Computer Basics Quiz

1 Bit

0,1

Unicode

4 bits. 1,114,112 combinations

8 Bit

8 number characters equal to a byte

Transistors

A device that's can enable or disable the flow of electricity

Motherboard

All parts are connected to what?

Herz

Another word for "per second"

ASCII

Chart for representing English characters as binary characters (american standard code information interchange)

Gordon Moore

Cofounder of Intel

Kilobyte

Equal to 1,000 byte

Terabyte

Equal to 1000 gigabyte and 1 trillion bytes

Megabyte

Equal to 1000 kilobytes and 1 million bytes

Gigabyte

Equal to 1000 megabytes and 1 billion bytes

Persistent storage

Information is there even when you turn off computer

The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will double 18 months

Moores law

Gigahertz

Processors are measured in ....

Electrical

RAMs storage is....

Central processing unit

What does CPU stand for

Physical storage of data

What does HDD do?

Hard Disk Drive

What does HDD stand for?

File loads onto it

What does RAM do?

Random Access Memory

What does RAM stand for?

Interprets and Executes Instructions

What does a CPU do?

01

What two numbers are always in binary?