CIT - CHAPTER 2

What type of printer produces the sharpest text at a much lower cost per page?

Laser

________ are used to connect a computer to a telephone line for dial-up Internet access.

Modems

________ enables devices to share data with each other by touching them together or bringing them within a few centimeters of each other.

Near field communication

What type of monitor is composed of extremely thin panels of organic molecules sandwiched between two electrodes?

OLED

Data is stored on ________ using a laser to either melt the disc material or change the color of embedded dye.

optical discs

Pointing devices, such as the mouse and ________, work by moving a pointer on the screen.

touchpad

________ are the primary mass storage devices in a computer system.

Hard drives

What is the standard video port found on video cards?

DVI

________ represent audio or video data by a series of 0s and 1s.

Digital devices

What type of printer produces the highest quality photo prints?

Dye-sublimation

Which type of port enables peer-to-peer communication between devices such as video cameras?

FireWire

________ are small, portable, solid-state drives.

Flash drives

Which feature results in sharper images?

Image stabilization

What type of printer is the most common personal printer?

Inkjet

On ________, data is stored by using a laser to melt the material or to change the color of an embedded dye.

Optical discs

Which type of memory is a volatile form of memory that holds the operating systems, programs, and data the computer is currently using?

RAM

________ is a non-mechanical form of storage, which stores data on a chip.

Solid-state storage

What type of printer creates a model from an image by building layers of material such as paper, polymers, resin, or metal?

Three-dimensional

The ________ is the measure of instruction cycles per second.

clock speed

The ________ is part of the processor that manages the movement of data through the CPU.

control unit