2. A bit is the smallest unit of data a digital computer can recognize and is always represented by a 1.
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3. Unicode is limited to only the Latin alphabet used with the English language.
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4. Most mice today are mechanical mice and have a ball exposed on the bottom surface of the mouse to control the pointer movement.
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5. Touch screens are used in consumer kiosk and other point-of-sale (POS) systems, and they are useful for on-the-job applications where it might be impractical to use a keyboard or mouse.
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6. The kind of input device shown in the accompanying figure is popular but is seldom used by individuals to input photographs and other personal documents into a computer.
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7. A digital camera is usually designated either as a still camera or a video camera.
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8. You do not need to have the mobile deposit application on your mobile phone in order to make a remote deposit via your mobile phone.
10. RAM connects all components of the computer system and is the PC’s main circuit board shown in the accompanying figure.
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11. CPU manufacturers are focusing on single-core CPUs as a way to increase the amount of processing that a CPU (like the one in the accompanying figure) can do in a given time period.
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12. Registers are used by a CPU like the one in the accompanying figure to temporarily store data and intermediary results during processing.
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13. A higher CPU clock speed means that more instructions can be processed per second than the same CPU with a lower CPU clock speed.
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14. Data in RAM is kept when the program using that data is closed.
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15. Display devices today are typically color displays, which form colors by mixing combinations of four colors—red, green, blue, and white.
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16. Laser printers print one entire page at a time.
18. Flash memory storage systems represent data using electrons.
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19. For security purposes, both internal and external hard drives today are increasingly coming with built-in encryption that automatically encrypts all data stored on the hard drive and protects access to the hard drive with a secure password.
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20. Hybrid hard drives include both flash memory and a magnetic hard drive.