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Hardware and Software
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- 1Name one type of Optical MediaCompact Disk
DVD
Blu Ray - 2What is Volatile Memory?A type of memory that is lost when the power is turned off.
- 3What cycle does the CPU use to carry out instructions?Fetch, decode and execute cycle
- 4Name an input device that can be linked to a speakerMicrophone
- 5Name an output device that can be linked with a mouseMonitor
- 6What is a communication device used for?To transmit data to another system and to receive data from other systems.
- 7What does RAM stand for?Random Access Memory
- 8What does ROM stand for?Read Only Memory
- 9What is the main job of ROM?Used to boot up the computer and its programs.
- 10True or False ROM is volatileFalse
- 11What does Virtual Memory do?When RAM is full, virtual memory takes a small section of the HDD and uses it to store data that the RAM would usually store.
- 12What does the Virtual Memory process prevent?The computer crashing.
- 13What does Cache Memory do?Stores instructions that have already been run so that the CPU only has to make a short journey to find the instruction instead of taking a longer journey to the RAM.
- 14In a NOT gate what would be the output if the input is 1?0
- 15What is the only combination of numbers in an AND gate that will give the output of 11 and 1
- 16For an OR gate an input of 1 and 0 would give an output of?1
- 17What is the clock speed of a CPU?The number of instructions per second that a CPU can complete.
- 18A CPU with clock speed of 6GHz would be able to complete how many instructions per second?6 Billion
- 19Give the order of memory sizes (smallest first)Bit
Nibble
Byte
Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte
Terabyte - 20what is the sentence that allows people to remember the memory sizes in order.Big Naughty Boys Kicked My Granny Twice.
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