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1

The main circuit board in the system unit is also called the:
A)Busboard.
B)Daughterboard.
C)Chipboard.
D)Motherboard.
2

The place on your system unit through which information and instructions flow to your computer system referred to as a:
A)Bus.
B)Port.
C)Card.
D)Circuit.
3

The acronym CPU stands for:
A)Common processing unit.
B)Central procedures unit.
C)Central processing unit.
D)Common procedures unit.
4

The component that holds instructions for the CPU is:
A)ROM.
B)RAM.
C)CMOS.
D)ILU.
5

Information used by the CPU is loaded first in:
A)RAM.
B)ROM.
C)REM.
D)RIM.
6

To hear music on a computer, you need a sound card to convert the musical data from this type of format:
A)Analog.
B)Digital.
C)Serial.
D)Algorithm.
7

You can add peripheral devices to your computer by inserting special-purpose circuit boards into these slots:
A)Bay slots.
B)Port slots.
C)Connector slots.
D)Expansion slots.
8

Boards that are used to connecadditional devices to the motherboard are called:
A)Bay cards.
B)Port cards.
C)Expansion cards.
D)Bus cards.
9

Computers use this system to represeninformation of every kind:
A)Analog.
B)Digital.
C)Decimal.
D)Pulses.
10

A bit represents how many different values?
A)Two.
B)Four.
C)Six.
D)Eight.
11

The word "FITNESS" requires this many bytes:
A)Two.
B)Seven.
C)Eight.
D)Ten.
12

Most personal computers use this eight-bit coding system:
A)Unicode.
B)ASCII.
C)EBCDIC.
D)Decode.
13

This coding system uses 16 bits instead of 8, and allows for approximately 65,000 different patterns:
A)Unicode.
B)ASCII.
C)EBCDIC.
D)Decode.
14

The set of electrical pathways thamoves information between the basic components on the motherboard, including between RAM and the CPU:
A)System bus.
B)Control unit bus.
C)Processor bus.
D)Connector bus.
15

A component of the CPU that performs arithmetic, as well as comparison and logic operations, is the:
A)ALU.
B)RAM.
C)CMOS.
D)RISC.
16

This computer component keeps all of the computer's operations synchronized:
A)CPU bus.
B)CPU clock.
C)CPU CMOS
D)CPU battery.
17

For a CPU, the number of millions of CPU cycles per second is quoted as:
A)Gigahertz.
B)Megahertz.
C)Clock-hertz.
D)Bus-hertz.
18

Your operating system will detect and install the appropriate device drivers for this type of device:
A)Plug and play.
B)Plug and go.
C)Plug and continue.
D)Plug and commence.
19

Today's USB ports are USB ___________.
A)1.0
B)1.1
C)2.0
D)2.1
20

This connector has 5 pins that fiinto the holes of this type of port.
A)Serial port.
B)Parallel port.
C)USB port.
D)Firewire port.





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