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Term

Using the ____ technology, the Intel processor,

chipset, and wireless network adapter are all

interconnected as a unit, which improves laptop

performance.

Definition

Centrino

Term

For an older motherboard, instead of screws

you’ll see ____ that keep the board from resting

directly on the bottom of the computer case.

Definition

spacers

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Term

A(n) ____ boot involves turning on the power

with the on/off switch.

Definition

hard

Term

A ____ is a heat sink carrying an electrical

charge that causes it to act as an electrical

thermal transfer device.

Definition

peltier

Term

The current set of standards that is used by

BIOS, hardware, and the OS to manage power is

____.

Definition

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

Term

On the motherboard, the ____ controls power to

the motherboard and must be connected for the

PC to power up.

Definition

Power SW

Term

Processor core frequency is measured in ____.

Definition

gigahertz

Term Definition

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The ____ or system timer is dedicated to timing

the activities of the chips on the motherboard.system clock

Term

Most input/output devices communicate with

components inside the computer case through a

wireless connection or through cables attached

to the case at a connection called a(n) ____.

Definition

port

Term

A(n) ____ might solve the problem of

intermittent errors caused by noise in the power

line to the PC.

Definition

line conditioner

Term

The printer produces output on paper, often

called ____ copy

Definition

hard

Term

The slower end of the hub in the Intel i800

chipsets, called the ____, contains the I/O

controller hub.

Definition

South Bridge

Term

Installing more than one processor on a

motherboard creates a ____.

Definition

multiprocessor platform

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Term

A ____ bus port can be used by many different

input/output devices, such as keyboards,

printers, scanners, and digital cameras.

Definition

universal serial

Term

The most reliable way to restore settings is to

keep a written record of all the changes you

make to ____.

Definition

CMOS RAM

Term

The ____ form factor was designed by Intel in

2003 for flexibility and can be used by

everything from large tower systems to those

ultrasmall-systems that sit under a monitor.

Definition

BTX

Term

The peltier’s top surface can be as cool as ____

degrees F.

Definition

45

Term

Later sockets used a ____, with pins staggered

over the socket to squeeze more pins into a

small space.

Definition

staggered pin grid array

Term Definition

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Term

The ____ provides backup power in the event

that the AC fails completely.

Definition

uninterruptible power supply

Term

Throughput is sometimes called ____.

Definition

bandwidth

Term

The ____ menu in BIOS setup allows you to

configure automatic power-saving features for

your system, such as suspend mode or a sleep

state.

Definition

power

Term

A ____ is the most complicated component in a

computer.

Definition

motherboard

Term

Memory on the processor die is called ____

cache.

Definition

Level 1

Term

Access to a computer can be controlled using a

Definition

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Access to a computer can be controlled using a

____ password.startup

Term

In the world of computers, the term ____ refers

to the computer’s physical components, such as

the monitor, keyboard, motherboard, and hard

drive.

Definition

hardware

Term

Motherboards that support PCI Express and

have the 24-pin P1 connector are sometimes

called ____ boards.

Definition

Enhanced ATX

Term

Data and instructions are stored on special ROM

(read-only memory) chips on the board and are

called the ____.

Definition

BIOS

Term

Motherboard settings are stored in a small

amount of RAM located on the firmware chip and

are called ____.

Definition

CMOS RAM

Term

A(n) ____ is a general-purpose tool that can

measure several characteristics of electricity in

a variety of devices.

Definition

multimeter

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Term

The first ATX power supplies and motherboards

used a single power connector called the ____

connector that had 20 pins.

Definition

P1

Term

The slower end of the hub in the Intel i800

chipsets, called the ____, contains the I/O

controller hub.

Definition

South Bridge

Term

The cooler sits on top of the processor and

consists of a fan and a heat ____, which are fins

that draw heat away from the processor.

Definition

sink

Term

The temperature inside the case should not

exceed ____ degrees C.

Definition

38

Term

Primary storage is provided by devices called

memory or ____ located on the motherboard and

on some adapter cards.

Definition

RAM

Term Definition

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The ____ and the chipset determine which

processors a board can support.

processor socket

Term

A ____ of the house current might cause

symptoms of electrical power problems.

Definition

brownout

Term

The motherboard, like all other components

inside the computer case, should be ____ the

chassis

Definition

grounded to

Term

Some video cards use a(n) ____ that helps to

hold the card securely in the slot.

Definition

latch

Term

A ____ is an electronic device that can hold an

electrical charge for a period of time and can

smooth the uneven flow of electricity through a

circuit

Definition

capacitor

Term

____ is running a processor, motherboard, or

video card at a higher frequency than the

Definition

Overclocking

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manufacturer recommends and is not

considered a best practice.

