Hardware

Which category does the following action fall under?: The computer works on the data - e.g. calculating, sorting, searching. etc.

• input

• processing

• communications

• storage

What is this?

• CPU

• RAM

• ROM

• Speakers

• Input

• Output

• Processing

• Storage

• Input

• Output

• Processing

• Storage

The three steps in the information processing cycle are...

• input, processing, output

• data capturing, information gathering, summarising

• communication, data capturing, output

• output storage, data capturing

What is shown in the picture?

• A ROM memory

• A RAM memory

• A hard drive

• An optical memory

Which type of memory is non-volatile firmware to initialize startup?

• Primary memory

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• Read Only Memory (ROM)

• Secondary Storage

What is the largest chip on the motherboard that interprets and executes the instructions stored in RAM?

• Arithmetic Logic Unit (AL)

• Control Unit (CU)

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Motherboard

_____ is used to plug peripherals into the system unit.

• A USB Port

• An audio card

• A flash drive

• A video card

_____ is used when computer programs are turned on. It is cleared once the machine is shut off.

• The optical disk

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• The network interface

• Read Only Memory (ROM)