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Hardware & Software

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Is A Bus

a)

A Vehicle To Get People Places

b)

Electrical Conductions That Carry Electrical Signals Between Components In The CPU And Other Components On The Motherboard.

c)

Performs Arithmetic And Logical Operations To Carry Out Programs Instructions, Such As Addition, Subtraction And Comparison Between Numbers.

d)

A Type Of Register Used To Store The Result Of The Calculations Carried Out By The ALU.

2.
Which of these steps does the CPU cycle end with?
a)
Decode
b)
Execute
c)
Fetch
3.
Which of the following may result in better CPU performance? 
a)
Small Cache
b)
Low Clock Speed
c)
Single Core Processor
d)
Wishful Thinking
4.
Cache memory is...
a)
Faster than main memory but less expensive
b)
Faster than main memory and more expen
c)
Slower than main memory and less expensive
d)
Slower than main memory but more expensive
5.
Clock speed measures what?
a)
Speed at which instructions are fetched from main memory
b)
Time taken to perform a single Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle
c)
Number of Fetch-Decode-Execute cycles that can be completed in 1 sec
d)
Speed at which instructions are decoded 
6.
What is an example of an input device?
a)
Keyboard
b)
Speakers
c)
Monitor
d)
DVD
7.
What is spam?
a)
unsolicited messages sent to you
b)
Send Programs And Machine code
c)
untitled messages
d)
A Virus
8.
Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of what?
a)
Wildlife Charities
b)
Folder
c)
Web Browser
d)
Different colours of the new Vauxhall Vectra
9.
What computer component is displayed?
a)
Expansion Card
b)
CPU
c)
Motherboard
d)
Memory 
10.
What is PSU?
a)
Personal Supplying Unit
b)
None of these
c)
Personal upplication Unify
d)
Power supply unit
11.
Which is not a computer part?
a)
Remote
b)
CPU
c)
Keyboard
d)
Mouse
12.
What are these?
a)
Tower
b)
Motherboard
c)
Harddrive
d)
RAM memory
13.
In terms of computing, what does CPU stand for?
a)
central pc unit
b)
clean processing unit 
c)
computer processing unit
d)
Central processing unit
14.
What is Apple's Operating System for Mac's called?
a)
MS
b)
Unix
c)
OS X
d)
APP
15.
What ROM stand for in IT?
a)
Read Only memory
b)
Record on Movement
c)
Repeat Only Memory
d)
Receive On Main server
16.
What does HTML stand for?
a)
Hyper Text Mark up Lingo
b)
Hyper Text Mark Up Language
c)
Hyper Total Managed Language 
d)
Handy Texting Management Level
17.
What is the digital footprint?
a)
A proof for the existence of a digital yeti
b)
All the traces of your activity on the Internet
c)
A device for leaving footprints of any chosen creature on the ground
d)
A machine for printing out digital money
18.
What are the programs that run on a computer system called? 
a)
Algorithms
b)
Code
c)
Software
d)
Languages
19.
What does GB stand for?
a)
Gigabyte
b)
Giantbyte
c)
Giagabyte
d)
Giggabyte
20.
Processor speed is measured in _______.
a)
Ghz
b)
Bus Speed
c)
Hyperthreads
d)
Cores