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7.  Locking the computer is the same as shutting it down.                             ....................

                     8.  A printer creates a soft copy of the data displayed on the paper.                 ....................



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                 A.  Short answer type questions.

                     1.  What is the purpose of secondary memory?

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                     2.  What happens during the "Processing" step of the Input-Process-Output (IPO) cycle?

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                     3.  What does the Control Unit (CU) in the CPU do?
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                     4.  What is a computer?

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                     5.  What is a printer?
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                     6.  What is the function of the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) in a computer?

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                     7.  Categorise the following as Input/Process/Storage devices:


                         Printer
                         Plotter
                         Hard Disk

                         Microphone
                         Speakers

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                     8.  What is the difference between RAM and ROM in primary memory?
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