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