Technology Quiz

Which of the following is not a technology company but used technology to revamp the business process of selling shoes?

• Netflix

• Dell

• Zappos

• Amazon

What is software?

• Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.

• The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

• Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

• An electronic device operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory that can accept, manipulate, and store data.

What is hardware?

• Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization.

• The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks.

• Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.

• An electronic device operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory that can accept, manipulate, and store data.

What is a CPU?

• The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together.

• The computer's main memory, which consists of the random access memory (RAM), cache memory, and the read-only memory (ROM) that is directly accessible to the central processing unit (CPU).

• Equipment designed to store large volumes of data for long-term storage.

• Equipment used to capture information and commands.

What is the arithmetic logic unit?

• The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together.

• Performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers).

• A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly.

• Interprets software instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions.

What is a complex instruction set computer chip?

• The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together.

• Interprets software instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions.

• Performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers).

• A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly.

Which of the following represents megahertz?

• The number of millions of CPU cycles per second.

• The number of billions of CPU cycles per second.

• A type of CPU that can recognize as many as 100 or more instructions, enough to carry out most computations directly.

• The number of instructions the CPU can execute to increase processing speed.

What is the number of bits (0s and 1s) that can be processed by the CPU at any one time?

• Clock speed.

• Word length.

• Bus width.

• Chip line width.

What is the size of the internal electrical pathway along which signals are sent from one part of the computer to another?

• Clock speed.

• Bus width.

• Word length.

• Chip line width.

What is roughly 1 million bytes?

• Megabyte.

• Terabyte.

• Kilobyte.

• Gigabyte.