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Gail uses digital devices for work.
Describe how the size of RAM can impact the user experience.
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Gail uses digital devices for work.
Describe how the size of RAM can impact the user experience.
Camille uses digital devices for work.
Camille’s laptop uses secondary storage.
State one type of storage media that stores data as electrical charges.
Camille’s laptop uses memory.
Which one of these statements is true?
Choose your answer
ROM is never used in laptops
ROM always stores more instructions than RAM
ROM contains values that can be changed by applications
ROM is used to store startup files
Give one drawback of increasing the size of random access memory
Joe’s computer has 8GiB of RAM.
Each recording uses 300MiB of RAM.
Which one of these is a benefit to Joe of increasing RAM?
Choose your answer
He does not have to save recordings as frequently
Increased processor speed
Recordings will be higher quality
There is less need to back up recordings
Which one of these does the ‘A’ stand for in RAM?
Choose your answer
Access
All
Array
Available
State the reason why RAM and ROM are called ‘Random’.