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Chapter 6: Evaluating Your System: Understanding and Assessing Hardware

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1. The control unit is responsible for:  

2. A term referring to the number of machine cycles per second a CPU can perform is:  

3. The percentage of time that the CPU is actually working is called:  

4. A daughterboard is a(n):  

5. Storage devices that lose data when power is shut off to the system are called:  

6. The term nanoseconds is best applied to describe:  

7. Kernel RAM is:  

8. In Windows, the size of the page file used in virtual memory is found in the:  

9. A concentric circle on a disk is called a:  

10. Seek time refers to:  

11. Which of the following is a type of hard disk drive?  

12. The following are all magnetic storage media EXCEPT:  

13. When measuring the speed of a CD drive, such as 40x12x48, the “x” indicates that the preceding number should be multiplied by ____________ KB per second.  

14. The video card is:  

15. A bit depth of 8 will support ____________ colors.  

16. A Dolby sound card supports surround-sound.  
 
17. USB 1.1 is faster than FireWire.  
 
18. Bluetooth is a wireless port utilizing infrared technology.  
 
19. Using USB ports, it is possible to link a sequence of peripheral devices, one plugged into another, so that all of them can be plugged into a single USB port on the computer.  
 
20. System performance is affected by the degree of fragmentation in hard disk file placement.  
 
21.

Match the following terms with their proper descriptions.  

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. musical device port
B. proposed that computing power doubles every 18 months
C. plug into a USB port and provide 4 to 8 more ports
D. caused by dust or jarring motion of disk arm
E. arithmetic and logical processor
F. port for networking
 

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