Lesson 1 review

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Tablet PC

A personal computer you can use to take notes with a stylus or digital pen on a touch screen.

1 of 2 primary sections of the CPU

Arithmetic/Logic unit

Tracks

When data is stored on a disk, it is stored in circles called

Rom chips

are found throughout a computer system

Computer System

consists of hardware, software, data and users.

2 of 2 primary sections of the CPU

control unit

The control unit

coordinates all of the processor's activities.

A computer system includes

hardware, software,data

The instruction cycle and the execution cycle create a(n)

machine cycle

Random access memory (RAM) is

nonvolatile

Optical storage devices use laser beams to

read and write data.

You can think of RAM as

short-term memory

A computer manufacturer uses a(n) ROM chip to store specific instructions that are needed for computer operations.

store specific instructions that are needed for computer operations.

The faster the machine cycle

the faster your computer processes data

A supercomputer

the fastest type of computer.

The main advantage of solid-state storage media

they process data electronically and contain no mechanical parts


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