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| Which of the following is the largest unit of data? |
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| A port provides an interface between: |
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| an expansion board and a peripheral device |
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| which of the following involves the use of multiple processors with many single computers? |
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| the following are all advantages of Unicode over ASCII except: |
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| Expansion slots connect interface cards to? |
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| Which of the following storage areas are kept within the CPU? |
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| Which of the following is a volatile form of memory |
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| How many separate on/off switches would be required in order to repeat all the possible characters of the ASCII character code? |
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| Which is the correct correspondence of the cycle time and cycle speed? |
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| How many separate on/off switches would be required in order to represent all the possible characters of the Unicode character code |
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| The ability for one instruction to execute while the next is being fetched is made possible via: |
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| Which of the following technologies pertain to the size of a CPU's instruction set? |
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| The unicode representation of the word HELLO takes: |
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cache
teraflop
fetch
terabyte
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fast memory
measure of speed
load to register
storage capacity
coding scheme |
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| The material that diskettes are made of is |
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| A coating of magnetic........enables disks to represent data in magnetic form |
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| When the read/write head touches the surface of a disk: |
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| data is destroyed on the disk |
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| the read write head is located: |
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| on the end of the access arm |
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| collection of rigid platters and access arms |
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| for hard disk drives there will be one access arm for: |
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| each pair of read/write heads |
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| which sentience best describes the actions of the access arms and read/write heads on a standard disk drive? |
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| access arms move together as a unit, and one read/write head reads at a time |
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| Data striping is a technology that: |
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| improves speed by allowing simultaneous read/writes |
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| The RAID technology that contributes to fault tolerance is called: |
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| Which RAID technology addresses the problem that could occur if a head crash takes place on one of the disk platters |
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| the term that refers to a circular portion of the disk is: |
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| a collection of adjacent sectors that are treated as a unit of storage by the operating system is: |
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| the smallest addressable unit of storage on a disk is called a |
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