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Hard Times Ahead
Bits and Bytes
The Brains of it All
I Can't Remember That
I Need a Place to Keep It
100
The physical components of a computer ”
What is hardwarel?
100
A numeric system that only uses two digits — 0 and 1
What is binary code?
100
The Brain of the computer, this device controls all operations.
What is the CPU or Central Processing Unit?
100
A form of memory that has permanent instructions stored on it and cannot be changed.
What is Read Only Memory?
100
A storage device oh which a read/write head is used to change the magnetic flux patterns on a set of spinning disks to positive or negative to represent the 1s and 0s of binary code.
What is hard drive?
200
Components connected to the outside of a system unit.
What are peripherals?
200
A grouping of 8 bits.
What is a byte?
200
Random access memory (RAM), Cache memory, Virtual memory, Read-only memory, and Complementary metal oxide semiconductor memory (CMOS).
What is five types of memory?
200
The two types of Random Access Memory (RAM)
What are static and dynamic RAM
200
A solid-state technology with no moving parts that traps electronic signals between two gates to represent the 1s in binary code and releases the electricity to represent 0s.
What is Flash?
300
The main circuit board in the system unit
What is the motherboard?
300
The prefix that equals One Billion.
What is Giga-?
300
The two sections that make up the CPU
What are the Control Unit and the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)?
300
Memory that can be programmed, electronically erased and reprogrammed. This can all be done to specific files and quickly.
What is EEPROM?
300
A storage device that uses a laser beam to burn small holes, known as pits, in to the reflective surface of a spinning disk to represent the 0s of binary code. Flat surfaces, known as lands, are treated as the 1s of binary code.
What is an optical storage device?
400
Mouse, keyboard, microphone, scanner, etc.
What are input devices?
400
The amount of bytes that would be needed to represent the name Mike in binary code.
What is 4 bytes?
400
The part of a CPU core that performs logical operations and integer arithmetic.
What is the ALU?
400
Using High-speed memory to store frequently used commands in order to speed up processing.
What is Cache?
400
A service model in which data is maintained, managed and backed up remotely on high speed servers and made available to users over a network (typically the Internet) and is accessible by any internet enabled device.
What is Cloud Storage?
500
Monitor, Speaker, Printer, Projector, etc.
What are output devices?
500
Zeros represent the electronic status of ______ and ones represent the electronic status of _______ in computer operations.
What is off and on?
500
The four steps in the machine processing cycle that the CPU completes.
What are Fetch, Decode, Execute and Store?
500
The use of Cache memory stored on the CPU.
What is level one cache?
500
The newest and highest capacity form of optical storage this format allows the storage of up to 50GB.
What is Blue-ray?