Computer System-Hardware

Which piece of hardware is responsible for holding up all pieces together inside the CASE?

• Power Supply

• RAM

• Motherboard

• Hard Disk Drive

Which piece of hardware is responsible for carrying out all the processing, calculations and comparisons performed on data?

• Hard Disk Drive

• CPU

• GPU

• RAM

Which of the following is known as the 'BRAIN' of a computer?

• GPU

• Memory

• CPU

• HDD

Which of the following statements are true about RAM?

• It comes in smaller sizes compared to Hard Disk Drive.

• It gives CPU quick access to the data that CPU needs for processing.

• It keeps and stored all data.

• It can keep data only temporarily.

Why is it that Hard Disk Drive cannot give CPU data?

• They cannot understand each other.

• Hard Disk drives work much more slowly than CPU and it wastes a lot of time of the CPU waiting for the data to arrive.

• Hard disk Drive has other roles that keeps it very busy.

• Hard Disk Drive is not in the computer.

Which of the two pieces of hardware play a crucial role in the quality of online video games you'd play on your computer?

• Hard Disk Drive

• The screen (monitor)

• RAM

• GPU

Which of the following statements are correct about RAM in a computer system?

• It acts as the active working space for the CPU.

• It can store data permanently.

• It hold data that the CPU is currently working on.

• It provides data to CPU much faster than the HDD.

• It is a lot bigger in capacity compared to Hard Disk.

What is a motherboard? Tick the most complete answer.

• It is a circuit board inside the computer.

• It is a circuit board that holds others piece on it.

• It is the biggest circuit board in a computer that holds every piece on it and makes sure they can communicate together.

• It is the biggest circuit board in the computer that works with CPU.

Everything that happens on a computer goes through the CPU at one point.

• True.

• False.

Hard Disk Drive is a lot quicker than RAM when it comes to sending data to CPU.

• True.

• False.