IT Theory Components

1. What does PCIe stand for? (10,9,12,7)
6. What is the name of the component that houses all of the most important components of a computer? (11)
7. What kind of disk is read by a blue ray? (3,3)
12. What Cycle consists of fetch, decode, execute, and store? (7,5)
16. Expand the acronym ROM (4,4,6)
19. What kind of device is a monitor? (5,7,6)

2. Where is the date and time stored? (4,4,5)
3. What circuitry is responsible for managing a specific hardware part of the computer system? (10)
4. What Component consists of 2 main sections called the CU and ALU? (7,10,4)
5. What chip, also known as thee MCH, connects the CPU, RAM, Graphics Card, and southbridge together? (11)
8. What are the very small storage locations on the CPU called? (9)
9. What type of storage is an HDD? (9)
10. Which Level of cache is the fastest? (3)
11. What is the abbreviation of the controller that allows for hardware subsystems to access system memory independently of the CPU? (3)
13. What is the name of the bus that carries commands between the CPU and RAM? (7,3)
14. What is another name for proxy cache? (3,5)
15. Expand the acronym GPU (8,10,4)
17. What kind of card allows for the computer to send graphical information to a video display device? (5,4)
18. What type of memory stores the programs currently in use and the data associated with them? (3)
20. _______ cache improves the time taken to read from a hard disk. (4)