INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSITY

COMPUTER HARDWARE

END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Date of Examination: 16Th, June 2014.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Answer any SIX (6) Questions.

2. Please write as clearly as possible as illegible handwriting cannot be marked.

3. Number the answers to the questions clearly before answering

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 1. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a hard disk drive
(reading, writing, and deleting processes) [10 marks]
2. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a CD ROM drive
(reading, and Burning/writing processes) [10 marks]
3. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a TFT-LCD display
screen [10 marks]
4. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a Laser Printer [10
marks]
5. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a Memory resources
(cashe, DRAM) [10 marks]
6. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a Touch screen [10
marks]
7. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of an I/O transfers (DMA,
Interrupt system [maskable, non-maskable]) [10 marks]
8. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a Motherboard
(components, buses) [10 marks]
9. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of a Central Processing
Unit (CPU) [10 marks]
10. With the help of sketches, explain in details the operation of I/O controllers [10
marks]

THE END OF EXAMINATION

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