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Question:The best description of a port: 1. Module which stores data 2. Way for the peripheral to connect to the computer 3. Station where bus on the motherboard drop off data 4. Drawing utensil in the DTP
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Question: Which of the following statements are TRUE with regard to Expansion cards? 1. Credit card used for shopping 2. TV game cards 3. Separate boards containing circuitry to control peripherals 4. Card used to represent picture on the screen
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Question:Which of the following are ports? 1. COM, LPT, WAN 2. MAN, LAN, USB 3. COM, LPT, USB 4. BIOS, CMOS, LPT
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Question: The LPT port is the port most frequently used to connect the PC to the... 1. CPU 2. Screen 3. Printer 4. Mouse
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Question: The hard drive is made up of... 1. Clusters, Track and registers 2. Tracks, RAM and ROM 3. Platters, read-writte heads and a single access arm 4. The I/O bus
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Question: The speed of the hard drive is determined by... 1. The program counter containing the address of the next introdution 2. The speed of the cache memory 3. Access time of the video card and data transfer rate of the drive 4. Access time of the hard drive and data transfer rate of the drive
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Question: Which of the following statements is TRUE with regard to computer modules? 1. Easy to see and hold 2. Easy to change and interchange 3. Are program 4. Are expensive
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Question:Which of the following statements is TRUE? 1. The COM port is a parallel port 2. The LPT port connect the mouse to the CPU 3. The LPT is a serial port 4. The LPT port connects the PC to a printer
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Question:Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? 1. The USB port allows up to 127 devices to be chained into one port. 2. The keyboard plugs direct into the motherboard 3. The printer plugs into the serial port 4. The AGP graphic card plugged into a AGP port is faster than a graphic card plugged into a PCI port
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Question :Access time... 1. Is influenced by the new INTEL AGP card 2. Convert an address indicating the physical position on the disk. 3. Is how long it takes to locate a piece of information and make it available to the computer for processing. 4. Affects the computer capacity to store data
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Question: Circuit board that provides additional capabilities for a computer: 1. Adapter 2. Motherboard 3. Sound card 4. Video card
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Question: Device connected to and controlled by a computer, but external to the computers' central processing unit. 1. Motherboard 2. Peripheral device 3. Video card 4. Sound card
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Question: Large circuit board containing the computer's central processing unit, microprocessor chips, RAM and expansion slots is called the... 1. Motherboard 2. Expansion card 3. Hard disk interface 4. Adapter
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Question: "The Pentum microprocessor has a 32-bit architecture. The speed of the computer is influenced by this architecture.' Which of the following statements has the most bearing on the statement? 1. The width of a register influences speed 2. Defraging a system speed up a computer 3. Large amounts of RAM speeds up a computer 4. The RAM of video card influences speed
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Question:The speed of the hard drive is determined by... 1. The number of registers that CPU has 2. Access time of the hard drive and data transfer rate of the the drive 3. The width of the data bus 4. The width of the address bus
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Question:An organised collection of information on a disk like a word-processor document or a program, is referred to as a(n)... 1. File 2. Kilobyte 3. Record 4. Address
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Question: Electronic standard for the connection of a hard disk to a computer: 1. Double speed drive 2. Hard disk interface 3. SCSI 4. Access time
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Question:Large capacity data storage medium for computers, on which information is stored at extremely high density in the form of tiny pits: 1. Optical disk 2. Floppy disk 3. Stiffy disk 4. Hard disk drive
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Question: Socket that enables a computer processor to communicate with an external device: 1. Port 2. Register 3. Motheboard 4. Keyboard
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Question:A microprocessor is one type of ultra-large-scale integrated... 1. Circuit 2. Motherboard 3. Memory 4. Cache
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Question:On the motherboard (the)….... is the temporary computer memory area in which data can be stored 1. RAM 2. Expansion slot 3. ROM BIOS 4. Math-co processor
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Question: The fastest of the memory types listed: DRAM, EDO RAM, ROM, SRAM 1. DRAM 2. ROM 3. EDO RAM 4. SRAM
