Motherboards that have integrated components such as wireless and video capabilities can keep the cost of building a new system down. Discuss why a high-end motherboard might have less or more of these integrated features, especially in the case of gaming motherboards. Start a discussion on the use of encryption for protecting documents and files on a computer, and then have students evaluate whether the benefits of BitLocker encryption with TPM are worth the risks to data in the event of motherboard failure or TPM chip failure.

Aletter or menu command that starts an action when the user presses the designated letter and the alt key together is called what?

Suppose we have a byte addressable computer that has a 32-byte cache with 8 bytes per block. the memory address is 8 bits long. the system accesses memory addresses (in hex) in this exact order: 6e, b9, 17, e0, 4e, 4f, 50, 91, a8, ab, ad, 93, and 94. (a) assuming the cache is direct mapped, what memory addresses will be in cache block 2 after the last address has been accessed? (b) assuming the cache is direct mapped, what is the hit ratio for the entire memory reference sequence given, assuming the cache is initially empty? (c) assuming the cache is 2-way set associative with a lru replacement policy, what is the hit ratio?

Assume that to_the_power_of is a function that expects two int parameters and returns the value of the first parameter raised to the power of the second parameter. write a statement that calls to_the_power_of to compute the value of cube_side raised to the power of 3 and that associates this value with cube_volume.