CHAPTER 2

These specialty chips are designed to improve specific computing operations such as displaying 3D images and encrypting data

• smartcards
• NIC cards
• CPUs
• coprocessors

________ ports are a special type of port for connecting musical instruments to a sound card

• eSATA
• MiniDP
• S/PDIF
• MIDI

Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM?

• DDR
• cache memory
• DRAM
• flash memory

Desktop computers have a ________ unit, located within the system unit, that plugs into a standard wall outlet, converts AC to DC, and provides the power to drive all the system unit components

• battery
• power supply
• bus
• miniDC

________ ports provide high-speed connections for external disk drives, optical disks, and other large secondary storage devices

• MiniDP
• Ethernet
• eSATA
• MIDI

With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk

• virtual
• extended
• cache
• flash

Network interface cards (NIC) are connected through ________ on the system board

• ports
• expansion slots
• sound cards
• wireless network cards

When you reboot your system, the computer follows start-up instructions stored in this type of memory

• cache
• flash
• SDRAM
• DRAM

A byte is formed by a group of ________

• 8 bits
• 4 bits
• 12 bits
• 16 bits

________ ports are the standard high-speed networking ports for many of today's computers

• Ethernet
• Bus
• Specialized
• ASCII