Test 3 consists of 50 questions drawn from the following Mercer County Community College Computer Concepts Test 3 Covers Chapters 2 6 8 and 9 for IST101 IST102 and IST103 all sections 1 A n is the container in which you find the motherboard hard drive and CPU 2 A n is found in one of two states off or on 3 Based on the idea of an electrical switch the language consists of 0s and 1s that a computer understands 4 was put into use in 1945 and took up 1 800 square feet of floor space 5 A n is material that can transmit or prohibit the flow of electricity 6 A n is made up by layering semiconductor material 7 The base 10 number system is also called A binary notation B hexadecimal notation C decimal notation D unary notation 8 The base 2 number system is also called A binary notation B hexadecimal notation C decimal notation D unary notation 9 The base 16 number system is also called A binary notation B hexadecimal notation C decimal notation D unary notation 10 Using 8 bits the code can represent the 26 uppercase letters and the 26 lowercase letters in the English language and punctuation symbols as well as special characters 11 The connects all of the system s electric components the CPU memory expansion slots and electrical paths that connect these components 12 All of the following are examples of processors EXCEPT A Pentium B Celeron C Plutonium 3 D Itanium 2 13 The PowerPC G5 processor was designed for the A Xbox B Apple computer C Nintendo Wii D Windows operating system 14 is measured in Hertz and refers to how quickly a processor can work 15 Hyperthreading and multi core technology differ A in that hyperthreading requires that the resources of one chip are shared whereas multi core has two or more chips and uses its own resources B in that multi core is slower and hyperthreading is hyper or fast MCCC Computer Concepts Test Study Guide 1 C D in that hyperthreading technology uses a bigger chip whereas multi core has multiple small chips not at all they are just different names for the same thing 16 The multi step process that a CPU follows for each instruction it encounters is called A the CPU cycle B the instruction cycle C the processor cycle D the machine cycle 17 The following are steps in the CPU machine cycle EXCEPT A fetch B decode C generate D store 18 A system clock is built into the A hard drive B motherboard C expansion card D bus 19 The proper sequence of actions in a machine cycle is A fetch decode execute store B fetch execute decode store C decode fetch execute store D execute decode store fetch 20 The of the CPU manages the on off switches inside the CPU 21 In a CPU the control unit works most like a A calculator B traffic cop directing traffic C road block stopping incoming traffic to the CPU D translator converting the letters entered on the keyboard into binary code 22 Clock speed is measured in A seconds B minutes C Hertz D bits per second bps 23 Cache memory is all of the following EXCEPT A located close to the CPU B very quick C categorized by levels 1 2 and 3 D easy to add to an existing computer system 24 Which of the following types of memory is optional to most computers A Level 1 cache B Level 2 cache C Level 3 cache D RAM 25 Which programming language is a string of 1s and 0s A Machine language B Assembly language C ADA D C 26 A specific set of commands understandable by the CPU is called the A instruction set MCCC Computer Concepts Test Study Guide 2 B C D clock cycle program instructions instruction code 27 Which programming language uses simplistic commands such as ADD SUB and MOVE A Machine language B Assembly language C ADA D C 28 The refers to the commands that a CPU knows how to complete 29 In a 64 bit processor the 64 refers to the size 30 The ALU part of the CPU A calculates and performs logical operations B directs the flow of instructions C stores information to the cache D fetches the initial instruction 31 refers to the time it takes to locate instructions and make them available to the CPU 32 The amount of bits that a bus can carry at one time is referred to as bus A height B width C depth D measurement 33 A is a group of computers that work collaboratively on complex problems using specialized software 34 The ability to work on more than one instruction during the four stages of processing is called A expanding B stacking C pipelining D staging 35 The use of multiple processors working together on one large problem is called A inline processing B parallel processing C group processing D expansion processing 36 The binary number system uses the numbers A 0 through 9 B 1 through 10 C 0 and 1 D 1 and 2 37 The decimal number system uses the numbers A 0 through 9 B 1 through 10 C 0 and 1 D 1 and 2 38 The hexadecimal number system uses the numbers A 0 through 9 B 1 through 10 C 0 through 9 and letters A F MCCC Computer Concepts Test Study Guide 3 D 0 through 15 39 ALU stands for A Arithmetic Logic Unit B Adding Logic and Usability C Alter Load and Use D Alternate Load Usage 40 The maximum number of CPUs that powerful mainframes can use is A 100 B 56 C 32 D 15 41 The current range of RAM in a computer is between 1 GB and A 75 GB B 33 GB C 15 GB D 4 GB 42 A place on the system unit that allows the transfer of data between a variety of devices and the computer is a A port B drive C keyboard D ROM 43 Which of the following is TRUE about USB ports A They are being phased out by parallel ports B USB 2 0 is faster than FireWire C They transfer information wirelessly D They have speeds up to 480 megabits per second 44 The port most often used to connect a keyboard to a computer is a n A WiFi port B Ethernet port C USB port D FireWire port 45 To connect your computer to a network the port may be used 46 Modem ports A are only external to the computer B are only internal to the computer C can be either internal or external to the computer D are neither external nor internal to the computer 47 If you want to connect a TV to your computer you need to use the A video port B S video port C DVI port D sound port 48 If you want to connect a flat panel monitor to your computer you need to use the A video port B S video …