ITE 221 Final Exam Verified 2024
OS ____________________ functions ensure that overall system objectives are
achieved efficiently and effectively. - ANSWER-resource allocation
____ devices combine optical-scanning technology with a special-purpose processor or
software to interpret bitmap content.
Optical image recognition
Optical character recognition
Optical character reproduction
Optical image resolution - ANSWER-optical character recognition
____ in the CPU are storage locations for instructions and data.
ALUs
Shifters
Registers
Controllers - ANSWER-Registers
____ is a generic term for describing secondary storage data transfer units.
Sector
Wafer
Cluster
Block - ANSWER-block
____ is a process that generates color approximations by placing small dots of different
colors in an interlocking pattern.
Merging
Banding
Dithering
Retracing - ANSWER-dithering
____ is a read-ahead RAM that uses the same clock pulse as the system bus.
Synchronous DRAM
Asynchronous DRAM
Flash DRAM
Continuous DRAM - ANSWER-Synchronous DRAM
____ is a standard for storing and transporting control information between computers
and electronic musical instruments.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Musical Instrument Direction Interface
Musical Interface Digital Interconnection
Musical Interconnection Digital Interface - ANSWER-Musical instrumental digital
interface
,____ is implemented entirely with transistors.
Dynamic RAM
Static RAM
Dynamic ROM
Static ROM - ANSWER-Static Ram
____ is the assignment of specific memory addresses to system software, application
programs, and data.
Memory allocation
Memory management
Memory mapping
Memory control - ANSWER-memory allocation
____ is the most important characteristic differentiating primary and secondary storage.
Capacity
Density
Transfer rate
Speed - ANSWER-Speed
____ is the process of recognizing and responding to the meaning embedded in spoken
words, phrases, or sentences.
Text recognition
Pattern recognition
Speech recognition
Natural recognition - ANSWER-speech recognition
____ is the time required to read the second of two adjacent sectors on the same track
and platter.
Track-to-track seek time
Rotational delay
Sequential access time
Average access time - ANSWER-sequential access time
____ output is only able to generate one frequency (note) at a time.
Stereophonic
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Monosyllabic - ANSWER-monophonic
____ scheduling chooses the next thread to be dispatched based on the expected
amount of CPU time needed to complete the process.
Shortest time remaining
First in first out
Last in first out
Least recently used - ANSWER-shortest time remaining
, ____ store information about page locations, allocated page frames, and secondary
storage space.
Page tears
Page blocks
Page tables
Page addresses - ANSWER-page tables
____ stores each bit by using a single transistor and capacitor.
Dynamic ROM
Static ROM
Dynamic RAM
Static RAM - ANSWER-Dynamic RAM
____ uses memory address operands that refer to actual physical memory locations.
Relative addressing
Virtual addressing
Absolute addressing
Random addressing - ANSWER-absolute addressing
____________________ is a read-ahead RAM that uses the same clock pulse as the
system bus. - ANSWER-Synchronous DRAM
____________________ is the capability of a substance or magnetic storage medium
to accept and hold a magnetic charge. - ANSWER-coercivity
____________________ is the only widely used form of serial access storage. -
ANSWER-magnetic tape
____________________ RAM is the most common non-volatile RAM used today. -
ANSWER-Flash
____________________ touchscreen input interprets a sequence of touch information
as a single command - ANSWER-gesture-based
(quiz 12 & 11)A process or program that divides itself into multiple threads is said to be
____.
multi-headed
multipartite
multithreaded
multiplied - ANSWER-multithread
(quiz 12 & 14) A ____ can execute instructions to process a single transaction, retrieve
and store data from an I/O device, or retrieve and analyze one set of process variables.
thread bundle
process cycle
thread cycle
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