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A high level language
Python
Assembly
Machine Code
C++
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What is missing?
Process
Storage
Output
Input
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Hard Disk Drive is an example of
Optical
Solid State
Magnetic
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A computer consists of...
Potatoes
Hardware
Software
Hardware & Software
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Has no moving parts
Solid State
Magnetic
Optical
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The period of time a process is allowed to run
Allocated Time
Time schedule
Run length
Time slice
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Has a large capacity
Magnetic
Solid state
Optical
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Which one is not part of this structure?
USB
Monitor
Printer
Speaker
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What is the missing value
0
1
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Uses lasers to write and read data from a Disk
Solid State
Magnetic
Optical
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Allows you to have direct control of the CPU
Low level language
High level language
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Getting instructions from memory, understanding, and carrying it out is which?
Fetch-decode-execute cycle
Clock cycle
Bi-cycle
Assembly cycle
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Give the full name for the CPU
Complete Processing Unit
Central Processing Unit
Control Processor Unit
Central Password Unit
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Converts Assembly language into Machine code
Translator
Assembler
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Define Software
Integrated component of a computer
Internal parts of a computer
Devices on a computer that contain applications
Instructions that allow tasks to be performed
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Software can be used to simulate and model aspects of the real world
True
False
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Keyboards, Mouse, Microphones, Scanners, are examples of?
Input
Output
Process
Storage
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Allows you to move, create, delete, edit files
Application software
System software
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Uses a spinning platter which uses a needle to magnetise section of the platter to store data
Solid State
Optical
Magnetic
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What is a stored program concept
The concept used to make software
Where instructions and data are stored in electronic memory
Where programs are stored
The storing of applications inside a computer system
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A temporary storage area within the CPU
Register
Address Bus
ALU
Clock
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Translates high level language into machine code line by line
Compiler
Interpreter
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Select a function which is
NOT
part of an operating system
Network management
Logic management
Resource and process management
File management
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Name a secondary storage device
Hard drive
Cache
Register
RAM
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Computational model is...
The planning and designing of computers
The study of the way computers work
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What is the missing value
1
0
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Holds memory locations of instructions and data
Data bus
Control bus
Cache
Address Bus
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A low level language
Python
Java
C++
Assembly
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What are the two types of virtual machine
Application and Whole system
Whole System and Process
Client and Server
Single application and Whole system
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In what format are those instructions and data stored
Binary
Denary
Hexadecimal
Assembly
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The speed of the processor
Address Bus
ALU
Clock
Data bus
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A micro controller is...
Sophisticated tiny computers embedded in PCs
A microcomputer which is used to run multiple errands
A small dedicated computer with a specific purpose
Tiny parts of a computer
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Allows you to complete a task
Application software
System software
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Which VM provides a simple operating system
Process
Whole system
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Define Hardware
Temporary and permanent storage devices
External parts of a computer
A collection of things
Physical parts of a computer
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Sends signals/instructions to other components of the fetch decode execute cycle
Register
ALU
Control Unit
Clock
