1.

The electronic components and circuitry, such as processor and memory, usually
are part of or are connected to a circuit board called the motherboard
2. A computer chip is a small piece of semi-conducting material on which integrated
circuits are etched.
3. Most chips are no bigger than one-half-inch square.
4. The main components in the system unit. The mother board part includes: CPU,
Memory, expansion slots, ports, bus, system clock.
5. A multi-core processor is/are a single chip with two or more separate processor
cores.
6. The CU is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the
operations in the computer.
7. The ALU perform arithmetic, comparison, and other operation.
8. The four steps in the machine cycle? (1)Fetch(2)Decode(3)Execute(4)Store.
9. The system clock generates regular electronic pulses that set the operating pace of
components of the system unit.
10. Another type of processor, called system on a chip, integrates the functions of a
processor, memory, and a video card on a single chip.
11. Parallel processing divides a single problem into portions so that multiple
processor work on their assigner portion of the problem at the same time.
12. A byte provides enough different combinations of 0s and 1s to represent 256
individual characters.
13. Memory is the electronic components that store instructions and data waiting to be
executed.
14. To simplify memory and storage definitions, computer users often round a
kilobyte down to 1000 bytes.
15. When the computers power is turn off, volatile memory loses its contents.
16. Three basic type of RAM chips exist: dynamic RAM, SRAM, and magneto
resistive Ram.
17. What helps speed the processes of the computer by storing frequently used
instructions and data. Caches
18. L1 cache is built directly in the processor chip.
19. These ROM chips, called firmware, contain permanently written data,
instructions, or information.
20. An expansion slot is a socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter card.
21. In the computer, what component can provide connections to external devices
called peripherals. adapter card
22. Having Plug and Play support means you can plug in a device, turn on the
computer, and then immediately begin using the device.

23. Instead of port, the term jack sometimes is used to identify audio and video ports.
24. The address bus is used to transfer information about where the data should reside
in memory.
25. A drive bay is a rectangular opening that typically holds disk drives.