Overclocking

Term

A(n) ____ is a set of rule and standards that any

two entities use for communication.

Definition

protocol

Term

To perform a computing task, software uses

hardware for four basic functions: ____.

Definition

input, processing, storage, and output

Term

In the world of computers, the term ____ refers

to the computer’s physical components, such as

the monitor, keyboard, motherboard, and hard

drive.

Definition

hardware

Term

A ____ case sits upright on the floor or a desk

and can be as high as two feet and has room for

several drives.

Definition

tower

Term

Intel’s current families of processors for the

desktop include four major groups: ____.

Definition

the Core, the Pentium, the Celeron, and the

Atom families

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Term

A(n) ____ drive is considered standard

equipment on most computer systems today

because most software is distributed on CDs or

DVDs.

Definition

optical

Term

When you hear ____ during post, you know that

a keyboard controller failed or video controller

failed.

Definition

Three beeps followed by three, four, or five

beeps

Term

Most ____ drives consist of a sealed case

containing platters or disks that rotate at a high

speed.

Definition

hard

Term

Data and instructions are stored on special ROM

(read-only memory) chips on the board and are

called the ____.

Definition

BIOS

Term

Most likely when you first install a hard drive or

an operating system, you will want to have the

BIOS attempt to first boot from a ____.

Definition

CD

Term Definition

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The ____ card provides a port for a network

cable to connect the PC to a network.network

Term

A 1 or 0 in this system is called a ____.

Definition

bit

Term

For Windows XP, Ntldr is responsible for loading

the OS, and is, therefore, called the ____.

Definition

boot loader program

Term

Some cases have ____, also called spacers,

which are round plastic or metal pegs that

separate the motherboard from the case, so that

components on the back of the motherboard do

not touch the case.

Definition

standoff

Term

The fast end of hub in the Intel i800 series

chipsets, which contains the graphics and

memory controller, connects to the system bus

and is called the hub’s ____.

Definition

North Bridge

Term

The ____ have a lever that is used to lift the

processor up and out of the socket.

Definition

zero insertion force sockets

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Term

____ hold counters, data, instructions, and

addresses that the ALU is currently processing.

Definition

Registers

Term

Sometimes documentation marks pin 1 as a ____

pin in the diagram, rather than round like the

other pins.

Definition

square

Term

Intel and AMD both recommend a ____ air guide

as part of the case design.

Definition

chassis

Term

If a power-on password has been forgotten, you

can use the BIOS ____ to reset the password.

Definition

jumper group

Term

When you hear ____ during post, you know that

you have a problem with serial or parallel ports

or system timer, which probably means the

motherboard must be replaced

Definition

Four beeps followed by two, three, or four

beeps

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Term

A system might have up to ____ types of ribbon

cables.

Definition

three

Term

The ____ card, also called a graphics card,

provides one or more ports for a monitor.

Definition

video

Term

Memory in the processor package, but not on

the processor die, is called ____ cache.

Definition

Level 2

Term

A device that is not installed directly on the

motherboard is called a(n) ____ device.

Definition

peripheral

Term

The ____ is a measure of resistance to

electricity.

Definition

ohm

Term Definition

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Access to a computer can be controlled using a

____ password.startup

Term

____ connections inside the computer case can

cause a system to appear dead or reboot itself.

Definition

Loose

Term

One ____ is the work or energy required to

produce one watt of power in one second.

Definition

joule

Term

____ buses have been improved several times;

there are currently three major categories and

within each category, several variations of the

bus.

Definition

PCI

Term

USB ____ drives are compact, easy to use, and

currently hold up to 64 GB of data.

Definition

flash

Term

Everything in a computer is ____.

Definition

binary

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Term

Older hard drives use a(n) ____-conductor IDE

ribbon cable.

Definition

80

Term

The most popular method of cooling

overclocked processors is a(n) ____.

Definition

liquid cooling system

Term

With any installation, remember the importance

of using a ground strap (ground bracelet) to

ground yourself when working inside a

computer case to protect components against

____.

Definition

ESD

Term

Intel’s ____ allows each logical processor within

the processor package to handle an individual

thread in parallel with other threads being

handled by other processors within the

package.

Definition

Hyper-Threading

Term

The peltier’s top surface can be as hot as ____

degrees F.

Definition

500

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Term

The process of upgrading or refreshing the

ROM BIOS chip is called ____ BIOS.

Definition

flashing

Term

The ____ form factor is a major variation of ATX

and addresses some technologies that have

emerged since the original development of ATX.

Definition

MicroATX

Term

At the beginning of the boot drive (usually drive

C) is the OS ____ record.

Definition

boot

Term

The CMOS battery failure can be reported by

startup BIOS during the ____.

