A small area of memory, ____, contains instructions for the system to perform a self-test as it powers up and to load the operating system from hard drive storage into main memory.
A) read-only memory
B) the control unit
C) random access memory
D) the ALU

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Read-only memory (ROM) contains the firmware or BIOS that a computer system uses to perform a power-on self-test (POST) and to load the operating system into the main memory (RAM) from the hard drive during the boot process.

A Small Area of Memory, ____, Contains Instructions for the System