ELE 201: Digital Electronics for Telecomm I

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Module 1 Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 1.

1. What are the four tasks that software uses hardware for?
2. What is the technology of storing and reading only two states called?
3. Identify the three elements needed by input, output or storage devices.
4. Electrical devices need power to operate. Identify two possible sources of power for a device.
5. What is the primary input device for a computer?
6. What are the two technologies used by a mouse to track movement and control the location of the pointer?
7. How do manufacturers usually rate a monitor?
8. What technology is most often used to manufacture microchips?
9. What two types of cables are often found inside the computer case?
10. What is the best way to identify a cable?
11. What are the two other names of a computer motherboard?
12. What are devices not directly on the motherboard called?
13. Identify the components that allow the CPU to communicate with other devices.
14. State the function of the chip set.
15. Which storage has faster access - permanent or primary?
16. What kind of devices provide primary storage?
17. Identify the most important difference between primary and secondary storage.
18. What are the two major ATA standards for hard drives?
19. What is a motherboard bus?
20. Identify the purpose of the system clock.
21. What is the main bus of a motherboard called?
22. The clock speed of my processor is rated at 2.5GHz. How many cycles per second is my processor capable of?
23. Identify the DC voltages that newer power supplies provide.
24. What are the three purposes of motherboard ROM BIOS?
25. What is the purpose of CMOS RAM?

Know the following terms:

• BIOS
• Circuit Board
• DIMM
• Firmware
• Flash ROM
• Jumper
• Port
• Protocol
• RAM
• System Clock
• Trace/Traces
• Volatile/Nonvolatile

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