CIS 1 Computer hardware

Optical drive is read with laser beam within the optical drive's read

/write head

8 bits make

1 byte

Kilobyte(KB) Megabyte(MB) Gigabyte(GB) Terabyte(TB) Petabyte(PB) Exabyte(EB)

1 thousand bytes 1 million bytes 1 billion bytes 1 trillion bytes 1000 terabytes 1 million

Select what's true about the CPU

1. Cpu is located on the motherboard of the computer 2.CPU is integrated into a chip called microprocessor

Steps of the information processing cycle

1.Input 2.Process 3.Output 4.Storage

Brains of the computer

CPU

Dictates how many instruction can be processed each second by the CPU

Clockspeed

The core of the processor is composed of the ALU and the ____ unit

Control unit

First step of machine cycle

Fetch

Port combination that is used for nearly all high definition television or computer connection is

HDMI

SSDs have no moving parts so they cost tend to be ____

Higher than traditional(magnetic) hard drives

Tv remote usually uses

IR(infrared) radio waves

Worlds largest manufacturer of processors

Intel

Two or more cores on a processor

Multicore

Running the processor faster than recommended

Overclocking

Place in a digital device where the data and programs that device is currently using and are accessible by the processor is called the

RAM

A _ core processor has just one core

Single core

Average tablet has a ____ hard drive than laptop

Smaller

A hardware component that keeps data and information when the device is not powered is called a

Storage device

Desktop computers are stationary devices that consist of a separate case called the

System

Images displayed on a laptop is usually created by the

graphics processing unit(gpu)