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CBA Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an electronic device operating under the control ofinstructions stored in its own memory unit | Computer |
| input, processing, output, storage | information processing cycle |
| the brain of the computer | CPU |
| intel, athlon | cpu |
| made up of the control unit and arithmetic unit | cpu |
| RAM | Memory |
| Holds the instructions used to run all open programs | Memory |
| One character of data | Byte |
| One thousand bytes | Kilobyte |
| One million bytes | Megabyte |
| One billion bytes | Gigabyte |
| One trillion bytes | Terabyte |
| impact printer | dot matrix |
| non-impact printers | ink jet |
| two examples of monitors | crt and lcd |
| cd that can only be read from | cd-rom |
| cd that can be written to only once | cd-r |
| cd that can be written to and erased | cd-rw |
| a typical cd holds approximately | 650 mb |
| two types of software | systems and applications |
| what is the most common systems software | Windows |
| When the opeating system is loaded loaded into memory | booting up |
| operating systems use this to provide visual cues such as icons | graphical user interface |
| Name 3 application software | spreadsheet database word processing |