Computer Knowledge

Question 1

What is the mother board

Answer 1

The heart of the computer, everything is either on the mother or attached to it

Question 2

What is a CPU

Answer 2

Directly attached to motherboard

Executes programas and receives data input

Question 3

What is BUS

Answer 3

Moves signals throughout the computer, if further away from CPU, could be slower

Question 4

What is a sound card

Answer 4

Responsable for sound, attached in a special slot on mother board

Question 5

What is the graphics card

Answer 5

Responsible for the images you see on the screen

Attached to mother board on special slot

Question 6

What is RAM

Answer 6

RAM chips are inserted as sticks onto motherboard
Stores temporary information, if computer turns off, ram is emptied
It’s volatile

Question 7

What is ROM

Answer 7

ROM chips are attached to motherboard
Does not lose info when computer is turned off
Not volatile

Question 8

What is Cache

Answer 8

Copies data from ROM but can be accessed a lot quicker

Question 9

What is a hard drive disk

Answer 9

Connects to motherboard with a cable , has lots of storage such as terabytes

Question 10

What is a solid state drive (ssd)

Answer 10

Store memory but run a lot faster than hard drives (expensive