Computer Skills Placement Objectives CSP.
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Hardware - Answer✔Computer case, keyboard, and monitor
Sofware - Answer✔Organized information in the form of operating systems, utilities, programs,
and applications that enable computers to work.
Information Technology (IT) - Answer✔Any computer-based tool that people use to work with
information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization
Central Processing Unit (CPU) - Answer✔Brain of the computer that performs instructions
defined by software
Hard Disk - Answer✔A data storage unit inside a computer that can store a large quantity of
data (60GB or more)
Input - Answer✔Data that is entered into the computer system via an input or storage device.
Output - Answer✔Data that is send out of the computer.
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Peripheral Device - Answer✔Devices that communicate with the CPU but are not located
directly on the motherboard(not part of the computer), such as the monitor, floppy drive,
printer, and mouse.
CPU Speed - Answer✔Measured in MHz (Megahertz) or GHz (Gigahertz).
Also referred to as the CPU clock.
RAM Speed - Answer✔Measure in MHz or Bytes. This measured the amount of time it takes the
module to deliver a data request
CPU Functions - Answer✔Fetch, Decode, Execute and Store
Fetch - Answer✔Each instruction is stored in memory and has its own address. The processor
takes this address number from the program counter, which is responsible for tracking which
instructions the CPU should execute next.
Decode - Answer✔Decode: All programs to be executed are translated to into Assembly
instructions. Assembly code must be decoded into binary instructions, which are
understandable to your CPU. This step is called decodin
Execute - Answer✔While executing instructions the CPU can do one of three things: Do
calculations with its ALU, move data from one memory location to another, or jump to a
different address.
Store - Answer✔The CPU must give feedback after executing an instruction, and the output
data is written to the memory.
Random Access Memory(RAM) & Read Only Memory (ROM) - Answer✔RAM is used for both
read and write while ROM is used only for reading.
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