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