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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:
1. The die-size of a processor is the:
a. Length of the processor
b. Width of the processor
c. Both the length and the width of the processor
d. Length three-dimensional area of the processor
2. Which is the most efficient and expensive of CPU caches?
a. L1 cache
b. L2 cache
c. L3 cache
d. External cache
3. What is FSB?
a. Front Side Bus
b. The speed of the bus connecting the processor, its chipset and connected main memory
c. Front Serial Bus
d. Both a and b
4. Nasa’s new super computer called “The Columbia” is powered by how many Intel Itanium2 processors?
a. 2,000
b. 3,400
c. 10,240
d. 11,440
5. “The Columbia” is capable of performing how many calculations per second?
a. 42.7 trillion
b. 53.2 trillion
c. 745 billion
d. 34.8 trillion
6. One Tera-byte is equal to:
a. 10 raised to the power12 bytes
b. 1000 gigabytes
c. 1000000 megabytes
d. All of the above
7. One Teraflop means:
a. 1 trillion bytes of storage
b. 1 trillion calculations per second speed
c. 1 trillion megabytes of storage
d. 1 trillion megabytes per second speed
8. The latest Pentium4 processor which has a 1066MHz system bus, can transport how much data in and out of the processor per second?
a. 190 MB
b. 600 MB
c. 3.6 GB
d. 8.5 GB
9. 1000 tera-bytes is equal to:
a. 1 zetta byte
b. 1 exa byte
c. 1 peta byte
d. 1 yotta byte
10. NIC stands for:
a. Network Interface Card
b. Network Internet Card
c. Network Initiation card
d. Napster Internet Card
ANSWERS: 1c; 2a; 3d; 4c; 5a; 6d; 7b; 8d; 9c; 10a
— By Faraz Noorani
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