CSIT Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers

CSIT Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers an integrated circuit embodies what is called - Answer-solid state how many calculcation could ENIAC perform per second - Answer-5000 which company developed the first transistor in 1947 - Answer-bells labs the tiny piece of silicon that houses millions of micro miniature electronic cicuits is called a - Answer-chip the two digits used in the binary system are - Answer-0 and 1 a shelf or opening in a computer used for the installation of electronic equipment is called a - Answer-bay the devide that converts AC to DC to run the computer is called a - Answer-power supply one million ticks of the system clock per second is called - Answer-megahertz high speed storage areas that temporarily store data during processing are called - Answer-registers electrical data roadways thorugh which bits are transmitted within the CPU and other components of the motherboard are called - Answer-buses which port is used to transmit slow data over long distances - Answer-serial which of the folling ports transmit data to up to 127 devices in a daisy chain - AnswerUSB which type of cards are used for remote communications via phone lines - Answermodem cards a byte represents - Answer-one character a byte is made up of how many bits? - Answer-eight power supply united are rater in - Answer-joules how many bytes make up a kilobyte - Answer-1024 how many pages of text is a megabyte - Answer-500 about one billion bytes is a - Answer-gigabytes which type of processor is designed to let the operating system divide the work over more than one - Answer-multicore which of the following is not an expression of a floating point - Answer-microflops a cpu is made up of two parts the control unit and the - Answer-ALU a bay is not apart of the - Answer-CPU a memory chip used to store fixed start up instructions - Answer-RAM not a form of nonvolatile memory - Answer-ROM type of memory module has RAM chips on both sides - Answer-DIMM not a method of speeding up data traveling between memory and CPU - Answerinterleaving form of superscalar architecture - Answer-hyperthreading converts signals from the computer into video signals that can be displayed as images on a monitor - Answer-video card a card that allows remote communication via cable - Answer-PC cards not a secondary storage device - Answer-ROM also called a versatile disk - Answer-DVD- ROM smart cards are well suited for prepaid, disposable applications such as - Answertelephone debit cards type of optical disk designed to enable recording rewriting and playback of HD video, as well as storing large amounts of data - Answer-blu ray smart cards are not used to - Answer-back up data data is respresented by magnetized or non magnetized spots on a - Answer-magnetic tape good media source for backing up large files - Answer-blu ray based on the theory of physics that explains the erratic behavior of the atom - Answerquantum computing devices called that translate data into a form the computer can process - Answer-input hardware data entered into a computer for processing is called - Answer-output hardware results of processing are ref