ITE 115 - Exam 1|151 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Updated 2024
What exactly is a computer? - ️️Devices that process data. Help organize, sort and categorize data to turn it into information. What are a computer's four main functions? - ️️1. Input: Gather Data or allow users to enter data 2. Process: manipulate, calculate, or organize that data 3. Output: display data and information in a form suitable for the user 4. Storage: save data and information for later use What is the difference between data and information? - ️️Data is a representation of a factor idea. Information is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion. What are bits and bytes, and how are they measured? - ️️The language computers use to process data is called binary language. Consists of two numbers 0 and 1. Each 0 and each 1 is a bit. 8 bits create 1 byte. Each special character consists of 8 bits (1 byte) What devices can I use to get information out of the computer? - ️️Monitors (soft copies). Printers (hard copies). What's on the motherboard? - ️️Contains the CPU which coordinates all other functions on the computer. CPU - ️️Effected by speed of processor, amount of cash memory and amount of processing cores RAM - ️️Where all data and instructions are held while computer is running
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