PHS CyberSchool
Computer Studies SG
Modified 04 June 2006
Computer architecture - 50 marks
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Please provide the following information:
First name
Surname
Student number
Institution e.g., School name
Tel. (Home)
Email address
Name of this quiz (see above)
The best description of a port:
Module which stores data.
Way for the peripheral to connect to the computer.
Station where buses on the motherboard drop off data.
Drawing utensil in DTP.
Which of the following statements are TRUE with regard to Expansion cards?
Credit cards used for shopping.
TV game cards.
Separate boards containing circuitry to control peripherals.
Cards used to represent pictures on the screen.
Which of the following are ports?
COM, LPT, WAN
MAN, LAN, USB
COM, LPT, USB
BIOS, CMOS, LPT
The LPT port is the port most frequently used to connect the PC to the ...
CPU.
screen.
printer.
mouse.
The hard drive is made up of ...
clusters, tracks and registers.
tracks, RAM and ROM.
platters, read-write heads and a single access arm.
the I/O bus.
The speed of the hard drive is determined by ...
the program counter containing the address of the next instruction.
the speed of the cache memory.
access time of the video card and data transfer rate of the drive.
access time of the hard drive and data transfer rate of the drive.
Which of the following statements is TRUE with regard to computer modules?
Easy to see and hold.
Easy to change and interchange.
Are programs.
Are expensive.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
The COM port is a parallel port.
The LPT port connects the mouse to the CPU.
The LPT is a serial port.
The LPT port connects the PC to a printer.
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
The USB port allows up to 127 devices to be chained into one port.
The keyboard plugs directly onto the motherboard.
The printer plugs into the serial port.
The AGP graphic card plugged into a AGP port is faster than a graphic card plugged into a PCI slot.
Access time ...
is influenced by the new INTEL AGP cards.
converts an address indicating the physical position on the disk.
is how long it takes to locate a single piece of information and make it available to the computer for processing.
affects the computer's capacity to store data.
Circuit board that provides additional capabilities for a computer:
Adapter
Motherboard
Sound card
Video card
Device connected to and controlled by a computer, but external to the computers' central processing unit.
Motherboard
Peripheral device
Video card
Sound card
Large circuit board containing the computer's central processing unit, microprocessor chips, RAM and expansion slots is called the ...
motherboard.
expansion card.
hard disk interface.
adapter.
The speed of the hard drive is determined by ...
the number of registers that a CPU has.
access time of the hard drive and data transfer rate of the drive.
the width of the data bus.
the width of the address bus.
... ? ... access to information on a ... ? ... is obtained because you are able to move 'directly' to the required place. This is in contrast with ... ? ... access which must be used in conjunction with a ... ? ... tape that must turn to the right place. (Compare it with a music CD as opposed to a music cassette.)
Direct, disk, sequential, magnetic
Magnetic, disk, sequential, direct
Disk, sequential, magnetic, direct
Sequential, direct, magnetic, disk
An organised collection of information on a disk like a word-processor document or a program, is referred to as a(n) ...
file.
kilobyte.
record.
address.
"The Pentum microprocessor has a 32-bit architecture. The speed of the computer is influenced by this architecture.'
Which of the following statements has the most bearing on the statement?
The width of a register influences speed.
Defraging a system speeds up a computer.
Large amounts of RAM speeds up a computer.
The RAM of the video card influences speed.
Electronic standard for the connection of a hard disk to a computer:
Double-speed drive
Hard disk interface
SCSI
Access time
Large capacity data storage medium for computers, on which information is stored at extremely high density in the form of tiny pits:
Optical disk
Floppy disk
Stiffy disk
Hard disk drive
Socket that enables a computer processor to communicate with an external device:
Port
Register
Motherboard
Keyboard
A microprocessor is one type of ultra-large-scale integrated ...
circuit.
motherboard.
memory.
cache.
On the motherboard (the) ... is the temporary computer memory area in which data can be stored.
RAM
expansion slot
ROM BIOS
math co-processor
The fastest of the memory types listed: DRAM, EDO RAM, ROM, SRAM
DRAM
ROM
EDO RAM
SRAM
Stored in RAM when the computer is switched off:
Programs
Data
BIOS
Nothing
Part of a system used to store data and programs either permanently or temporarily:
Port
Cache
Registers
Memory
Carry digital information throughout the chip and computer:
Clocks
Registers
Circuits
Buses
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
SRAM is used for cache.
DRAM is used for normal primary memory.
SDRAM is replacing EDO DRAM in most new computers.
DRAM is used for cache memory.
People who want to troubleshoot hardware and software problems study and obtain a(n) ...
A+ certificate.
B.Sc. degree.
C+ certificate.
CNE.
Cache memory ...
is a special high speed memory designed to accelerate processing instructions by the CPU.
carries signals that tell memory if the CPU wants to read or write.
decodes the instruction.
converts signals into digital format.
Unit of measurement, composed of bits and bytes, that can be stored in one memory location name:
Bit
Word
Byte
Kb
The instruction cycle involves:
A. Fetching the next instruction to be executed from memory to the CPU.
B. Control unit decodes the instruction.
C. Data is transferrred.
D. The instruction is executed.
A, B, C, D
B, C, D, A
D, A, B, C
C, B, D, A,
Which type of ROM is being referred to?- The BIOS on this ROM can be upgraded by making used of software (flashing):
PROM
EPROM
ROM
EEPROM
What is being referred to? - An electronic pathway along which signals can be sent from one part of a computer to another.
Cache
Slot
Wire
Bus
Component of the CPU that decodes, synchronises and executes program instructions:
Arithmetic/logic unit
SIMM
Control unit
BIOS
Set of wires running from the CPU to RAM:
City Tramways bus
Data bus
Address bus
System bus
If you had an internal modem, into which part of the motherboard would you slot the card?
SIMM
Expansion slot
Central processing unit
Bus
The fastest type of video cards suitable for the latest version of Quake:
3 D
2 D
AGP
Standard
Most sound cards use the ... connection slots:
ISA
USB
AGP
ASCII
The extension of a sound file:
avi
jpg
wav
midi
CPU processing functions regulator that produces a pulse at regular intervals:
Cache
Bus
Megahertz
System clock
Read-write heads, platters and single access arms are found in ...
ROM.
hard drives.
packets.
cylinders.
What implications does video editing have on secondary storage?
Makes no difference.
Need a great deal of secondary storage space.
Uses space more efficiently and helps reduce the size of secondary storage.
Impossible to store on a home system.
.
Which of the following architecture features did these Internet journalists require?
large amounts of RAM, fast processor and good video card
fast processor, sound card and large screen
good web program
voice activated software
... memory is volatile.
External
Secondary
ROM
RAM
Bus that connects the CPU and memory, providing a pathway to the computer's peripherals:
Data bus
Address bus
System bus
Golden Arrow bus
The computer platform which developed the GUI interface:
IBM
Apple
Acorn
BBC
The smallest unit of information that a computer can handle:
byte
bit
word
Mb
The video card directly influences ...
a virtual community.
the quality of graphics and colour on a screen.
download speed from the Internet.
virtual memory.
... of a computer refers to the unique combination of hardware components that will meet the requirements of a user.
Latency
Configuration
Plug and Play
Interfacing
Bus system that has expansion slots on the motherboard:
Open bus system
Closed bus system
System clock
System 7
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