Operating System Test

1. What does RAM stand for?

Read at Measure

Random Access Memory

Really Awesome Memory

2. On your Ipods how is storage measured

Gigabytes

Terabytes

3. What is the main difference between RAM and ROM?

RAM is short term memory while ROM is longer term

RAM requires more inputs than ROM

4. Which of the following businesses might use a mainframe computer?

Bank

Gas Station

5. Who made the first microprossecor? Why?

Microsoft in order to compete with Apple's new personal computer

Intel while researching a way to make a better calculator

Apple while trying to develop an integrated circuit to use in communications devices

6. Which of the following is not an example software?

Mouse

Word

Internet Explorer

7. What is Silicon?

A gel

A semiconductor

A metal

8. Which of the following is not an example of an output?

Monitor

Modem

Keyboard

9. The Intel 4004 in 1971 had only 2,200 transistors while today's microprocessors have over 10 million. This increase is proof of Moore's Law.

True

False

On B days

10. What are microprocessors made of?

Copper

Gold

Silicon

11. Instructions can come to a microprocessor in different "word lengths". What is each part called and in what chunks can they come?

Letters, 2-4-6-8-10

Bits, 4-8-16-32-64

Bits, 2-4-16-32-48

12. Which of the following is not an example of hardware?

Windows Vista

Monitor

Microprocessor

13. What does ALU stand for and what does it do?

Arithmetic Language Unit-does complex calculations

Aritmetic Logic Unit-does simple whole number calculations

Anterior Language Unit-decodes instructions

14. Which of the following is not an input device?

Modem

Mouse

Keyboard

Printer

15. Microprocessors are an integrated circuit. What is another name for integrated circuits?

Chips

Intels

Micro-controllers

16. Is a microprocessor useful by itself?

No

Yes

Every other Monday

17. What is a microprocessor system?

A microprocessor and other components which can carry out and process instructions and data

A computer on a single chip

A variation of a system bus

18. What two types of information can go into a microprocessor?

Data, instructions

Instructions, memory

Numbers, letters

19. What is the brain of a microprocessor?

Control Unit

FPU

ALU

20. What do we call an integrated circuit with all the components of microprocessor system included on a single chip?

Micro-controller

Intel 4004

Cache memory

21. What does FPU stand for and what does it do?

Floating Pivot Unit-simple whole number calculations

First Point Unit-interacts with rest of system bus

Floating Point Unit-complex calculations usually involving scientific notation

22. Microprocessors can calculate as fast as 1 nanosecond, however, when information is need from outside the microprocessors memory is much slower working at 100 nanoseconds--this slows down the microprocessors speed since it has to wait for information. This is called what?

Main Memory Bottleneck

Microprocessor System

Moore's Law

23. What was the first major operating system?

Windows

Disk Operating System DOS

Apple

24. Modern microprocessors usually have how many ALUs?

2

1

3

25. Which of the following is not one of the essential hardware components we studied?

Memory

Storage

Processor

Inputs

Outputs

Software

26. What part of a microprocessor communicates with the rest of the system bus?

Bus Interface

Register

RAM

27. What is the measure of a microprocessors speed? How is it measured?

RAM, bits

Clock frequency, bits

Clock frequency, gigahertz

28. Which of the following is not a component of integrated circuits?

Capacitor

Transistor

Wiring

Resistor

Diode

Register

29. What type of computers is used to house email networks?

Supercomputers

Desktops

Servers

30. What is considered to be the brain or engine of a computing system where instuctions are carried out and data is processed?

Bus Interface

Control Unit

Microprocessor

31. What do we call the journey inputs take to become outputs?

System bus

Processing

32. The small amount of memory actually located in the FPU or ALU is called what?

Register

RAM

Cache

33. Which of the following would not increase the performance of a microprocessor?

Better design of the layout of the actual chip

Putting more frequently used information in the cache memories

Increasing the clock frequency or adding ALUs

Increasing word length read

None of the above

34. Cache memory is memory located on the actual microprocessor so it does not have to go outside of itself to get information to process because it takes a lot longer. What are the two types of cache memory on most microprocessors?

RAM, ROM

Data, instruction

FPU, ALU

Operating System Test

1. What does RAM stand for?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. On your Ipods how is storage measured

3. What is the main difference between RAM and ROM?

4. Which of the following businesses might use a mainframe computer?

5. Who made the first microprossecor? Why?

6. Which of the following is not an example software?

7. What is Silicon?

8. Which of the following is not an example of an output?

9. The Intel 4004 in 1971 had only 2,200 transistors while today's microprocessors have over 10 million. This increase is proof of Moore's Law.

10. What are microprocessors made of?

11. Instructions can come to a microprocessor in different "word lengths". What is each part called and in what chunks can they come?

12. Which of the following is not an example of hardware?

13. What does ALU stand for and what does it do?

14. Which of the following is not an input device?

15. Microprocessors are an integrated circuit. What is another name for integrated circuits?

16. Is a microprocessor useful by itself?

17. What is a microprocessor system?

18. What two types of information can go into a microprocessor?

19. What is the brain of a microprocessor?

20. What do we call an integrated circuit with all the components of microprocessor system included on a single chip?

21. What does FPU stand for and what does it do?

22. Microprocessors can calculate as fast as 1 nanosecond, however, when information is need from outside the microprocessors memory is much slower working at 100 nanoseconds--this slows down the microprocessors speed since it has to wait for information. This is called what?

23. What was the first major operating system?

24. Modern microprocessors usually have how many ALUs?

25. Which of the following is not one of the essential hardware components we studied?

26. What part of a microprocessor communicates with the rest of the system bus?

27. What is the measure of a microprocessors speed? How is it measured?

28. Which of the following is not a component of integrated circuits?

29. What type of computers is used to house email networks?

30. What is considered to be the brain or engine of a computing system where instuctions are carried out and data is processed?

31. What do we call the journey inputs take to become outputs?

32. The small amount of memory actually located in the FPU or ALU is called what?

33. Which of the following would not increase the performance of a microprocessor?

34. Cache memory is memory located on the actual microprocessor so it does not have to go outside of itself to get information to process because it takes a lot longer. What are the two types of cache memory on most microprocessors?