Intro to Computing Quiz

These are semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power, it regulates current or voltage flow and acts as a switch or gate for electronic signals. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit each capable of carrying a current.  

It is a printed circuit board which is the foundation of a computer, allocates power and allows communication to the CPU, RAM, and all other computer hardware components, it is the link between all the different components inside your computer.

This is the physical hardware inside a computer that temporarily stores data, serving as the computer's temporary storage, it allows a computer to work with more information at the same time, which usually has a significant effect on total system performance.

This is an Intel chipset that manages the basic forms of input/output such as Universal Serial Bus, serial, audio, Integrated Drive Electronics, and Industry Standard Architecture in a computer.

It is an Intel chipset that communicates with the computer processor and controls interaction with memory, the Peripheral Component Interconnect bus, Level 2 cache, and all Accelerated Graphics Port activities.

 

It is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

This is the core component of an operating system that acts as a bridge between applications and the data processing performed at the hardware level, it manages the operations of the computer and the hardware such as the memory and the CPU time.

A Linux program that provides a special interpreter which can be used to execute commands of the operating system. It can be used to do various types of operations, call application programs. etc.

It is an emulation of a computer system based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer that is installed on software, which imitates dedicated hardware. This does not only exhibits the behavior of a separate computer, but is also capable of performing tasks such as running applications and programs like a separate computer.

The process of taking a physical hard disk and subdividing it into logical portions.