INSY 2303 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rending - ✔✔The process of covering a wireframe with surface color and texture
✔✔Ray Tracing - ✔✔The technique for adding light and shadows to a 3-D image
✔✔Instruction Set - ✔✔The collection of instructions that a CPU is designed to process.
✔✔Software - ✔✔sets up a computer to do a specific task.
✔✔Application - ✔✔Computer programs that help users perform a specific task such as
word processing. Also called application programs, applications, or programs.
✔✔Operating - ✔✔The software that controls the computer's use of its hardware
resources, such as memory and disk storage space. Also, called an OS.
✔✔Form - ✔✔The configuration of a computer's system unit; examples include tower,
mini-tower, and cube.
✔✔Mainframe - ✔✔A large, fast, and expensive computer generally used by businesses
or government agencies to provide centralized storage, processing, and management
for large amounts of data.
✔✔Supercomputer - ✔✔The fastest and most expensive type of computer, capable of
processing trillions of instructions per second.
✔✔Server - ✔✔A computer or software on a network that supplies the network with data
and storage.
✔✔CPU - ✔✔The main processing circuitry, or "chip," within a computer that contains
the ALU, control unit, and registers
✔✔ALU - ✔✔(Arithmetic Logic Unit) The part of the CPU that performs arithmetic and
logical operations on the numbers stored in its registers.
✔✔Control Unit - ✔✔The part of the microprocessor that directs and coordinates
processing.
✔✔Clock Speed - ✔✔indicates the speed of the microprocessor clock—a timing device
that sets the pace for executing instructions.
✔✔RAM - ✔✔(random access memory) Computer memory circuitry that holds data,
program instructions, and the operating system while the computer is on.
, ✔✔ROM - ✔✔(read only memory)Refers to one or more integrated circuits that contain
permanent instructions that the computer uses during the boot process.
✔✔Virtual Memory - ✔✔A computer's use of hard disk storage to simulate RAM.
✔✔Multi-Core Processor - ✔✔A microprocessor that contains circuitry for more than
one processing unit.
✔✔Magnetic - ✔✔A technology for recording data onto disks or tape by magnetizing
particles of an oxide-based surface coating.
✔✔Optical - ✔✔• A technology that records data as light and dark spots on a CD, DVD,
or other optical media.
✔✔Solid State - ✔✔A technology that records data and stores it in a microscopic grid of
cells on a nonvolatile, erasable, low-power chip.
✔✔Cloud - ✔✔A storage area that is located on a remote server, usually on the
Internet, rather than on a local storage device
✔✔Volatile vs. Nonvolatile - ✔✔Any electronic component that does not require a
constant supply of power to hold data.
✔✔Durability - ✔✔
✔✔Dependability - ✔✔
✔✔Capacity - ✔✔
✔✔Serial - ✔✔one instruction at a time the processor must complete all steps in the
instruction cycle before it begins to execute the next instruction.
✔✔Pipelining - ✔✔When a processor begins to execute an instruction before it
completes the previous instruction
✔✔Parallel Processing - ✔✔executes more than one instruction at a time.
✔✔Communications Network - ✔✔A collection of devices used to originate, send, route,
and receive data transmissions.
✔✔Communications Channel Any - ✔✔Any pathway between the sender and receiver;
channel may refer to a physical medium or a frequency.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rending - ✔✔The process of covering a wireframe with surface color and texture
✔✔Ray Tracing - ✔✔The technique for adding light and shadows to a 3-D image
✔✔Instruction Set - ✔✔The collection of instructions that a CPU is designed to process.
✔✔Software - ✔✔sets up a computer to do a specific task.
✔✔Application - ✔✔Computer programs that help users perform a specific task such as
word processing. Also called application programs, applications, or programs.
✔✔Operating - ✔✔The software that controls the computer's use of its hardware
resources, such as memory and disk storage space. Also, called an OS.
✔✔Form - ✔✔The configuration of a computer's system unit; examples include tower,
mini-tower, and cube.
✔✔Mainframe - ✔✔A large, fast, and expensive computer generally used by businesses
or government agencies to provide centralized storage, processing, and management
for large amounts of data.
✔✔Supercomputer - ✔✔The fastest and most expensive type of computer, capable of
processing trillions of instructions per second.
✔✔Server - ✔✔A computer or software on a network that supplies the network with data
and storage.
✔✔CPU - ✔✔The main processing circuitry, or "chip," within a computer that contains
the ALU, control unit, and registers
✔✔ALU - ✔✔(Arithmetic Logic Unit) The part of the CPU that performs arithmetic and
logical operations on the numbers stored in its registers.
✔✔Control Unit - ✔✔The part of the microprocessor that directs and coordinates
processing.
✔✔Clock Speed - ✔✔indicates the speed of the microprocessor clock—a timing device
that sets the pace for executing instructions.
✔✔RAM - ✔✔(random access memory) Computer memory circuitry that holds data,
program instructions, and the operating system while the computer is on.
, ✔✔ROM - ✔✔(read only memory)Refers to one or more integrated circuits that contain
permanent instructions that the computer uses during the boot process.
✔✔Virtual Memory - ✔✔A computer's use of hard disk storage to simulate RAM.
✔✔Multi-Core Processor - ✔✔A microprocessor that contains circuitry for more than
one processing unit.
✔✔Magnetic - ✔✔A technology for recording data onto disks or tape by magnetizing
particles of an oxide-based surface coating.
✔✔Optical - ✔✔• A technology that records data as light and dark spots on a CD, DVD,
or other optical media.
✔✔Solid State - ✔✔A technology that records data and stores it in a microscopic grid of
cells on a nonvolatile, erasable, low-power chip.
✔✔Cloud - ✔✔A storage area that is located on a remote server, usually on the
Internet, rather than on a local storage device
✔✔Volatile vs. Nonvolatile - ✔✔Any electronic component that does not require a
constant supply of power to hold data.
✔✔Durability - ✔✔
✔✔Dependability - ✔✔
✔✔Capacity - ✔✔
✔✔Serial - ✔✔one instruction at a time the processor must complete all steps in the
instruction cycle before it begins to execute the next instruction.
✔✔Pipelining - ✔✔When a processor begins to execute an instruction before it
completes the previous instruction
✔✔Parallel Processing - ✔✔executes more than one instruction at a time.
✔✔Communications Network - ✔✔A collection of devices used to originate, send, route,
and receive data transmissions.
✔✔Communications Channel Any - ✔✔Any pathway between the sender and receiver;
channel may refer to a physical medium or a frequency.
