Inside a Computer

Inside a Computer

9th - 10th Grade

15 Qs

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Inside a Computer

Inside a Computer

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Computers

9th - 10th Grade

Medium

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The _____ is the computer's main circuit board. It's a thin plate that holds the CPU, memory, connectors for the hard drive and optical drives, expansion cards to control the video and audio, and connections to your computer's ports (such as USB ports).

Processor

Motherboard

Random Access Memory

Hard drive

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

The central processing unit (CPU), also called a _____, is located inside the computer case on the motherboard. It is sometimes called the brain of the computer, and its job is to carry out commands. Whenever you press a key, click the mouse, or start an application, you're sending instructions to it.

Motherboard

Random Access Memory

Processor

Hard drive

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The CPU fits into the motherboard's CPU socket, which is covered by the _____, an object that absorbs heat from the CPU.

Heat sink

Processor

Random Access Memory

Hard drive

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

_____ is your system's short-term memory. Whenever your computer performs calculations, it temporarily stores the data here until it is needed.

Motherboard

Processor

Hard drive

RAM (random access memory)

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

A processor's speed is measured in megahertz (MHz), or millions of instructions per second; and gigahertz (GHz), or billions of instructions per second.

True

False

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

RAM is measured in megabytes (MB) or gigahertz (GHz).

True

False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The more RAM you have, the more things your computer can do at the same time.

True

False

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