Explore yourself solved:
Q
1: Ask your teacher to help you locate any
two device drivers installed on your computer.
Ans:
A device driver is a program that
controls the working of a particular device that is attached to the computer
system.
There
are many device drivers installed on personal computers. To view this we need
to follow the following steps:
- ·
Through GUI/Menus
Step
1: Open the device manager. Just type “device manager” in the window search. Then
click on it.
Step
2: In Device Manager, click on the View menu and select the “Devices by driver
option”.
Step
3: Now you can able to see the entire device driver installed in your computer.
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Through
command prompt
Step
1: First type cmd in the start menu.
Step
2: Go to the system32 directory and type the command “Driverquery”
Step
3: The command will display all the available drivers on your PC.
Common device drivers are:
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Computer Printers
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Network cards
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Sound cards
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Modems
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Graphic cards
etc.
Q
2: Write any two system software and two application software installed on your
computer.
Ans:
System
software :
Operating
system: Window 8.1, 10 whatever in your PC.
Device
drivers: Like computer printers, sound cards or network card,s etc.,
Application
Software :
Microsoft
Office: MS Word, MS Excel, MS power-point, etc.
Windows
media player, VLC media player, etc.,
Q 3: Which microprocessor does your personal
computer have? Which generation does it belong to?
Ans:
In a computer system
microprocessor is also known as central processing unit. It is a main chip in
the computer system which receive and process instruction. To check the microprocessor
brand and model installed in a computer follow below mentioned steps:
Step
1: Open starts and search for task manager
Step
2: Click on the performance tab
Step
3: Click on CPU
Step
4: Get the processor information in the top right-hand corner.
Finding
the generation of the processor:
If
you have an Intel core processor the generation is the first number after
i9,i7,i5,i6 so on.,
Find
below some the examples of the processors:
13th
Gen processor example: Intel Core
Processor i7-13700K is 13th Gen because 13 is given right after the
i7.
12th
Gen processor example: Intel Core
Processor i9-12700K is 12th Gen because 12 is given right after the
i7.
6th Gen processor example: Intel Core Processor i5-6700K is 6th Gen because 6 is given right after the i5.
Q
4: What is the clock speed of your microprocessor?
Ans:
Clock speed is a mechanism to
check the speed of a microprocessor. In general higher clock, speed refers to a
faster CPU. The clock speed measures the number of cycle the processor executes per
second. It is measured in GHz (gigahertz).
Q
5: Name any two devices in your school or home that have a microcontroller.
Ans: Various devices are available in our school or home that have microcontrollers like LCD/Smart TV, Digital board, Light sensing & controlling devices like Fans, AC, and lights.
Q
6: Check the size of RAM and HDD or a computer in your school. Make a table and
write their size in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes.
Ans:
On my computer, right-click and
go to properties you will get the size of RAM. In my case, I have 3.00 GB RAM.
For
HDD size go to the computer management. For this, click on the start button and
search computer management. You will able to see the disk space available
and the total HDD size of your system. In my case, I have 298 GB usable disk size.
Now,
conversion-
RAM:
3GB
= 3*103=3072 MB [1024=103]
= 3072*103=3145728 KB
=
3145728*103 = 3221225472e9 byte
HDD:
298 GB =(298*103) MB = (298*106) KB = (298*10243) bytes
Q
7: List all secondary storage devices available at your school or home.
Ans:
Here, In my case, I have –
Pen
Drives
CD/DVDs
Old
Floppy Disks(Unused and unserviceable)
Hard
Disks etc.
Q
8: Which operating system is installed on your computer at home or school?
Ans:
In my case, we have Microsoft
Windows 10 on all machines, but in some of the old machines Microsoft Windows 7
is also available.
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