Cisco Semester 1 Vocabulary and Questions

Vocabulary

ASCII

Back Pane

Back Plane Components

Binary

Bits

Bus

Bytes

Capacitor

CD-ROM drive

CPU

Expansion slots

Floppy disk drive

Hard disk drive

Integrated circuit

Light emitting diodes (LEDs)

Local-area networks (LANs)

Microprocessor

Monitor connector

Mother board

Mouse port

Network

NIC

Parallel port

PC components

Personal Computer Subsystem

Power cord

Power supply

Printed circuit boards (PCBs)

Protocol

RAM

Resistor

ROM

Serial port

Throughput

Transistor

Video card

Wide-area networks (WANs)

Questions

1. What are the 4 major components of a PC?
2. What is the information flow in an idealized computer?
3. What is the relationship of NICs to PCs?
4. Compare PC components with laptop components.
5. What is data throughput and how does it relate to digital bandwidth?
6. Why are there different bandwidths?
7. What units measure the quantity of information?
8. How do binary numbers represent alphanumeric data?

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