Expansion slots - True

USB - False

FireWire - False

Parallel ports - False

1. PS/2 and DB-9 are two types of _____ ports.

Serial - True

Parallel - False

USB - False

PCI - False

1. Serial ports transfer data _____ bit(s) at a time, whereas parallel ports transfer data _____ bit(s) at a time.

True

8, 1 - False

8, 16 - False

16, 8 - False

1. The width of a computer bus is typically measured in

Bits - True

Hertz - False

Bytes per second - False

Pixels - False

1. Data is typically transferred between the disk controller and storage devices by the _____ bus.

IDE - True

AGP - False

Memory - False

Front side - False

1. Printer resolution is measured in terms of

Dots per inch - True

Dot pitch - False

Pixels - False

Millimeters - False

1. Cathode-ray-tube computer monitors use _____ color mixing, whereas color printers typically use _____ color mixing.

RGB, CMYK - True

CMYK, RGB - False

ROY, BIV - False

BIV, ROY - False

1. Examples of magnetic storage include which of the following?

• Hard disks
• Floppy disks
• Zip disks

I, II, and III - True

I and II only - False

II and III only - False

I and III only - False

1. Examples of optical storage include which of the following?

• CD-ROM disks
• CD-RW disks
• DVD-ROM disks

I, II, and III - True

I and II only - False

II and III only - False

I and III only - False

1. Which of the following is (are) true regarding data transfer rates of storage devices?

• Sequential-access devices have faster transfer rates than random-access devices.
• A device with 50 ms access time is faster than a device with 10 ms access time.

None - True

I and II - False

I only - False

II only - False

1. Advantages of floppy disks over hard disks include which of the following?

• Faster access times
• Easy to carry from one computer to another
• Lower cost per byte of storage

II only - True

I and II only - False

II and III only - False

I, II, and III - False

1. Which of the following is (are) true regarding tape drives?

• Tape drives are random-access devices.
• Tape drives are generally very useful as back-up devices.

II only - True

I and II - False

I only - False

None - False

1. Which of the following is (are) true regarding hard disks?

• Data on hard disks is stored as volatile electric charges.
• Personal computers typically have more RAM than hard drive capacity.
• Accessing data on a hard disk is faster than accessing data in RAM.

None - True

I only - False

II and III only - False

I and III only - False

1. If two devices are attached to the same IDE port, they must be designated as

Master and slave - True

Primary and secondary - False

IDE and ATA - False

IDE and EIDE - False

1. Which of the following is (are) true regarding DVDs?

• They can have tracks on both sides of the disk.
• They can have two layers of tracks on one side of the disk.

I and II - True

I only - False

II only - False

None - False

1. Which of the following is (are) true regarding removable optical and magnetic media?

• Optical media are generally more durable than magnetic media.
• Optical media generally have a lower cost per megabyte of storage when compared to magnetic media.

I and II - True

I only - False

II only - False

None - False

1. Which of the following is the term for a step in a process that takes a much longer time to complete than do other steps in the process, thus reducing overall performance?

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