Definition

POST

Term

Earlier Pentiums used a ____ socket, with pins

aligned in uniform rows around the socket.

Definition

pin grid array

Term Definition

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Permanent storage is sometimes called secondary storage

Term

A ____ color or stripe down one side of a cable

marks this side of the cable as pin 1.

Definition

red

Term

A ____ drive has one, two, or more platters, or

disks, that stack together and spin in unison

inside a sealed metal housing that contains

firmware to control reading and writing data to

the drive and to communicate with the

motherboard.

Definition

magnetic hard

Term

A drive ____ is a duplication of everything

written to a hard drive.

Definition

image

Term

The first sector on the disk, called the boot

sector or ____ record, contains the information

about how the disk is organized and the file

system used.

Definition

boot

Term

To find out how many pages a printer has

printed so that you know if you need to do the

maintenance, you need to have the printer give

you the ____ count since the last maintenance.

Definition

page

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Term

The ____ assignments refer to the system

resources a parallel port will use to manage a

print job.

Definition

LPT

Term

Each side, or surface, of one hard drive platter

is called a ____.

Definition

head

Term

A mouse, graphics tablet, or other input device

is likely to use a(n) ____ port.

Definition

USB

Term

In Windows XP, ____ mode is similar to Vista

sleep mode and corresponds to ACPI S3 mode.

Definition

standby

Term

If symbols or other special characters don’t print

correctly on a laser printer, try using ____

printing rather than asking the printer to

interpret the characters.

Definition

binary

Term Definition

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Term

To keep boot sector viruses at bay, in ____ you

can disable the ability to write to the boot sector

of the hard drive.

Definition

BIOS setup

Term

____ from cigarettes can accumulate on fans,

causing them to jam, which in turn will cause the

system to overheat.

Definition

Tar

Term

The top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic

hard drive have a(n) ____ that moves across the

disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle.

Definition

read/write head

Term

Problems with a device can sometimes be

solved by updating the ____ or firmware.

Definition

device drivers

Term

Proper ____ is essential to keeping a system

cool.

Definition

air circulation

Term

With ____, you can connect and disconnect a

Definition

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With ____, you can connect and disconnect a

drive while the system is running.hot-swapping

Term

A printer ____ page generally prints some text,

some graphics, and some information about the

printer, such as the printer resolution and how

much memory is installed.

Definition

test

Term

A(n) ____ gets its name because it has

independent pins on opposite sides of the

module.

Definition

DIMM

Term

A MicroDIMM that contains SDRAM has ____

pins.

Definition

144

Term

Devices and their device drivers are managed

using ____.

Definition

Device Manager

Term

You can adjust the way the touch pad or works

on a laptop using the ____ box.

Definition

Mouse Properties

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Term

Return ____ to the manufacturer or dealer to be

recycled.

Definition

Laser printer toner cartridges

Term

To substitute an internal device with an external

device, first go into ____ setup and disable the

internal device.

Definition

BIOS

Term

To find out how many pages a printer has

printed so that you know if you need to do the

maintenance, you need to have the printer give

you the ____ count since the last maintenance.

Definition

page

Term

Good ____ helps you take what you learned into

the next troubleshooting situation, train others,

develop effective preventive maintenance

plans, and satisfy any audits or customer or

employer queries about your work.

Definition

documentation

Term

Higher-quality memory modules have ____

installed to reduce heat and help the module

last longer.

Definition

heat sinks

Term Definition

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For laptops, you can adjust the brightness of the

display using ____ keys.function

Term

When installing the RIMM, ____ on the edge of

the RIMM module will help you orient it correctly

in the socket.

Definition

notches

Term

A ____ device is an input device that inputs

biological data about a person, which can be

input data to identify a person’s fingerprints,

handprints, face, voice, eye, and handwritten

signature.

Definition

biometric

Term

A ____ plug is a tool used to test a serial,

parallel, USB, network, or other port.

Definition

loop-back

Term

External ____ is up to six times faster than USB

or FireWire.

Definition

SATA

Term

____ printers use wax-based ink that is heated

by heat pins that melt the ink onto paper. The

Definition

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by heat pins that melt the ink onto paper. The

print head containing these heat pins is as wide

as the paper.

Thermal

Term

The ____ was designed in part to protect

software copyrights by requiring that only legally

obtained copies of software be used.

Definition

Federal Copyright Act of 1976

Term

To know the IP address of a network printer,

direct the printer to print a ____ page.

Definition

configuration

Term

A Rambus memory module is called a(n) ____.

Definition

RIMM

Term

If the number of bits is not an odd number for

odd parity or an even number for even parity, a

____ error occurs.

Definition

parity

Term

To upgrade memory means to add more ____ to

a computer.

