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Which architecture had two data and program buses?

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Harvard

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T/F - Today modern computers follow the Modified Harvard Architecture

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True

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According to the lecture, the order of the booting process is:

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Power button, POST, MBR, NTLD (Operating System)

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Which cache’s sit on the CPU in modern computers?

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L1, L2, and L3

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According to the lecture, what sort of computer uses a terminal? (Keyboard and monitor?)

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Mainframe

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Which one of these components is not on the motherboard
Keyboard
Ram Slot
BIOS
Power Supply

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Power Suppy

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What is a core processor?

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A physical processing unit that runs independently inside of a CPU

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According to the lecture, which of the following key is used to get to the Phoenix BIOS?

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F10

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T/F - Both Optical Drives and DVD/CDs are considered secondary storage

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True

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What are the three parts of the CPU?

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Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control, Store/Register

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MBR Partition support up to____ TB or less

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2

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The first sector of a hard drive is

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MBR (Master Boot Record)

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T/F - These days some CPUs have up to 8 MB of Dynamic RAM

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False

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T/F - Virtual memory enhances performance by providing greater memory capacity, without the expense of adding main memory. Instead, a portion of a disk drive serves as an extension of the main memory

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True

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What is a thread?

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The smallest instruction that a CPU executes

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IDE hard drive has ___ pins and SATA hard drive has ___ pins

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IDE 40, Sata 7

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T/F - PROM -Programmable Read Only Memory can be altered

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False

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To alter the programming on an erasable or electronically erasable PROM chip you expose the chip to

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ultraviolet rays

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a SCSI hard drive has __ to __ pins

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50 to 68

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What is it called when the hard drive head touches the platter?

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Head crash

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On a hard drive the tracks are the _______ and the cylinders are the _______

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concentric circles on the disk, the vertical platters from the side view

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What is the seek time?

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The time it takes for the disk arm to move into position over the desired cylinder

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What is the rotational delay?

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The time it takes for the desired sector to move into position under the head

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What is Seektime + Rotational delay?

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Access time

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How many pins does a IDE floppy drive have? (note - different from IDE drive)
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T/F - A CD ROM has a spiral track as opposed to a hard drive which has a circular track
True
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Which RAID number covers disk mirroring?
RAID 1
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What is RAID 0? What is it called
Disk Stripe set - Identical data in partitions, increases reading and writing performance.
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What is RAID 5? What is it called?
Stripe with parity. Requires 3 or more drives, writes data to each drive horizontally
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T/F - Virtual memory is typically implemented using a hard drive; it extends the address space from RAM to the hard drive
True
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What type of memory is used for your computer BIOS?
EEPROM
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Emulation,.. - Name 2 more virtualization techniques.
Full-virtualization, Para-virtualization
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Name 2 types of Hypervisor
Host, Bare Metal
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Which type of hypervisor software is slower in performance?
Hosted VMM
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NTFS stands for
New Technology File System
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After partitioning the drive, you must ______ the drive
Format
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In windows, physical disk numbers begin from _, _, _
0, 2, 3
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Name the 3 Windows partitioning methods
MBR, GPT, Windows dynamic storage
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The first physical sector of every hard drive contains the
MBR
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The MBR supports up to _ bootable partitions
4
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_ primary parition(s) can be active
1
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T/F - You can boot to an extended drive
False
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You can have _ extended partitions
1
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How many logical partitions can you have within an extended partition?
24
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What naming pattern do partitions follow on Windows? What comes first?
Letters of the alphabet. First is C
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What does "GUID" in the GUID Partition Table stand form?
Global unique identifier
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How many partitions can a GPT handle?
128
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What is the theoretical limit of space a GPT can handle?
9 Zettabytes
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Unlike MBR/Partition tables, the GPT uses
a GPT header
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Name the 2 main Disk partitioning software packages
DiskPart (Windows 2k an dup) and FDISK (Everything else)
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What is an operating system?
An operating system is a large program that manages hardware and software resources
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Java, .net, Aneroid ------------------ C, Shell, C++ Which set of languages is OS dependent? Which set is independent?
C, Shell, and C++ are dependent. Java, .net, and Aneroid are independent.
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When it comes to program execution, what is the order from hard drive to execution?
Hard drive>Ram>Processor>Ram>execution
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Machine language works with ___ and _____ numbers
Binary and hexadecimal
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What is this an example of? MOV EAX,1 SHL EAX, 5 MOV ECX, 8 SUB EAX, EAX
Assembly language
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Every operating system has 3 parts, what are they?
Kernel, UI, API layer
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What does the Kernel do?
It manages memory, the processor, I/O, and File Management
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What does the API layer do?
It allows devices to talk to the OS
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What was the first operating system?
Unix
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What is a file system?
A system to organize and store data
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What does DLL stand for? What are they?
Dynamic Link Libraries. They're system files, usually system commands like save file, etc.
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What is special about NTFS?
You can apply access permissions on the files
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For partitions, all of Windows supports ___, but not all of Windows supports ___
MBR, GPT
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You must have _ TB of space to have a GPT partition
2TB
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The file structure in windows is a ________
Hierarchy
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What are the illegal file name characters in Windows?
\/?:*><|
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What is the sector size of an NTFS file system?
4KB
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No clue what this means but remember NTFS and the number 11
NUMBER 11! NTFS!
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CTRL+ESC
Displays the start menu
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ALT+ESC
Cycles through items in the order that they have been opened
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ALT+ENTER
Open the properties for the selected object
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ALT+SPACE
Displays system menu for active window (Lets you minimize, maximize)
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Windows explorer shorcuts: F2, F3, F4
F2 - Rename object F3 - Search F4 - Display address bar list
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Windows explorer shortcuts: F6
F6 - Cycle through screen elements in a window (sort of like tab by itself)
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Windows explorer shortcuts: Shift+F10, Shift + delete
Shift + F10 - Display shortcut menu for selected item Shift+Delete - Delete selection immediately, skipping recycle bin
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Which of the following attempts to capture personal data including passwords, SIN numbers, and bank accounts through deception? Worm Trojan Virus Phishing
Phishing
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which key combination do you use to get into the Windows settings Screen?
Windows key + I
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Electronic Recycling is also known as
Urban mining
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How many tons of E-waste is produced each year?
50 million
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When was the WEEE (Waste electrical and Electronic Equipment) program established?
2009
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When electronics are not recycled they are shipped to which countries? Options Japan China Haiti Honduras Kenya Ghana
China, Haiti, Ghana
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Prompt: Control of Trans-Boundary movements of hazardous wastes
Basel Convention
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When did Canada join the Basel Convention?
1989
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__ tons of earth must be removed to recover 1 troy ounce of gold
6
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Nigerian Widow Scam AKA
419 scam
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Parallel ports can send _ bits at a time, serial ports can send _ bits at a time
8 bits, 1 bit
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What is the key to access the BIOS/UEFI called?
Name key or Access key
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Explain what abstraction means in reference to computer science
Abstraction means the simplification of information from a larger dataset.
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"Full Speed Port". What colour?
USB 1.1, White
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"SuperSpeed", What colour?
USB 3.0, Blue
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"Hi-Speed port", What colour?
USB 2.1, Black
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A Hypervisor is also known as a
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
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Full Virtualization Examples
IBMs VM family, VMWare Workstation
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in Full Virtualization the host OS _____ _______
Emulates hardware
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OS-Level virtualization Examples
FreeBSD Jails, Solaris, Virtuzzo
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OS-Level virtualization Examples
FreeBSD Jails, Solaris, Virtuzzo

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