CS 1 - Exam 2 - Review Questions

Multiple choice: Partitions are referred to as ______ a. physical drives b. logical drives c. partition drives d. t-wood drives

b.) logical drives

Multiple choice: _______ optical discs can be recorded on, erased, and overwritten like magnetic disks. a. erasable b. rereadable c. rewritable d. recordable

c.) rewritable

Multiple choice: The number of bits to store color information for each pixel is called _______ a. pixel depth b. color concentration c. byte resolution d.) bit depth

d.) bit depth

Multiple choice: Instructions flow in and out of the cpu via the __________ a. control unit b. prefetch unit c. decode unit d. bus interface unit

d.) bus interface unit

True or False: OCR is used by banks to process checks.

false

True or False: RFID tags need to be within line of sight of a reader.

false

True or False: ROM, also called main memory, stores operating system when a computer is running.

false

True or False: The control unit translates instructions so that cpu can understand.

false

Multiple choice: A ____ is an electronic path that data travels on a. bus b. lane c. word d. cache

a.) bus

Multiple choice: A computer ______ is the amount of data the cpu can manipulate at one time. a. word b. character c. bit d. byte

a.) word

True or False: Early computers required programming in machine language.

true

True or False: a graphics tablet is also called a digitizing tablet

true