allow users to expand their systems by providing these on the system board.

  1. A) expansion slots
  2. B) ports
  3. C) sound cards
  4. D) network cards

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

26) Which of the following can be used to connect several devices to the system unit and are widely used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices?

  1. A) USB port
  2. B) SATA
  3. C) Parallel port
  4. D) Firewire bus

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

27) These types of ports typically provide high-definition video and audio, making it possible to use a computer as a video jukebox or an HD video recorder.

  1. A) HDMI
  2. B) Firewire
  3. C) Ethernet
  4. D) Thunderbolt

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

28) Which of the following ports is used for connecting musical instruments to a sound card?

  1. A) MiniDP
  2. B) S/PDIF
  3. C) MIDI
  4. D) eSATA

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

29) Which of the following ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices?

  1. A) eSATA
  2. B) S/PDIF
  3. C) HDMI
  4. D) MiniDP

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

 

30) Laptops typically use ________ that are typically located outside the system unit.

  1. A) AC adapters
  2. B) batteries
  3. C) power supply units
  4. D) MiniDc

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Power Supply

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-08 Identify power supplies for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices.

 

31) The ________, also known as the system chassis, is a container that houses most of the electronic components that make up a computer system.

  1. A) CPU
  2. B) system unit
  3. C) ALU
  4. D) microprocessor

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

32) ________, also known as mini notebooks, are lighter and thinner with longer battery life than most laptops.

  1. A) Semiconductors
  2. B) Microprocessors
  3. C) Tablets
  4. D) Ultrabooks

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

 

33) The most widely used character encoding standard today is ________.

  1. A) ASCII
  2. B) CISC
  3. C) EBCDIC
  4. D) Unicode

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

34) The ________ system consists of only two digits—0 and 1.

  1. A) binary
  2. B) multiplexing
  3. C) coprocessor
  4. D) multicore

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

35) A ________ is the number of bits that can be accessed at one time by the CPU.

  1. A) pulse width
  2. B) bit rate
  3. C) word
  4. D) character

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

 

36) ________ operations consist of making comparisons.

  1. A) Microprocessor
  2. B) Multicore
  3. C) Specialty
  4. D) Logical

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

37) A(n) ________-bit-word computer can access 8 bytes of information at a time.

  1. A) 64
  2. B) 128
  3. C) 256
  4. D) 512

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

38) ________ allow a single computer to run two or more operations at the same time.

  1. A) Parallel processors
  2. B) Multicore processors
  3. C) Coprocessors
  4. D) Graphics processors

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

 

39) ________ memory improves processing by acting as a temporary high-speed holding area between the memory and the CPU.

  1. A) Flash
  2. B) Virtual
  3. C) Cache
  4. D) Read-only

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

40) ________ memory uses the hard drive to substitute for RAM.

  1. A) Cache
  2. B) Flash
  3. C) Hard drive
  4. D) Virtual

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

41) For multicore processors to be used effectively, computers must understand how to divide tasks into parts that can be distributed across each core—an operation called ________.

  1. A) parallel processing
  2. B) graphic coprocessing
  3. C) multicore processing
  4. D) micro processing

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

42) ________ cards are used to connect a computer to a network.

  1. A) MiniDC
  2. B) Network adapter
  3. C) Battery
  4. D) AC adapter

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

43) ________ allow computers to be connected without cables.

  1. A) Expansion slots
  2. B) Sound cards
  3. C) Wireless network cards
  4. D) Ports

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

44) Network interface cards (NIC) are connected through ________ on the system board.

  1. A) wireless network cards
  2. B) ports
  3. C) sound cards
  4. D) expansion slots

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

 

45) ________ buses connect the CPU to memory on the system board.

  1. A) System
  2. B) Parallel
  3. C) Firewire
  4. D) SATA

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Bus Lines

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-06 Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.

 

46) The number of bits that can travel simultaneously down a bus is known as the bus ________.

  1. A) expandability
  2. B) width
  3. C) lines
  4. D) length

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Bus Lines

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-06 Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.

