ITE 221 EXAMS COMPREHENSIVE RECENT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔RAM - ✔✔In current computer hardware, main memory is implemented with silicon-
based semiconductor devices commonly called ______ .
✔✔mechanical clock - ✔✔In a computation device, a(n0 ______ is a driven by a spring
and pendulum, and each swing of the pendulum allows a gear to move one step under
pressure from the spring.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔A typical computer system must have much more secondary storage
capacity than primary storage capacity.
✔✔photon - ✔✔A particle of light is a called a ______.
✔✔Pentium processors - ✔✔______ improved memory access and raw CPU speeds
and added features such as support for higher-speed system buses, pipelined
instruction execution, and multimedia processing instructions.
✔✔end users - ✔✔Most application software is used by ______.
✔✔on the surface of a DVD - ✔✔Data can be represented as pulses of light and stored
indirectly, such as ______.
, ✔✔physical - ✔✔A ______ network is a complex combination of communication,
methods of data transmission, and network hardware devices.
✔✔server - ✔✔The term ______ can describe computers as samll as microcomputers
and as large as supercomputers.
✔✔optical - ✔✔______ signals can carry more data than electrical signals.
✔✔pulses of light - ✔✔Data can be represented as ______ and stored directly, such as
an image as a hologram.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔The biggest impetus for the change to electronic computing devices
cam during World War I.
✔✔distributed resources - ✔✔The complexity of modern networks arises from the huge
quantity of ______.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔Electronic computers addressed most shortcomings of mechanical
computation.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Mechanical computers were used during World War I to compute
trajectory tables for naval guns and torpedoes.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔A computer system requires at least two hardware devices to connect
to a network.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔In classical physics, a subatomic particle such as a photon, can be in
multiple places at one time.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Mechanical computation devices cannot perform complex calculations.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔Allocating and accessing resources are complex when a user or
program can request resources that aren't on the local computer and aren't managed by
locally installed system software.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔A physical network can be implemented with a dizzying array of
technologies and architectural approaches.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔One computer can use the CPU or storage but not the I/O devices of
another.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Devices such as printers and secondary storage arrays cannot be
attached directly to the network.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔RAM - ✔✔In current computer hardware, main memory is implemented with silicon-
based semiconductor devices commonly called ______ .
✔✔mechanical clock - ✔✔In a computation device, a(n0 ______ is a driven by a spring
and pendulum, and each swing of the pendulum allows a gear to move one step under
pressure from the spring.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔A typical computer system must have much more secondary storage
capacity than primary storage capacity.
✔✔photon - ✔✔A particle of light is a called a ______.
✔✔Pentium processors - ✔✔______ improved memory access and raw CPU speeds
and added features such as support for higher-speed system buses, pipelined
instruction execution, and multimedia processing instructions.
✔✔end users - ✔✔Most application software is used by ______.
✔✔on the surface of a DVD - ✔✔Data can be represented as pulses of light and stored
indirectly, such as ______.
, ✔✔physical - ✔✔A ______ network is a complex combination of communication,
methods of data transmission, and network hardware devices.
✔✔server - ✔✔The term ______ can describe computers as samll as microcomputers
and as large as supercomputers.
✔✔optical - ✔✔______ signals can carry more data than electrical signals.
✔✔pulses of light - ✔✔Data can be represented as ______ and stored directly, such as
an image as a hologram.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔The biggest impetus for the change to electronic computing devices
cam during World War I.
✔✔distributed resources - ✔✔The complexity of modern networks arises from the huge
quantity of ______.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔Electronic computers addressed most shortcomings of mechanical
computation.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Mechanical computers were used during World War I to compute
trajectory tables for naval guns and torpedoes.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔A computer system requires at least two hardware devices to connect
to a network.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔In classical physics, a subatomic particle such as a photon, can be in
multiple places at one time.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Mechanical computation devices cannot perform complex calculations.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔Allocating and accessing resources are complex when a user or
program can request resources that aren't on the local computer and aren't managed by
locally installed system software.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔A physical network can be implemented with a dizzying array of
technologies and architectural approaches.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔One computer can use the CPU or storage but not the I/O devices of
another.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔Devices such as printers and secondary storage arrays cannot be
attached directly to the network.
