CSIT Test II Questions with Correct Answers

CSIT Test II Questions with Correct Answers An integrated circuit embodies what is called ________ technology. - Answer-Solid State How many calculations could ENIAC perform per second? - Answer-5,000 Which company developed the first transistor in 1947? - Answer-Bell Labs The tiny piece of silicon that houses millions of microminiature electronic circuits is called a __________. - Answer-chip The two digits used in the binary system are __________. - Answer-0 and 1 A byte represents ________. - Answer-one character A byte is made up of ________ bits. - Answer-eight How many bytes make up a kilobyte? - Answer-1,024 One ________ equals about 500 pages of text. - Answer-megabyte 1 billion bytes is a __________. - Answer-gigabyte For now, the largest measure of byte capacity is the __________. - Answer-Exabyte Every brand of computer has its own binary language, called __________. - Answermachine language A shelf or opening in a computer used for the installation of electronic equipment is called a __________. - Answer-bay The device that converts AC to DC to run the computer is called __________. - Answerpower supply Power supply units are rated in __________. - Answer-joules Which of these is/are processors commonly used in personal computers? - Answer-A. Intel B. Motorola C. AMD (D. all of these) Which type of processor is designed to let the operating system divide the work over more than one processor? - Answer-multicore One million cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________. - Answer-megahertz One billion cycles (ticks) of the system clock per second equal 1 __________. - Answergigahertz Which of the following is NOT an expression of floating point, or flop, operations? - Answer-microflops A ________ is one-trillionth of a second. - Answer-picosecond The CPU is made up of two parts: the control unit and the __________. - Answer-ALU Which of the following is NOT a part of the CPU? - Answer-bay High-speed storage areas that temporarily store data during processing are called __________. - Answer-registers Electrical data roadways through which bits are transmitted within the CPU and other components of the motherboard are called _________. - Answer-buses Which of the following is NOT a form of nonvolatile memory? - Answer-RAM Which of the following is not a method of speeding up data traveling between memory and CPU? - Answer-caching Which of the following memory chips are used to store fixed (permanent) start-up instructions? - Answer-ROM The process in which the CPU alternates communication between two or more memory banks is called _________. - Answer-interleaving Which of the following is a form of superscalar architecture? - Answer-hyperthreading Which port is used to transmit slow data over long distances? - Answer-serial Which of these ports is commonly used for printers? - Answer-parallel Which of the following ports transmit data to up to 127 devices in a daisy chain? - Answer-SCSI Which of the following ports allow cableless connections over a few feet? - Answer-IrDA Which of the following ports allow cableless connections over a few feet? A. dedicated - Answer-Ethernet Which type of cards are used for remote communications via phone lines? - Answermodem cards Which of the following cards allow remote communication via cable - Answer-network interface cards (NICs) Which of the following is NOT a secondary storage device? - Answer-ROM Which type of secondary storage i