CMP 101 Midterm Exam Study Guide.
Communications - answer✔✔high speed movement of data or information
what improves hard drive performance? - answer✔✔disk cache, located on the circuit board
within the hard drive case
control unit - answer✔✔switches from one stage to the next and performs the action of that stage
what does the control unit do? (4) - answer✔✔fetch, decode, execute, and store
motherboard - answer✔✔circuit board that connects the CPU to the other system components
the motherboard contains? - answer✔✔system clock and microprocessor
system clock - answer✔✔generates pulses to synchronize the computer's activities
microprocessor - answer✔✔the cpu
ALU - answer✔✔responsible for performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
ethical principles - answer✔✔a. defines the standards that promote trust, fairness, good behavior,
and kindness.
b. are used as justification for considering an act or a rule to be morally right or wrong.
c. are tools which are used to think through difficult situations.
computer ethics - answer✔✔the use of basic ethical principles to help you make the right
decision in your daily computer use
ethics - answer✔✔a. are standards of moral conduct
b. standards of right and wrong behavior
c. a gauge of personal integrity
d. the basis of trust and cooperation in relationships with others
netiquette - answer✔✔a series of specific behavior guidelines when using the computer and
interNET for discussion forums.