Module 9 Study Questions
Technology in Action (6th Ed.)
Pages 420 to 459

  1. Be able to define the following key terms:
    1. Analog
    2. Analog-to-digital conversion
    3. Bus
    4. Codec
    5. Microprocessor
    6. Motherboard
    7. Parallel processing
    8. Pipelining
    9. Register

  2. What is the advantage of a digital recording over analog?

  3. What determines the image quality of a digital camera?

  4. What is the difference between the RAW and JPEG file formats used by digital cameras?

  5. Identify two ways you can transfer images from a digital camera to your computer?

  6. Be able to convert any decimal number from zero to 100 into its binary equivalent. For example the decimal number 67 converts to 1000011 in binary.

  7. What do ASCII (American Standard Code of Information Interchange) and Unicode do?

  8. Identify three electronic components of a computer that are found on the motherboard.

  9. When comparing CPU processing power, what has the greatest impact on how fast they work?

  10. What does a GPU (graphics processing unit) do?

  11. What are the four steps of a CPU's machine cycle?

  12. Can you upgrade cache memory and what do the authors recommend regarding the purchase of RAM and cache memory?

  13. What is the difference between a computer's machine language and ASCII?

  14. Identify seven mathematical operations performed by an ALU (arithmetic logic unit).

  15. How is ROM used?

  16. List the type of hardware that connects to each of the following expansion buses.
    1. EISA (Extended Industrial Standard Architecture)
    2. PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express)
      NOTE: AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) expansion buses were designed for graphics/video cards.

  17. What did you find interesting in this week’s reading that was not part of a study guide question?

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