EE380 Assignment 0

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1. 100% Which one of the following four statements about storage devices is false?
   SRAM is a type of volatile memory
   Core is a type of main memory using magnetic storage
   Standard hard disk drives record digital data using changes in magnetic orientation
   Floppy disks make physical contact with the read/write head and other surfaces while spinning
   None of the above statements is false
2. 100% Here's one to look-up in the reference materials: in the late 1970s, what was the most common type of mass storage device for personal computers? Hint: it wasn't a disk; it was used with the Radio Shack TRS-80 and the Apple II, and was even built-into the Commodore PET.
   
3. 100%
   
   Here's another one to look-up in the reference materials: the 4004 (shown above) was Intel's first microprocessor. It was used in which one of the following?
   ENIAC
   Apple II
   ERA 1101
   Busicom calculator
   the original IBM PC
4. 100% Which of the following five terms refers to computer hardware at the highest abstraction level?
   Die
   Gate
   Transistor
   Silicon Ingot
   Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
5. 100% Which one of the following four statements about how computer technology has been changing over the last few decades is false?
   Processors have been getting faster.
   Main memory has been getting faster.
   Power consumption per transistor has been decreasing.
   The complexity of circuitry that fits on a single chip has been increasing.
   All of the above statements are true.
6. 100% Here's yet another bit of history to look up: who is generally credited with finding the first computer bug?
   Bill Gates
   Gordon Moore
   J. Presper Eckert
   John von Neumann
   Grace Murray Hopper
7. 100% Which one of the following four choices is specified as part of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?
   The machine code bit patterns
   The types of gates used to construct the processor
   The number of clock cycles taken to execute each instruction
   The maximum power that can be consumed by the processor
   None of the above are part of the ISA
8. 100% Power consumption is becoming a serious issue. How many watts does a typical desktop PC processor draw?
   Less than 2 watts
   2-20 watts
   20-200 watts
   200-2000 watts
   More than 2000 watts

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