The ____________________ distributes electrical power to directly attached devices or their device controllers.

As buffer size increases above ____ bytes, CPU cycle consumption decreases at a linear rate.

512- and 4096-byte blocks are the most common data transfer units for magnetic disks.

Over time, file contents tend to become ____________________ in many nonsequential sectors.

____________________ compression is usually applied only to audio and video data because the human brain tolerates missing audio and video data and can usually “fill in the blanks.”

A PC usually transmits data one bit at a time over a wireless connection, and a laser printer prints an entire page at once.

____ is a generic term for describing secondary storage data transfer units.

When multiple processors occupy a single motherboard, they share primary storage and a single system bus.

The term ____________________ describes the data transfer unit for magnetic disk and optical disc drives.

A ____ is a simple processor attached to a peer-to-peer bus that decides which devices must wait when multiple devices want to become a bus master.