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St.

Nicolas College of Business and Technology


INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

NAME: ______________________________________ COURSE&SEC: ___________________

I. IDENTIFICATION

__________________1. Contains the hard drive, disc drive, CPU, graphics card, and sound card,
and countless ports used to connect external devices to your computer.
__________________2. The largest circuit card in the system unit.
__________________3. Interprets and carries out the basic instruction of the computer.
__________________4. Used to store data, instruction, and information
__________________5. retained when the computer is turned off.
__________________6. erased when the computer is turned off.
__________________7. Certain operating system files are loaded from a storage device and
remain there until the computer is turned off
__________________8. Synchronizes, or controls the timing of, all computer operations
__________________9. Chips that store frequently used instructions and data, to help speed up
processing
__________________10. Contains the sequence of instructions the computer follows to load the
operating system and other files when starting the computer
__________________11. Acronym meaning of CMOS
__________________12. An opening where a circuit board can be inserted on the motherboard.
__________________13. These are the keyboard, monitor, printer, mouse, microphone, and
scanner
__________________14. Capable of transmitting more than one bit at a time
__________________15. Transmits only one bit of data at a time
__________________16. can connect up to 127 different peripheral devices with a single
connector.
__________________17. captures data and sends it to a computer system.
__________________18. convert physical movement, such as key pressing, or environmental
data, such as temperature, sound or light into electrical signals.
__________________19. The most common input device
__________________20. consists of a pad and a special pen
__________________21. Most common pointing device
__________________22. is basically an upside down ball mouse.
__________________23. requires a human hand to control it.
__________________24. convert printed images or text into a file of digital data.
__________________25. Originally designed for pilots to control aeroplanes.
__________________26. Used for taking still images which can be uploaded to a computer for
permanent storage
__________________27. A pointing device, built into a laptop for convenience
__________________28. inputs data without the need for human intervention (once the device
has been set up)
St. Nicolas College of Business and Technology
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

__________________29. print important data on the bottom of cheques using magnetic ink
__________________30. Used when you mark the numbers with a pencil on a lottery ticket
__________________31. Uses a scanner to scan text, then software converts the text into a word
processor file
__________________32. It used to read code which identifies the product name, manufacturer
and country of origin
__________________33. are more commonly known as flat screens or LCD screens
__________________34. When connected to a computer through a sound card, music can be
played
__________________35. specialist printers that can produce high quality printouts on large
pieces of paper

II. ENUMERATION

1-4 Generation of Computer


5-7 Three Fundamental elements of computer
8-12 Types of Computer
13-17 Input Devices
18-25 Output Devices

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