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All of the following are commonly used units of measurement to describe memory capacity, except:

A) Megabyte (MB)
B) Gigabyte (GB)
C) Terabyte (TB)
D) Nanobyte (NB)

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Frequently-accessed information is held in:

A) hard drive
B) cache memory
C) flash memory
D) read only memory

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The system board is also known as the:

Network interface cards (NIC) are connected through _____ slots on the motherboard.

HDMI ports make it possible to use a computer as a video jukebox or an HD video recorder.

_____ ports provide high-speed connections for external disk drives, optical disks, and other large secondary storage devices.

Describe specialty ports including eSATA, HDMI, MIDI, MiniDP, and S/PDIF.

Which of the following allows a computer to run two or more operations simultaneously?

_____ operations consist of making comparisons.

Most microcomputers allow users to expand their systems by providing these on the system board.

_____ memory uses the hard drive to substitute for RAM.

MiniDP ports are audio-visual ports typically used to connect large monitors.

_____ ports are used to integrate computers into high-end audio home theatre systems.

Which of the following can be used to connect several devices to the system unit and are widely used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices?

USB ports are used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices.

The processing speed of a microprocessor is typically represented by its:

This term is used to describe the number of bits that a CPU can access at one time.

With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk.

_____ ports are the standard high-speed networking port for many of today's computers.

Which of the following is a function of the control unit?