A processor, an I/O mechanism and memory - Answers At the most basic level, a computer is a device
consisting of what three pieces
2^10 - Answers Expressed as a power of two there are how many kilobytes in a megabyte
2^20 - Answers Expressed as a power of two there are how many megabytes in a terabyte
40 - Answers A terabyte represents what power of two
106 - Answers How many nanoseconds are in a millisecond
10 - Answers A kilobyte represents what power of two
30 - Answers A gigabyte represents what power of two
Aspect ratio - Answers The ratio of horizontal pixels to vertical pixels that a monitor can display is its
what?
Rock's law - Answers The statement "The cost of capital equipment to build semiconductors will double
every four years."is known as what?
Registers, an arithmetic-logic unit and a control unit - Answers In the Von Neumann architecture, the
central processing unit consists of what three components?
The Harvard architecture - Answers Computers designed using what archetecture have two buses: one
for data and one for instructions
Multi core architecture - Answers Computer chips having multiple processing units on a single chip are
what kind of architecture
F - Answers T/F
Computer architecture encompasses all physical aspects of computer systems
T - Answers T/F
Any task done by software can also be done using computer hardware, and any operation performed
directly by hardware can be done using software
F - Answers T/F
At its most basic level, a computer consists of only two parts: A processor and an I/O device.
F - Answers T/F
There are one billion microseconds in a second