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MBA 5670 Management of Information technologiesIT Infrastructure: Hardware Review QuestionsQ.1. Which of the following can be used for both input and output? (Circle all correct answers)A) KeyboardB) Hard Disk driveC) Touch screenD) ScannerQ.2. Which of the following is not part of the Processing subsystem as seen in class?A) RAMB) ROMC) ALUD) NoneQ.3. The speed of a computer’s CPU may be referred to as …A) Transfer rateB) RPMC) Clock rateD) NoneQ.4. The speed of a computer designed for scientific calculations, including performing long divisions,is typically measured in …A) TerabytesB) GigabytesC) FLOPSD) NoneQ.5. Which of the following could help reduce the risk of hard drive failures?A) CD-ROMB) RAIDC) DVD-ROMD) Floppy diskE) Solid-state memoryQ.6. Which of the following is not a computer input device?A) KeyboardB) SpeakersC) MouseD) Touch screenQ.7. How is the speed of a CPU, typically, measured?A) in MegabytesB) in fetching roundsC) in HertzD) none of the aboveQ.8. Which of the following may be checked to determine a hard drive’s speed?A) The FSB speedB) The RPMC) The motherboardD) None 1/3Q.9. A company has 20 PCs that came with 300 GB serial ATA hard disk drives. Recently, the users noticed that the computers are running slower than they used to. Which of the following may be done to improve the computers’ performance?A) Upgrade the disks by installing SCSI hard drives with larger capacity than the 300 GB.B) Upgrade the disks by installing serial ATA hard drives with larger capacity than the 300 GB.C) Replace the existing disks with 300GB SATA solid state disks.D) NoneQ.10. Typically, upgrading to a faster processor improves a computer’s performance. Which of the following the degree of performance increase may depend on?A) The FSB speedB) The RAMC) Both a and bD) Neither a nor bQ.11. You work for ABC Inc. which has its IT infrastructure spread across three different sites in the state of Illinois. About half of the computers use less than 30% of their processing capacity. The company is planning on buying a super workstation or a powerful server for hosting a major sales’ analysis and forecasting system. During the Steering committee meeting, your boss who knows about your IT expertise asked you if there is any way of using the unused extra processing capacity of the existing computers as an alternative to acquiring a super workstation or a powerful server. Name one alternative solution and explain how it would work.Q.12. Which of the following input devices would not be classified as a machine-readable device? (Circleall correct answers)A) Bar codes readerB) MICR readerC) ScannerD) keyboardE) stylusQ.13. The image that appears on a monitor is made up of thousands of tiny dots known as: A) Dots per inch B) PixelsC) MICRs D) MIPSQ.14. Which of the following is not a computer input device?A) KeyboardB) MouseC) stylusD) NoneQ.16. There are eight bits in a byte T FQ.17. A Gigabyte represents a larger amount of data capacity than a Terabyte T FQ.18. The Arithmetic and Logic Unit is the CPU’s component responsible for fetching instructions from the computer memory. T FQ.19. A workstation is a kind of computer used by architects, engineers, and scientists. This kind of computer is designed with a powerful CPU that may contain advanced graphics capabilities. T F 2/3Q.20. The Random Access Memory (RAM) is a secondary storage in a computer system, and a Hard disk is a primary storage. T FQ.21. The speed of SSD disks is measured in RPM. T FQ.22 The RAM contains critical programs such as those that boot the computer. T FQ.23 In a computer system, the ROM is what holds the programs and data we are currently working on.T FQ.24 ROM is memory that is volatile T F


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