CIS 141 Study Guide

True or false: A display device is the most common form of output device.

True

The objective of disk mirroring is to increase

fault tolerance

pipelining

new instruction begins executing as soon as the previous one reaches the next stage of the pipeline.

True or false: SSDs are not subject to mechanical failures like magnetic hard drives, and are more resistant to shock and vibration.

true

true or false: Early computers required programs to be written in machine language.

true

true or false: TOLED displays are transparent.

true

true or false: The graphics tablet is typically connected to a computer via a USB port.

true

true or false: The number of bits being transmitted at one time is dependent on the bus width.

true

Graphene

A graphics tablet is also called a digitizing tablet.

memory modules

Chips for servers and personal computers are typically arranged onto circuit boards

system unit

The main case of a computer or mobile device

Unicode 8.0

Unicode is updated regularly to add new characters and new languages not originally encoded—the most recent version is ___________________

network storage

Using a remote storage device via a local network is referred to as

ports

____________________ are the connectors located on the exterior of a system unit that are used to connect external hardware devices.

touch pad

a touch-sensitive pad across which a fingertip or thumb slides to move the on-screen pointer

Barcodes are read with ____________________.

barcode readers

memory controller

controls the communication between the CPU cores and RAM.

solid-state hybrid drives

drives contain both flash memory chips and magnetic hard drives

true or false: "Tracking up data" refers to creating a second copy of important files.

false

true or false: Cache memory today is usually external cache.

false

true or false: Display device size is measured diagonally from corner to corner as opposed to the way TV screens are measured.

false

true or false: Today's CPUs contain hundreds of millions of transistors, and the number doubles approximately every 18 months, a phenomenon known as Moliere's Law.

false

power supply

inside a computer delivers electricity to the computer via a power cord.

cache memory

is a special group of very fast memory circuitry usually built into the CPU.

How do digital cameras work?

record them on a digital storage medium, such as a flash memory card, embedded flash memory, or a built-in hard drive.

Graphic data

still images, including photographs, mathematical charts, and drawings

A graphics tablet is also called a digitizing tablet.

true