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6. What does RAM stand for?

  • Random Alternative Memory
  • Read Alternative Memory
  • Random Access Memory
  • Read Access Memory

7. What is stored in RAM when a computer system is in use?

  • The BIOS and any other permanent programs or data
  • Documents, files, webpages or any other data that are loaded by the user
  • The OS (and any files it is using), any programs that are loaded by the user and any data loaded by the user
  • Any software the computer is using

8. What does ROM stand for?

  • Read Only Memory
  • Read Often Memory
  • Random Only Memory
  • Random Offset memory

9. What is firmware?

  • An example of volatile software
  • Software to control hardware
  • An example of volatile hardware
  • Hardware to control software

10. Is RAM volatile or non-volatile?

  • Volatile
  • Non-volatile

11. What does volatile mean?

  • Contents will be lost when the power turns off
  • Contents will not be lost when the power turns off

12. Explain the purpose of ROM in a computer system

  • To store the programs and data needed to run a computer when there is no secondary storage so data is not lost when the power is turned off
  • To store data and programs that the CPU is using while programs are running

13. How could increasing RAM increase what the OS can store?

  • It can store more programs, bigger programs, more data and bigger data
  • It can store more programs, bigger programs, more files and bigger files
  • It can store more data, bigger data, more files and bigger files

14. Is ROM volatile or non-volatile?

  • Non-volatile
  • Volatile

15. Explain why programs do not run directly from secondary storage

  • It is too small to store all the programs the CPU needs to run
  • Secondary storage can be removed from the computer
  • It is too slow for programs to run directly by the CPU
  • It is too expensive

16. Describe how data is actually stored in ROM and RAM

  • Stored as binary numbers with a pattern of switches representing the binary
  • Stored as a pattern of switches representing the binary numbers
  • Stored as binary numbers with a pattern of switches in memory representing the binary numbers
  • Stored as binary numbers with a pattern of switches in memory