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Tower
The tower is mistakenly called two different
names. What are they?
What are at least 4 different hardware
components that are inside the tower?
1. CPU
2. Hard drive
Answer will vary but can include: CPU,
Motherboard, RAM, ROM, Power Supply,
Video card, Sound card, Networking card, Hard
drive,
CPU
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
The CPU is like the
of the
Brain
computer.
Quiz Questions
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Central Processing Unit
1. What does CPU stand for?
1971
2. When was the first commercial microprocessor introduced?
Silicon
3. Out of what material are computer chips made?
4. The width of the smallest wire on a computer chip is typically Microns
measured in:
Starting up the computer
5. Which of the following is not part of a computer chip's job?
ROM and RAM
6. To what do buses and lines connect in a computer chip?
Read Only Memory
7. What does ROM stand for?
Both of the Above (Load the OS
8. On a PC, what do the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
and Test hardware)
instructions do?
The assembler
9. Computer chip designers create language instructions that
the microprocessor reads. What part of the computer can
translate the words from the instructions into bit patterns the
chip can understand?
1 billion GB
10. About how much address space can a 64-bit
microprocessor access?
It was one of the first 16-bit
11. The Intel 8086 processor, introduced in 1978, included
processors
what important advance?
731 million
12. How many transistors are included in the Intel Core i7
processor, introduced in 2008?
Motherboard
13. The CPU is included on a central component of the
computer known as:
The at which it can execute
14. What is a CPU’s clock speed?
instructions
Cache memory
15. The memory that a CPU can use directly is called:
The fineness of the manufacturing
16. The process size of a CPU refers to what?
technique
Run at a faster speed than normal
17. A turbo boost allows a CPU to:
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18. Every CPU needs to:
19. Which type of CPU was used in the first IBM personal
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Dissipate heat
16-bit
computer?
20. The first commercial processor was used in:
A programmable business
calculator
21. Which of these is an important manufacturer of CPU chips? AMD
Motherboard
This is the piece of hardware that allows all of
the parts of the computer to…
It hold many of the
electronic
components of the system.
Communicate with each other
Crucial
Power Supply
The power supply takes main power and
converts it into?
What does the video suggest you do with the
WIFI button/switch when traveling?
When you turn down the brightness of your
screen, it can make the battery last how much
longer?
Low voltage power
Turn it off
About 50% longer
RAM
Quiz Questions
1. What does RAM stand for?
2. The most common form of RAM is:
3. How often does a memory controller
automatically refresh memory in dynamic RAM?
4. On what substance are memory cells etched?
5. What sets static RAM apart from dynamic RAM?
6. Memory chips are normally available as part of
what type of card?
7. Which of the following is not a type of RAM?
8. RAM is usually sold in multiples of how many
megabytes?
9. The first types of boards and connectors used for
RAM were called what?
10. What does the method known as parity do?
11. In addition to the CPU, what computer
component can have significant RAM?
12. Cache memory is:
13. A single transaction between the system
memory and the CPU is known as:
14. The access time that it takes for the CPU to
draw on memory can range from:
15. Which of these activities is not memory
intensive?
Answers
Random Access Memory
Dynamic RAM
Thousands of times per second
Silicon
Static RAM is faster than Dynamic RAM
Module
Flash
16
Proprietary
Checks for errors
The graphics card
Closer to the CPU and system memory
A bus cycle
9 to 70 nanoseconds
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16. When you change a memory card on your computer, you
should:
17. 1 gigabyte of RAM is equal to how many kilobytes?
18. What invention did IBM’s Robert Dennard patent in 1968?
19. Core memory, which relied on magnetism, was used in all
computers until 1976. What material did it utilize?
20. How much RAM came with the Altair, one of the first
personal computers?
21. What does DIMM stand for?
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1,048,576
Dynamic RAM
Ceramic
256 bytes
Dual in-line memory module
ROM
What does ROM stand for?
What instructions are stored here?
Read Only Memory
Start-up
Video, Sound, and Networking Cards
Video cards are also known as?
The first know video card was used in what year?
The first sound a computer could make was a?
Networking card is also called NIC. What does
NIC stand for?
Graphics card
1982
Beep
Network Interface Card
Hard drive
The air under the head of a hard drive can move
how fast? (from the video)
How fast does the average hard disk spin?
Up to 80 miles/hour
7,200 RPM