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43 Cards in this Set
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a external power supply, used by some external peripherals, that converts Ac power to dc power?
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AC adapter.
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Measurment of the amount of time it takes the process to read data, instructions, and information from memory?
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Access time
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A circuit board that enhances functions of a component of a system unit and/or proveds connections to peripherals?
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Adaptor card.
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A continous wave signal
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Analog
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ALU
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Arithmetic logic unit.
Component of a processor that performs , arithmetic, comparison and other operations |
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A opening inside the system unit in which additional equipment can be installed?
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a Bay
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The number system used by computers that has just two digits, 0 and 1 called bits.
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Binary system
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The smallest unit of data a computer can process.
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A BIT.
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Network standord, spacificly a protocal, that defines how to bluetooth devices use short range radio waves to transmit data?
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Bluetooth
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Electrical channel that transfers electronic bits internally within the circultry of a computer, allowing the devices both inside and attached to the system to communicate sith each other?
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Bus.
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a external power supply, used by some external peripherals, that converts Ac power to dc power?
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AC adapter.
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Measurment of the amount of time it takes the process to read data, instructions, and information from memory?
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Access time
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A circuit board that enhances functions of a component of a system unit and/or proveds connections to peripherals?
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Adaptor card.
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A continous wave signal
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Analog
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ALU
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Arithmetic logic unit.
Component of a processor that performs , arithmetic, comparison and other operations |
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A opening inside the system unit in which additional equipment can be installed?
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a Bay
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The number system used by computers that has just two digits, 0 and 1 called bits.
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Binary system
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The smallest unit of data a computer can process.
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A BIT.
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Network standord, spacificly a protocal, that defines how to bluetooth devices use short range radio waves to transmit data?
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Bluetooth
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Electrical channel that transfers electronic bits internally within the circultry of a computer, allowing the devices both inside and attached to the system to communicate sith each other?
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Bus.
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Eight bits of information that are grouped together as a unit.
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Byte
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Area of memory that stores the contents of frequently used data or instructions?
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Cache
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Intel processer used by less expensive basic PCs
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Celron.
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what does CPU Stand for?
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Central processing unit.
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Small piece of simecondutiong matrieal usually silicon, on which interated circuits are etched?
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Chip
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Pace of the system clock, measured by the number of ticks per second.
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Clock speed
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What does CMOS stand for?
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CMOS Stands for Complementray metal oxide semiconductor.
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A device that joins a cable to a peripheral?
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Connector
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Component of a processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer?
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Control unit.
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Representation of data using only to discrete states on (1) off (0)?
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Digital.
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Rectangular openigs inside the system unit that typically hold disk drives?
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Drive Bays
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A socket on a motherboard that can hold an adapter card?
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Expansion socket
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Port that can cconnect multiple types of devices that require faster data transmition speeds?
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Firewire port.
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ROM chips that contain permanently written data, instructions, or information recorded on the chips when they were manufactured?
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Firmware
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A typeof non volatile memory that can be erased electronicly and rewritten?
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Flash memory.
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A Removable flash memory device that allows users to transfer data and informatin from mobil devices to thier desktop computers
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Flash memory Card
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A Billion bytes per second
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A Gigabite or GB.
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GHZ
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Gigahurtz one billion ticks of the system clock per second.
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A intel Processor used by workstations and low end servers?
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Itanium.
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Term sometimes used to idenity audio or video port?
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Jack
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Exaclty 1,024 bytes?
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Kilobite.
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Approximently 1 million bytes
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A megabite.
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Electronic componites in a computer that store instructions to be executed and data needed by those instructions?
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memory
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