Chapter 3 Quiz - Technology for Success (Hardware)

byte

8 bits

Solid State Drive (SSD)

A storage device that uses the same kind of memory that flash drives use but that can reach data in only a tenth of the time a flash drive requires.

Which of the following refers to a condition in which the CPU performs well but the bus speed is slow?

Bottlenecking

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Brain of the computer that performs instructions defined by software. Data travels through buses.

Jennifer recently bought a new computer to type a new manuscript she's been working on. She also stored a lot of movies on it to watch during her free time. Though the performance was good at the begining, it deteriorated quickly over a small period of time. Which of these is the most likely cause?

Declining free space on the hard drive

Which of the following is a game controller that is held with both hands and used to control movement of on-screen objects by pressing buttons and moving hardware components?

Gamepad

The hard disk drive on Joyce's laptop can store up to 500 GB of data. She usually only saves official documents and a few songs that she listens to while she works. However, when she uses more than 3 applications at the same time, her laptop responds more slowly. What should she do to optimize her storage?

Increase the RAM on her laptop so that more space for temporary storage of data is available, hence, increasing the performance

What devices do not need drivers to be manually installed, and start to function as soon as they are connected to a computer?

Plug and play devices

What is the correct way to update a device driver?

Run the update within the OS or the latest software from the device manufacturer's website

Alessandro wants to use his desktop computer to video chat with his mother. What hardware does he need to accomplish this?

Use his webcam and speakers so that he and his mother can both see and hear each other

What device do e-learning applications usually use to help users with visual impairment read digital content?

Voice synthesizer

A binary system

a number system that has just two unique digits, 0 and 1, called bits

Which of these, though not equally portable, is most powerful and usually easier to upgrade than others?

desktop computers

Tablets

less powerful than computers, easy to read the web

Control Unit (CU)

manages the instructions that travel to the processor

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

performs arithmetic operations

bit

smallest unit of data a computer can process

processor cache

stores data next to the processor so that it can easily and quickly be retrieved