Y10 DINT - 15/5/24

Which of these contains instructions used by the CPU when a computer is booting up?

• Hard disk drive

• RAM

• ROM

Which part of the CPU performs operations such as AND, OR and NOT?

• Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

• Control Unit (CU)

• Memory Data Register (MDR)

A device driver is a piece of software which...

• provides a user interface

• allows an OS to interact with internal hardware or peripherals

• manages user files and applications

Which of the following types of storage media are commonly used by businesses to archive large amounts of data?

• Hard disk drive

• Optical disk

• Magnetic tape

Processor registers temporarily hold data needed by...

• the CPU

• RAM

• the hard disk drive

Which of these types of storage generally has the highest cost per gigabyte?

• Solid state drives

• Hard disk drives

• Magnetic tape

In the Von Neumann architecture, the same memory unit is used for data and instructions.

• True

• False

An operating system helps with file management by...

• compressing every file

• arranging the files into a hierarchical structure

The World Wide Web is based on...

• a client-server relationship

• a peer-to-peer relationship

• a network protocol

True or False? "A WAN connects LANs across large geographical distances."

• True

• False