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Question: Stored in RAM when the computer is switched off: Stored in RAM when the computer is switched off: 1. Programs 2. Data 3. BIOS 4. Nothing
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Question: Part of a system used to store data and programs either permanently or temporarily: 1. Port 2. Cache 3. Register 4. Memory
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Question:Carry digital information throughout the chip and computer: 1. Clocks 2. Registers 3. Circuit 4. Buses
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Question:Which of the following statements is FALSE? 1. SRAM is used for cache 2. DRAM is used for normal primary memory 3. SDRAM is replacing EDO RAM in most new computer 4. DRAM is used for cache memory
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Question: People who want to troubleshoot hardware and software problems study and obtain a(n)... 1. A + certificate 2. B.Sc degree 3. B + certificate 4. CNE
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Question:Cache memory... 1. Is special high speed memory designed to accelerate processing instructions to CPU. 2. Carry signals that tell memory if the CPU wants to read or write 3. Decode the instruction 4. Convert signal into digital format
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Question:Unit of measurement, composed of bits and bytes, that can be stored in one memory location name: 1. Bit 2. Word 3. Byte 4. Kb
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Question:The instruction cycle involves: A. Fetching the next instruction to be executed from memory to the CPU. B. Control unit decodes the instruction. C. Data is transferrred. D. The instruction is executed. 1. A, B, C, D 2. B, C, D, A 3. D, A, B, C 4. C, B, D, A
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Question:Which type of ROM is being referred to?- The BIOS on this ROM can be upgraded by making used of software (flashing): 1. PROM 2. EPROM 3. ROM 4. EEPROM
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Question:What is being referred to? - An electronic pathway along which signals can be sent from one part of a computer to another. 1. Cache 2. Slot 3. Wire 4. Bus
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Question: Component of the CPU that decodes, synchronises and executes program instructions: 1. Arithmetric/logic unit 2. SIMN 3. Control unit 4. BIOS
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Question:Set of wires running from the CPU to RAM: 1. City Tramways bus 2. Data bus 3. Address bus 4. System bus
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Question:If you had an internal modem, into which part of the motherboard would you slot the card? 1. SIMM 2. Expansion slot 3. Central processing unit 4. Bus
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Question:The fastest type of video cards suitable for the latest version of Quake: 1. 3 D 2. 2 D 3. AGP 4. Standard
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Question:Most sound cards use the... connection slots: 1. ISA 2. USB 3. SCSI 4. PCI
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Question: The extension of a sound file: 1..avi 2..wav 3..jpg 4..midi
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Question: CPU processing functions regulator that produces a pulse at regular intervals: 1. Cache 2. Bus 3. Megahertz 4. System clock
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Question: Read-write heads, platters and single access arms are found in... 1. ROM 2. Hard drives 3. Packets 4. Cylinders
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Question:What implications does video editing have on secondary storage? 1. Make no difference 2. Need great deal of secondary storage space 3. Uses space more efficently and helps reduce the size of secondary storage. 4. Impossible to store on a home system.
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Question:Which of the following architecture features did these Internet journalists require? 1. Large amounts of RAM, fast processor and good video card 2. Fast processor,sound card and large screen 3. Good web program 4. Voiced activated software
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Question:... memory is volatile. 1. External 2. Secondary 3. ROM 4. RAM
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Question:Bus that connects the CPU and memory, providing a pathway to the computer's peripherals: 1. Data bus 2. Address bus 3. System bus 4. Golden Arrow bus
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Question: The computer platform which developed the GUI interface: 1. IBM 2. Apple 3. Acorn 4. BBC
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Question:The smallest unit of information that a computer can handle: 1. Byte 2. Bit 3. Word 4. Mb
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Question:The video card directly influences... The video card directly influences... 1. A virtual community 2. The quality of gaphics and color on a screen 3. Download speed from the internet 4. Virtual memory
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Question: of a computer refers to the unique combination of hardware components that will meet the requirements of a user. 1. Latency 2. Configuration 3. Plug and play 4. Interfacing
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Question:Bus system that has expansion slots on the motherboard: 1. Open bus system 2. Close bus system 3. System clock 4. System 7
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