Basic PC Components Review Exercises

  1. Which of the following devices or components is probably the LEAST important device on a PC used primarily for "word processing"?

    1. memory size
    2. Hard Disk Drive
    3. Graphics Accelerator
    4. Expansion Bus

  2. A monitor is probably the most obvious output device on a PC. The two most important factors in purchasing a monitor would be _____ and ____ if you were concerned with quality viewing.

    1. Physical size and refresh rate.
    2. Physical size and refresh rate.
    3. Resolution and dot pitch.
    4. none of the above.

  3. The speed of your CPU is of importance; however, other parts such as ____ memory, cache memory, and system and _____ buses are also important.

    1. RAM, expansion
    2. video, PCI
    3. RAM, local
    4. All of the above.

  4. The primary component that ties all the parts of the computer together on the mother board is called the

    1. expansion slots.
    2. buses
    3. CPU
    4. memory

  5. The component that is necessary to boot and perform the Power On Self Tests is the

    1. ROM BIOS
    2. Config.sys file.
    3. Hard Disk Drive.
    4. RAM memory.

  6. Which of the following is considered the most basic component of a PC?

    1. hard disk drive.
    2. printer.
    3. motherboard.
    4. monitor

  7. Primary Storage in computer terminology, refers to

    1. hard disk drive
    2. random access memory (RAM)
    3. the storage device where the Operating System is stored.
    4. ROM BIOS

  8. Secondary storage devices are

    1. long term, high capacity devices such as hard disks.
    2. temporary storage such as RAM.
    3. diskettes, tapes, or removable devices.
    4. None of the above.

  9. A "Color Graphics Array" monitor has ______ x _____ pixels maximum.

    1. 300 x 200
    2. 640 x 200
    3. 640 x 480
    4. 640 x 400

  10. A "pixel" on a monitor's CRT is made up of colors. With combinations of these colors, _____, _____, and ______, you can make most other colors.

    1. yellow, green, red
    2. red, green, blue
    3. black, yellow, green
    4. black, white, red
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