 

47) ________ ports are the standard high-speed networking ports for many of today’s computers.

  1. A) Specialized
  2. B) ASCII
  3. C) Ethernet
  4. D) Bus

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

 

48) ________ ports are a special type of port for connecting musical instruments to a sound card.

  1. A) S/PDIF
  2. B) MiniDP
  3. C) eSATA
  4. D) MIDI

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

49) ________ ports provide high-speed connections for external disk drives, optical disks, and other large secondary storage devices.

  1. A) eSATA
  2. B) MIDI
  3. C) Ethernet
  4. D) MiniDP

 

Answer:  A

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

50) ________ ports provide high-speed connections for up to seven separate devices connected one to another.

  1. A) MIDI
  2. B) Thunderbolt
  3. C) eSATA
  4. D) Ethernet

 

Answer:  B

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

 

51) ________ ports are audiovisual ports typically used to connect large monitors.

  1. A) MIDI
  2. B) S/PDIF
  3. C) MiniDP
  4. D) Thunderbolt

 

Answer:  C

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

52) Desktop computers have a ________ unit, located within the system unit, that plugs into a standard wall outlet, converts AC to DC, and provides the power to drive all the system unit components.

  1. A) battery
  2. B) bus
  3. C) miniDC
  4. D) power supply

 

Answer:  D

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Power Supply

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-08 Identify power supplies for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices.

 

53) The system unit, also known as the system chassis, is a container that houses most of the electronic components that make up a computer system.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

 

54) ASCII supports languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

55) The ALU tells the rest of the computer system how to carry out a program’s instructions.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

56) The control unit directs the movement of electronic signals between the memory and the ALU.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

57) A 64-bit-word computer can access 8 bytes at a time.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

 

58) Parallel processing requires a computer to perform one complete task before beginning the next task.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

59) RAM is considered temporary, or volatile, storage.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

60) Virtual memory is stored on a RAM chip.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Analyze

AACSB:  Analytic; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

61) Read-only memory (ROM) chips have information stored in them by the manufacturer.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Memory

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-04 Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.

 

 

62) Graphics cards connect the system board to secondary storage.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

63) The number of bits that can travel simultaneously down a bus is known as the word size.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Bus Lines

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-06 Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.

 

64) A bus is a pathway for bits representing data and instructions.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Bus Lines

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-06 Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.

 

65) VGA and DVI ports provide connections to monitors.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

 

66) USB ports are used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

67) FireWire ports are used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, and storage devices.

 

Answer:  FALSE

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

68) eSATA ports provide high-speed connections for external hard-disk drives, optical discs, and other large secondary storage devices.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

69) MiniDP ports are an audiovisual port typically used to connect large monitors.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

 

70) HDMI ports make it possible to use a computer as a video jukebox or an HD video recorder.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

 

71) Computers require direct current (DC) to power their electronic components and to represent data and instructions.

 

Answer:  TRUE

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic:  Power Supply

Bloom’s:  Remember

AACSB:  Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-08 Identify power supplies for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices.

 

72) Compare and contrast the five most common types of system units.

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  System Unit

Bloom’s:  Analyze

AACSB:  Analytic; Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-01 Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.

 

73) Describe the character encoding schemes.

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 3 Hard

Topic:  Electronic Data and Instructions

Bloom’s:  Analyze

AACSB:  Analytic; Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-09 Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically.

 

 

74) How is the multicore chip useful for personal computers?

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Microprocessor

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-03 Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.

 

75) Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Expansion Slots and Cards

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-05 Explain expansion slots and cards.

 

76) Describe the three principal types of expansion buses.

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Bus Lines

Bloom’s:  Understand

AACSB:  Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-06 Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.

 

77) Describe specialty ports including eSATA, MIDI, MiniDP, VGA, DVI, and FireWire.

 

Answer:  Answers will vary.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic:  Ports

Bloom’s:  Apply

AACSB:  Reflective Thinking; Technology

Accessibility:  Keyboard Navigation

Learning Outcome:  05-07 Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.

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