2007-2008

1st E.S.O. TECHNOLOGY

UNIT 2: COMPUTERS

UNIT 2 ACTIVITIES: COMPUTERS 7. Complete the following table

1. Order the following binary numbers from the lowest to the highest
DEVICE TYPE OF DEVICE ACTION
10010 0101010 1111001 101010 Power Supply
2. Complete the text below Input

a. The smallest piece of digital information in a computer is the ______, Display

which can be 0 or 1. A ________ is a group of 8 bits.
Hard Disk
3. What is the meaning of C.P.U., R.A.M. and R.O.M.?
Input/Output
4. How many bits has one Gigabyte (GB)?
8. Name two types (not names) of Application Programs
5. Put the different devices into the correct column

SYSTEM UNIT INPUT DEVICES OUTPUT DEVICES

9. Define SOFTWARE

10. Match the items from the left column with the correct answer in the right
column

Intel Pentium IV 3,4 GHz
RAM Memory

17’’ Monitor

Floppy Disk
Input Device
Microphone – Speakers – Touch Screen – Hard Disk - Monitor
Motherboard – Power Supply – RAM Memory – Printer – Keyboard –
Pen Drive 2 GB
Headphones – LAN Card

Mouse
C.P.U.
6. Say if the following sentences are True (T) or False (F):
Hard Disk 250 GB

4 USB Ports
Output Device
− The Sound Card is a type of SOFTWARE.
− All the computers need an Operating System to work.
2048 DDR RAM
− The microphone is an Output Device.
Laser Printer
Storage device
− A group of 1024 kilobytes is a Megabyte
− The CD is an optical Storage Device 11. What is the name of the code used by the computers?

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