IT Essentials: CPUs, ROM, RAM, Cooling

____________ is a memory chip that is used as cache memory. 

• DRAM
• SRAM (Static RAM)
• EEPROM
• DDR4

CPU stands for ____________

• Central Personal Unit
• Computer Power Unit
• Central Processing Unit 
• Control Power Unit

The CPU is often compared to this part of human anatomy

• hand
• eyes
• brain
• nose

A fan is an example of __________ cooling. 

• passive
• super
• liquid
• active

A heat sink draws heat away from the CPU. It is an example of ________ cooling. 

• active
• liquid
• super
• passive

One measure of CPU performance is the number of cycles or instructions it can perform in a second - two examples of this measurement are _____________

• gigabytes, megabytes
• hyperthreading
• gigahertz, megahertz
• multicore

_____________ is a technique used to make a processor work at a faster speed than its original specification.

• overclocking
• throttling
• super clock
• multicore

What are the two major manufacturers of processors? 

• Microsoft and Apple
• Intel and AMD
• Bungie and Ubisoft
• Blizzard and Activision

This feature, when supported and enabled in the operating system, is able to protect areas of memory that contain operating system files from malicious attacks by malware.

• BIOS
• UEFI
• NX bit
• malcode

Laptops use _________ memory modules.

• SoDIMM
• DIMM
• DIP
• SIMM