CGS 2060 Ch 1

Port

A point (hole or slot) in a computer, designed to except specific connector

Some computers use _______, an 8-bit Coding scheme to represent characters in a binary format

ASCII

A channel over which information flows inside a digital device is called a

Bus

A channel which information flows inside a digital device is called a

Bus

Two major factors that impact processor speed Are clock speed and

Bus width

Screen sizes measured by the_______ across the monitor

Diagonal

Memeory is _____ and has no moving parts

Electronic (solid state)

The machine stale consists of which 4 steps

Fetch, decode, execute, and store

Equals 1billion cycles per second

Gigahertz

The visual image I'll put that in the computer creates is known as

Graphics

Equals one cycle per second

Hertz

Abbreviation for megahertz is

MHz

Equals 1 million cycles

Megahertz

Actual number of pixels in a monitor is called

Native resolution

The average tablet computer has a _______ hard drive than the average desk computer

Smaller

Which has the most storage capacity? Megabits Gigabyte Terabyte Kilobyte

Terabyte

The maximum number of bits per instruction that a CPU can process during one machine cycle is called

Word size