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Running the Disk Cleanup utility is a quick way to ________.

A) defrag your hard drive
B) remove spyware programs
C) clear out unnecessary files
D) uninstall unwanted apps

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To securely erase data, the U.S. Department of Defense suggests that data be ________.

A) overwritten seven times
B) deleted
C) encoded
D) refactored

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RAM prices tend to be very stable.

The processor market for desktop and laptop computers is dominated by ________.

Accessing data from the hard drive to send to the CPU is faster than accessing data from RAM.

The ________ of a CPU dictates how many instructions the CPU can process each second.

When using multiple monitors, you must have multiple video cards.

The process the CPU performs for each program instruction is called the ________.

________ drives run with no noise and very little heat, and require very little power.

Running the CPU at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends is called ________.

The CPU's ________ memory is a form of RAM that gets data to the CPU for processing much faster than bringing the data in from the computer's RAM.

The use of multiple cores on one CPU chip allows the execution of two or more sets of instructions at the same time.

Match each of the following terms to its meaning:

________ sound is a type of audio system where the listener hears the sound as if it were coming from multiple speakers.

A stoppage of a mechanical hard drive that often results in data loss is called a(n) ________.

3D sound is different from surround-sound.

________ is the type of RAM memory used most often in today's lower-end computers.

________ automatically duplicates your data and saves it on two identical drives.

Which statement pertaining to system reliability is FALSE?

Windows uses a memory-management technique known as ________ to monitor which applications you use most frequently an d then preloads them into your system memory.