Computer Architecture
What are output devices?
Primary memory is divided in two main parts. These are the types.
What are Random Access Memory and Read Only Memory?
The OS Service responsible for making sure that only intended users are entering the system
What is Security?
With a population of 910,000 people, this is the capital city of Mexico State.
What is Toluca?
This casts a value to an int, truncating the decimal if necessary
What is `(int)value`?
A small circuit made from a few transistors that performs one simple logical function
What is a logic gate?
This type of code is the only type that a computer can understand, and the one that data and instructions are stored in in RAM
What is binary code, or machine language?
Completely digital, opposed to its magnetic counterpart, this is the fastest device for secondary memory
This country, with the help of future 2023 Ballon d'Or winner as their talisman, won the Men's Football World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
What is Argentina?
The result of running the following code in Java:
2 + 4 % 3 * 2
What is 4?
The brain of the computer, this is also known as the processor, or the chip
What is the CPU?
This specific quality of ROM means that when it loses power, it does not lose its data
What is "non-volatile" or "persistent"?
The OS service responsible for connecting to other devices over things like WiFi or Bluetooth
What is Networking?
These two are the only colors available in the Sweden flag
What are blue and yellow?
The first line of a method that gives information about return type and parameters
What is "method signature"?
The CPU part responsible for most calculations
What is the Arithmetic Logic Unit?
What is cache?
The service in an OS that allows for control of external devices and hardware
What is peripheral communication?
These 4 people created BeatleMania and spurred a musical movement spanning a whole decade.
The blueprint from which an object is made
What is a class?
The part of the CPU that stores memory addresses before reading and writing data
What is the Memory Address Register (MAR)
This is the software used to boot up a computer
What is the BIOS?
The file that a computer uses to keep track of every single action in a computer
What is the log file?
The motto of the French Revolution (and the following Age of Enlightment)
What is "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"?
A data structure that internally works like an array but can be treated dynamically
What is an Arraylist?