CMPE Quiz 2

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A hexadecimal digit is a number in base ______

16

The number 5 in hexadecimal is ______ in decimal.

5

What does ALU stand for?

Arithmetic Logic Unit

Adding two inputs is a(n)

Arithmetic operation

The acronym CPU stands for

Central Processing Unit

Which of the following storage units are solid state (no physical moving parts)? -Hard Disk Drive (HDD) -Cassettes -CD-ROM -Flash memory

Flash Memory

Determining whether one value is equal, greater, or smaller than another value is a(n)

Logical operation

Which of the following are examples of ASCII characters? "$" "!" "@" all of the above

all of the above

If a piece of software designed to run on Windows XP can run on the latest version of Windows, we say the latest version of Windows is ____________.

backward compatible

Binary is an example of what kind of numeral system?

base-2

In a desktop computer, hard drives or optical drives are typically held inside the computer using ______

bays

A _______ number is represented by a string of 0's and 1's (e.g. 1010).

binary

What is typically the smallest addressable unit of memory on a computer system?

byte

The CPU is also sometimes referred to as the

microprocessor

When a CPU has more than a single processor, it is called a __________.

multi-core processor

________ is when several processes on a computer system are distributed across different processors and executed simultaneously, generally to speed up processing.

parallel processing

________ is when several processes on a computer system are executed one after the other on a single processor.

serial processing

When you are working on an unsaved document on a PC, where is the document temporarily saved?

the RAM


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