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Question 1 of 11

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What is a foreign key?

Select one of the following:

  • Field used to link one data table with another

  • A key which can be used in any country

  • A primary key which must be unique.

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Question 2 of 11

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A crumb is half a byte (4 bits)

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 11

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What is the clock speed?

Select one of the following:

  • The speed of your clock

  • The 'beat' at which the computer works to.

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Question 4 of 11

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Clock speed is measured in gigahertz.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 5 of 11

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Bus Topology is when

Select one or more of the following:

  • All of the devices are connected to one cable which is called the backbone

  • There is one wire which connects all the computers together and data flows in 1 direction only

  • There is a central hub and a central server with a dedicated connection to each work station or device

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Question 6 of 11

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Advantages of Bus Topology are that

Select one or more of the following:

  • If the line breaks then only one workstation will be affected

  • It is cheap

  • Not many data collisions

  • Quick and easy to set up

  • There is a limit no on cable length

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Question 7 of 11

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Disadvantages of Bus Topology are that you could get data collisions, there is a limit on cable length, it is not suitable for networks with heavy traffic and if there is a break in the backbone the whole network fails

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 11

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

A nibble is ( 4 bits, 2 bits, 8 bits )
A megabyte is ( 1,024 bytes, 1,024 megabytes, 1,024 kilobytes )
A crumb is ( 4 bits, 2 bits, 8 bits )
A gigabyte is ( 1,024 megabytes, 1,024 kilobytes, 1,024 terabytes )
A byte is ( 1,024 bits, 8 bits, 12 bits )
A terabyte is ( 1,024 megabytes, 1,024 terabytes, 1,024 gigabytes )
A kilobyte is ( 1,024 megabytes, 1,024 bytes, 1,024 gigabytes )

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Question 9 of 11

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What does CPU stand for?

Select one of the following:

  • Central Progressing Unit

  • Central Processing Unit

  • Central Programming Unit

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Question 10 of 11

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

The CPU , and instructions.

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Question 11 of 11

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The high speed memory attached to the CPU which we use to store data or instructions we use regularly to save processing time is called the what?

Select one of the following:

  • Core

  • RAM

  • Cache

  • ROM

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