Definition

RAM

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Term

Most notebook manufacturers provide ____

software that can help you test components to

determine which component needs replacing.

Definition

diagnostic

Term

____ transfers data directly from the drive to

memory without involving the CPU.

Definition

DMA

Term

Several print jobs can accumulate in the queue,

which you can view in the Vista Printers window

or the XP Printers and Faxes window in a

process called ____.

Definition

spooling

Term

As you solve computer problems, always keep in

mind that you don’t want to make things worse,

so you should use the ____ invasive solution.

Definition

least

Term

When someone purchases software from a

software vendor, that person has only

purchased a ____ for the software, which is the

right to use it.

Definition

license

Term Definition

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If you want to recover lost data on a hard drive,

don’t ____ the drive.write anything to

Term

Most CRT monitors today are designed to

discharge after sitting unplugged for ____

minutes.

Definition

60

Term

The brightness is a function of the ____

component of the LCD panel.

Definition

backlight

Term

In ____ sleep, all work is saved to the hard

drive, but the system still maintains a trickle of

power.

Definition

hybrid

Term

SIMMs are rated by speed, measured in ____.

Definition

nanoseconds

Term

A serial port is provided by the motherboard or

might be provided by an adapter card called a(n)

____ card.

Definition

I/O Controller

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____ card.

Term

IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks use a

unique and popular pointing device embedded

in the keyboard called a ____ or point stick.

Definition

TrackPoint

Term

The total number of ____ on the drive

determines the drive capacity.

Definition

sectors

Term

Check ____ for recorded events that have to do

with the printer or the port it is using.

Definition

Event Viewer

Term

Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid

drive is called ____.

Definition

ReadyDrive

Term

RAM is divided into two categories, ____.

Definition

DRAM and SRAM

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Term

Manufacturers of high-end printers provide

____ kits, which include specific printer

components, step-by-step instructions for

performing maintenance, and any special tools

or equipment you need to do maintenance.

Definition

printer maintenance

Term

____ are intended to legally protect the

intellectual property rights of organizations or

individuals to creative works, which include

books, images, and software.

Definition

Copyrights

Term

In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent

____ errors.

Definition

General Protection Fault

Term

A notebook drive is ____ inches wide.

Definition

2.5

Term

RAM on motherboards today is stored on ____.

Definition

DIMMs

Term Definition

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In a laser printer, the fuser should last for about

____ pages.45,000

Term

A(n) ____ is about the size of a credit card, but

thicker.

Definition

PC card

Term

A laser printer can produce better-quality

printouts than a dot matrix printer, even when

printing at the same dpi, because it can vary the

size of the dots it prints, creating a sharp, clear

image using a technology called ____.

Definition

REt

Term

____ systems and peripherals have the U.S.

Green Star, indicating that they satisfy certain

energy-conserving standards of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Definition

Energy Star

Term

To find out what to do if you are accidentally

exposed to a dangerous solution, look on the

instructions printed on the can or check out the

material ____ sheet.

Definition

safety data

Term

To keep boot sector viruses at bay, in ____ you

can disable the ability to write to the boot sector

of the hard drive.

Definition

BIOS setup

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Term

DIMMs intended to be used in servers must be

extremely reliable and use an error-checking

technology called ____.

Definition

ECC

Term

When you first purchase a notebook, make sure

you have a ____ CD containing the installed OS

so you can recover from a failed hard drive.

Definition

recovery

Term

Mini PCI Express slots have ____ pins on the

edge connector.

Definition

52

Term

____ is a standard for communication between a

subsystem of peripheral devices and the system

bus.

Definition

SCSI

Term

A ____ station provides the same functions as a

port replicator, but provides additional slots for

adding secondary storage devices and

expansion cards.

Definition

docking

Term Definition

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Term

Printer ____ is updated by replacing the

printer’s DIMM that contains the code or by

downloading the update from the

manufacturer’s Web site.

Definition

firmware

Term

Chips sometimes loosen because of

temperature changes; this condition is called

____.

Definition

chip creep

Term

If you are mounting a hard drive into a bay that is

too large, a ____ kit can help you securely fit the

drive into the bay.

Definition

universal bay

Term

A technology that configures two or more hard

drives to work together as an array of drives is

called ____.

Definition

RAID

Term

IEEE 1394 uses ____ data transfer, meaning that

data is transferred continuously without breaks.

Definition

isochronous

Term Definition

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In the table found in the motherboard manual, a

chip on a RIMM module is called a ____.component

Term

Recent statistics show that more than ____% of

personal computers purchased today are

notebook computers.

Definition

50

Term

Do not use less than ____-LB paper in any type

of printer, unless the printer documentation

specifically says that a lower weight is

satisfactory.

Definition

20