The decade in time computers went from being people who performed calculations to a programmable electronic device that stored, retrieved, and processed Data?
What is 1940s?
100
With software, information is _______, which means it is represented in the terms of digits.
What is digitized?
100
These machines can deterministically perform or execute instructions to process information, but they don't have imaginative, intuition, sense of irony, subtlety, proportion, humor, or free will.
What are computers?
100
Gain access, launch applications, shutdown, manage disks and files are all functions of a Computer device's ______.
What is a user interface?
100
Better known as "the box".
What is the System Unit?
200
This generation of computer development involved computers that were very difficult to program, used vacuum, and used only machine language.
What is the First Generation?
200
The basic binary unit.
What is a "bit" (binary digit)?
200
A computers five basic parts or subsystems.
What is the ALU (Arithmetic/Logic Unit), Control, Memory, Input, and Output?
200
Managing two programs that are running at the same time.
What is multitasking?
200
The components inside "the box."
What is the power supply, floppy disk drive, motherboard, Hard disk drive?
300
This generation of computer development involved personal computers, internet, graphical user interface, LANs, VSLI, and the Microprocessor.
What is the Fourth Generation?
300
Can a 1-byte memory location store a 3-digit number, such as 240? yes or no?
Yes!
300
1. Instruction Fetch (IF)
2. Instruction Decode (ID)
3. Data Fetch (DF)/ Operand Fetch (OF)
4. Instruction Execution (EX)
5. Result Return (RR)/ (ST)
Completing these 5 steps perform what cycle?
What is the Fetch/Execute Cylcle?
300
Virtual Memory uses these units of fixed size, that program's instructions and data are divided into.
What are pages?
300
Circuits that carry data from one component to another.
What are "buses"?
400
To observe that throughout the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a highly concentrated integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
400
When digitizing sound, a person must record with _______ the amount by which the sound wave is above or below the zero line on the graph (representing positive or negative sound pressure).
What is binary?
400
The part of a computer that stores the program running and the data on which the program operates.
What is Memory?
400
When a single program is doing more than one thing.
What is Multithreading?
400
Factors that affect hard disk performance.
What is positioning performance, seek time, transfer performance, spindle speeds, and latency?
500
What microprocessor was used by IBM to make their first personal computers, but still lacked binary capability?
What is the Intel 8080?
500
When digitizing a video the quality depends on the number of _______ in each image, and the number of ________ per second.
What are pixels and frames?
500
The three most widely used operating systems.
What are Apple's Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix?
500
The duties of an operating system.
What is managing programs, managing memory, dealing with I/O devices, and Interacting with user?