Computer Hardware Review 7G

True or false, small business computers have better sound and graphics capabilities than home or game computers.

• True

• False

True or false, the terms VGA, SVGA, WUXGA relate to the resolution a monitor supports.

• True

• False

The speed at which a CPU runs instructions is governed by a ticking clock signal. One gigahertz, 1 GHz, means one _________ ticks per second.

• thousand

• million

• billion

• hundred

True or false, serial processing is when a processor begins executing one instruction before it completes the previous instruction.

• True

• False

True or false, in RAM microscopic electronic parts called capacitors hold the bits that represent data.

• True

• False

The CPU stands for _______. The speed is measured in _______________.

RAM stands for ____________________. It is measured in ______________.

• Random Access Memory and Gigabyte

• Random Awesome Memory and Gigahertz

• Round Access Memory and Terabytes

• Random Access Memory and megahertz

Fill in the blank. PCs, Macs, and Linux are three computer ______?

• Hard Drives

• Operating Systems

• Platforms

• CPUs

Fill in the blank. Pentium, Core, Atom, and Athlon are types of _________?

• hard drives

• microprocessors

• operating system

• computers

This is a type of memory that holds the computer's startup routine. Data can be read but not written to it and it retains the data even once the computer has been shut down.

• ROM

• RAM

• EEPROM

• Hard Drive