Hardware Essentials

What’s inside

• Which component performs most of the arithmetic and logical operations in a computer?
• Which type of memory loses its contents when the computer is powered off?
• What is the primary purpose of a motherboard?
• Which storage device generally has no moving mechanical parts and uses flash memory?
• The component that supplies electrical power to the computer's internal parts is called the [____].
• A temporary high-speed memory area located close to or inside the CPU is called [____].
• The standard interface commonly used to connect modern internal storage drives is [____].
• A graphics processing unit is commonly abbreviated as [____].