Package Title: Reading Questions Tech Guide 1
Course Title: Rainer IS 5e
Chapter Number: Tech Guide 1
Question type: True-False
1) Hardware is simply the computer itself.
2) The central processing unit performs the actual computation or “number crunching” inside any
computer.
3) Decisions about hardware focus on which of the following factors?
a) power
b) appropriateness for the task
c) speed
d) cost
e) all of the above
4) Mainframes are relatively large computers used by corporations for centralized data
processing and maintenance of large databases.
5) Which of the following categories of general purpose computers is the lest expensive?
a) Supercomputers.
b) Midrange Computers
c) Microcomputers
d) Mainframe Computers
6) Thin-client systems are more complex than fat client systems.
7) Which of the following is not an input device?
a) Keyboard
b) Touch Screen
c) Camera
d) Monitor
8) The _____ is the number of bits that can be processed by the CPU at one time.
a) clock speed
b) word length
c) bus width
d) line width
e) none of the above
9) The central processing unit is the same thing as the microprocessor.
10) Registers in the CPU store large amounts of data and instructions for long periods of time.