Tech+ Section 8.0 Questions

What is the smallest unit of digital data?

• Kilobyte

• Megabyte

• Byte

• Gigabyte

A solid-state drive (SSD) is used to keep data ____.

• temporarily

• permanently

• occasionally

• rarely

What does 'throughput' measure in a network?

• The highest amount of data a network can handle at once

• How much data moves through the system in one second

• The number of pages you can read per hour

• The number of patients a doctor sees in a day.

Bandwidth is the ______ amount of data that a network can handle at once.

• lowest

• average

• highest

• random

Which of the following is equivalent to one million bits per second?

• Kbps

• Mbps

• Gbps

• Tbps

Fill in the blank: The network can only be as fast as its ________ part.

• fastest

• slowest

• average

• newest

What does processing speed describe in a computer?

• The speed of the internet connection

• How fast the computer itself works during a given operation or task

• The speed of the cooling fan

• The speed of the graphics card.

A computer's speed is measured in ______.

• Meters

• Seconds

• Hertz

• Bytes

What is the primary use of square waves in electronics?

• To power devices

• As clock signals

• To store data

• As a cooling mechanism.

If your computer has a 3.4 GHz processor, it can handle _______ operations per second.

• 3.4 million

• 3.4 billion

• 3.4 trillion

• 3.4 thousand