Unit 5: Hardware and Software

Megahertz abbreviation is ________.

MHz

All of the following are common ports that are included with laptop computers except ________. HDMI ports. MIDI ports. USB ports. Ethernet ports.

MIDI ports.

Windows OS is owned and maintained by ________.

Microsoft

Which of the following might be risky to uninstall from a Windows PC laptop? Microsoft Works 6-9 Converter Cisco WebEx meetings Angry Birds Apple Software Update

Microsoft Works 6-9 Converter

MIDI is an acronym that stands for?

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Choose the colors to create pixels on most output devices.

Red, blue, and green

Which of the following is not a presentation software term? Speaker Notes Slide Speaker Image Slide Master

Speaker Image

True or false? The platform or operating system of a computer controls all of the functions of a computer.

True

True or flase? The amount of RAM a computer comes with or the ability to expand its RAM is an important consideration when buying a new device.

True

allows for data transfer between devices and for devices to be electrically charged

USB

Which are important considerations when purchasing a new computer? What is its price? How much RAM comes with it? Does it come with Windows NT? Does the device have USB ports?

What is its price? How much RAM comes with it? Does the device have USB ports?

Select the reasons you might purchase a tablet computer. You need a computer that you can use while walking. You need a highly mobile computer that works well for reading e-books or for online gaming. You need a computer you can easily upgrade with additional memory or RAM. You need a computer with a large amount of storage.

You need a computer that you can use while walking. You need a highly mobile computer that works well for reading e-books or for online gaming. You need a computer with a large amount of storage.

a slot or hole that matches the cord or expansion card being connected to the port

port

Select what's true about utility programs. program that performs a specific maintenance type of task program that performs a specific maintenance type of task common examples include disk formatting, disk cleanup, and disk defragmenting Microsoft Office is a common utility program.

program that performs a specific maintenance type of task program that performs a specific maintenance type of task common examples include disk formatting, disk cleanup, and disk defragmenting

Which type of touchscreen uses a single metallic-coated panel and uses electricity to calculate touch points?

projective capacitive

FireWire connectors were developed for ________ computers.

Apple

A wireless short-range transmission protocol is called ________.

Bluetooth

True or flase? Traditional hard drives have no moving parts.

False Traditional hard drive are magnetic and have many moving parts.

a type of Thunderbolt port, commonly found on older Apple computers

FireWire

The ________ computer creates images on your computer.

GPU

Today, the standard port for video and audio input on TV is the ________ port.

HDMI

Most tablets and phones use ________ as their main storage device.

SSD

The two main factors that affect the speed of the processor are clock speed and ________.

bus width

Reasons to purchase a desktop computer include

business workspace families gamers

On a cable, the connector is the end that connects to a port.

connector

The correct way to measure the screen size of a computer monitor is?

diagonally from one corner to the other

RAM is ________ and has no moving parts.

electronic (solid state)

An application that navigates all of the files and folders on your Mac is the ________.

finder

Adding software to a digital device, or adding hardware components to a digital device is called ________.

installing

A computer platform is commonly referred to as an ________ system or OS.

operating

What manages hardware and software, supports the computer's basic functions, and runs programs?

operating system

A processor that consists of one control unit and one ALU is called a ________.

single-core processor

Data from the hard drive reaches the CPU ________ than data from the RAM.

slower

The average tablet has a ________ hard drive compared to the average desktop.

smaller

A kilobyte is equal to approximately one ________ bytes.

thousand

Maintenance type tasks can be executed using ________ programs that are included with most operating systems.

utility