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_______ ports are the standard high-speed networking ports for many of today's computers.

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RAM is considered temporary, or volatile, storage.

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Explain expansion slots and cards.

Firewire ports are used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, and storage devices.

ASCII supports Chinese and Japanese.

Compare and contrast the four most common types of system units.

A byte is formed by a group of _______.

Explain Plug and Play.

The most widely used character encoding standard today is _______.

In most personal computer systems, the CPU is contained on a single chip called the _______.

With these systems, input and output devices are located outside the system unit.

_______ ports provide high-speed connections can connect up to seven separate devices connected one to another.

VGA and DVI ports provide connections to monitors.

Which of the following offers a combination of the features of RAM and ROM?

Parallel processing requires a computer to perform one complete task before beginning the next task.

When you reboot your system, the computer follows startup instructions stored in this type of memory.

With this type of memory, large programs are divided into parts and the parts are stored on a secondary device, usually a hard disk.

Term used to describe the number of bits that a CPU can access at one time.

Plug and Play has become a generic term that is associated with the ability to plug any device into a computer and have it play or work immediately.

Which of the following can be used to connect several devices to the system unit and are widely used to connect keyboards, mice, printers, storage devices, and a variety of specialty devices?