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ITeaser
Think your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this ITeaser and find out for sure:
1. A byte corresponds to
a. 4 bits
b. 8 bits
c. 16 bits
d. 32 bits.
2. Clock speed is measured in
a. bits per second
b. baud
c. bytes
d. Hertz.
3. Cache memory
a. has greater capacity than RAM
b. is faster to access than CPU registers
c. is permanent storage
d. is faster to access than DRAM.
4. A machine cycle refers to
a. fetching an instruction
b. clock speed
c. fetching, decoding and executing an instruction
d. executing an instruction.
5. An interrupt instruction
a. causes an unconditional transfer of control
b. causes a conditional transfer of control
c. modifies the status register
d. is an I/O instruction.
6. SRAM
a. is cheaper than DRAM
b. is used at boot up time only
c. is used for cache memory
d. is slower to access than DRAM.
7. QWERTY is used with reference to
a. screen layout
b. mouse button layout
c. keyboard layout
d. word processing software.
8. A compiler is
a. someone who converts a program to machine code
b. slower than an interpreter
c. a fast interpreter
d. none of the above.
9. JPEG and MPEG
a. have to do with compression of graphics and video
b. have to do with webpages
c. the internet
d. none of the above.
10. The Motorola 68000 processor features
a. 16-bit
b. 32-bit
c. 64 bit
d. 8-bit.
Answers: 1b, 2d, 3d, 4c, 5d, 6c, 7c, 8a, 9a, 10b.
— Mashhood Rastgar
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