INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
This involves having a current knowledge and understanding of computers and their uses.
What is: computer literacy or digital literacy.
USB flash drives, Hard disks, optical discs, memory cards are all examples of.
What is: storage
The "Brains" of the computer
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)
AMD and Intel are the main manufacturers.
What is CPU (microprocessors)
An OS is the first program loaded into ROM.
What is FALSE. OS is loaded AFTER and is loaded into RAM.
The core of the OS is ___________.
What is the Kernel
This is any device that can accept input, process data, allows for storage and produces output.
What is a computer!!!
Speed, reliability, consistency, storage, and communications are all benefits of this.
What is the advantages of using computers.
Software with source code that’s accessible and potentially even documented for modification.
What is Open Source
This term refers to how many individual processors are located on the CPU chip itself.
What is: CORE(s)
The BIOS can communicate with all devices of the computer, but cannot communicate with the operating system.
What is FALSE.
I am the first program loaded into RAM.
What is the Operating System
Two main components on the motherboard
What is: the processor and memory.
Provides much greater storage capacity than a USB flash drive. The average can hold more than 320 billion characters, and usually enclosed in an airtight, sealed case. Although some are portable, most are housed inside a system unit .
What is a hard disk
PRONOUNCED “GOO-EEE” and allows for interaction between the user and the computer.
What is Graphical User Interface
Slowest and largest cache memory, shared across all cores in the CPU.
What is L3 cache memory
Clock speed is measured in gigahertz and describes how many calculations per second are carried out by a given processor.
What is True
One of the ways in which an OS provides an interface. The CLI is an acronym for ________.
What is: Command Line Interface
Non-volatile usually found on a circuit chip - stores information permanently. Legacy chips could not be written to, however newer chips can be updated.
What is ROM
A communications device is a hardware component that enables a computer to send (transmit) and receive data, instructions, and information to and from one or more computers or mobile devices. A widely used communications device.
What is a modem
What are the 2 main types of Software?
What is: System software and Application Software
A technology first developed with single-core processors, now applied to multiple-cores. Each core is divided into two virtual, or logical cores is known as;
What is Hyper-threading.
The BIOS is the first program loaded into ROM.
What is TRUE. The Bios sits on a ROM chip.
What are 2 of the easiest components to upgrade in your computer verses the CPU.
What is: RAM and Storage (Hard disk drive)
Consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions.
Most keep data and instructions temporarily, which means its contents are erased when the computer is shut off.
What is memory.
Computer addiction occurs when someone becomes obsessed with using a computer. Individuals suffering from technology overload feel distressed when deprived of computers and mobile devices.
What is: disadvantages of using computers
What does DOS stand for?
What is Disk Operating System
The most basic measure of computer performance is the speed of the microprocessor. Measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), and now gigahertz (GHz), the clock speed determines the rate at which instructions are processed.
1 billion clock ticks per second is shown as ______ _____
What is 1 GHz
This is the 2nd stage in the Boot Process.
The system looks for an active device in the boot device list, starting at the top. When it finds an available device, it loads the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) from the device. The BIOS provides information on basic communications with peripheral devices, and communications on the motherboard itself.
What is False. The BIOS loading is the 3rd stage in the Boot process.
5 Tips for Comparing CPUs.
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