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Hardware100

Which two characteristic are determined by the chip set on a motherboard?

1. Amount of memory that can be installed2. Operating system compatibility3. Type of connectors that will be on the

motherboard4. Maximum number of peripherals

A: What is Options 1 & 3

Hardware 200

A: What is headphones, monitor, and printer?

What three device are considered output devices ?1. Fingerprint scanner2. Headphones3. Keyboard4. Monitor5. Mouse6. Printer

Hardware 300

A: What is biometric authentication device, digital camera?

Which two are input devices?1. Biometric authentication device2. Printer3. Digital camera4. Projector5. Speakers

Hardware 400

A: What is RISC?

Which CPU architecture uses a small set of instructions that are designed to be executed rapidly?

1. CISC2. RAID3. RISC4. RISK5. SCSI

Hardware 500

A: What is CPU?

What is considered the brain of the computer?1. Chipset2. Motherboard3. CPU4. BIOS

Connector/Cables100

A: What is Serial?

Which type of cable is shown?1. FireWire2. Parallel3. Serial4. USB

Connector/Cables200

A: What is 15ft (4.5m)?

What is the maximum length of the cable shown, which is commonly used for connecting a computer with a printer?

1. 15 ft (4.5m)2. 20 ft (6m)3. 27 ft (8m)4. 30 ft (9m)

Connector/Cables300

A: What is options 3 & 5 ?

Which two characteristics describe a SCSI cable?1. Supports a maximum length of 328ft (100m)2. Uses an 9P8C connector type3. Can connect up to 15 devices4. Can only connect two devices in a master/slave

relationship5. May use 25-pin, 50-pin, or 68-pin connectors

Connector/Cables400

A: What is 4-pin, 6-pin, 9-pin?

What are the three connector types for FireWire?1. 2-pin2. 4-pin3. 6-pin4. 8-pin5. 9-pin6. 15-pin

Connector/Cables500

A: What is option 4?

Which important feature is offered by the USB standard?1.Single USB connection can support up to 255 separate devices2.Offers rates of 580 Mb/sec in low-speed mode3.Allows up to 920 Mb/sec in the 2.0 version4.Can supply power from the computer to devices

Memory100

A: What is a ROM?

Which type of memory stores basic information for booting the computer and loading the operating system?

1. DRAM2. RAM3. ROM4. SRAM

Memory200

A: What is SRAM?

Which type of memory is primarily used as Cache memory?

1. DRAM2. RAM3. ROM4. SRAM

Memory300

A: What is EEPROM?

Which type of ROM can be reprogrammed with software while it is still physically installed in the computer?

1. EEPROM2. EPROM3. PROM4. ROM

Memory400

A: What is DMA- direct memory access?

What allows a device to bypass interaction with the CPU and directly store and retrieve information from memory?

1. EEPROM2. DMA3. RAM4. PROM

Memory500

A: What is RAM?

Which memory is volatile memory?1. ROM2. RAM3. DRAM4. SRAM

Acronyms100

A: What is Random Access Memory?

RAM

Acronyms 200

A: What is Small Computer System Interface?

SCSI

Acronyms 300

A: What is Peripheral Component Interconnector?

PCI

Acronyms 400

A: What is Integrated Drive Electronics?

IDE

Acronyms 500

A: What is Graphical User Interface?

GUI

Potpourri 100

A: What is current?

What is the flow of electrons in a conductor?1. Voltage2. Current3. Power4. Resistance

Potpourri 200

A: What is power supply ?

What component converts A/C power coming from the wall outlet into D/C power?

1. Electronic capacitors2. Power supply3. Keyed connectors4. Molex connector

Potpourri 300

A: What is access to RAM; access to the video card (2& 4)?

Which two activities are normally controlled by the Northbridge part of the chip set?1.Communication between the CPU & the I/O ports2.Access to the RAM3.Communication between the CPU & the hard drive4.Access to the video card5.Communication between the CPU & the sound card

Potpourri 400

A: What is IRQs?

Which type of computer resources are direct lines to the processor that interrupt the CPU activities?

1. DMAs2. I/O addresses3. IRQs4. Memory addresses

Potpourri 500

A: What is a Option 2?

What is hyper threading as it pertains to the CPU?1.The power of a CPU is measured by the speed and the amount of data that it can process2.The CPU has multiple pieces of code being executed simultaneously on each pipeline.3.The amount of data that a CPU can process at the one time depends on the size of the processor data bus4.Technique used to make a processor work at a faster speed than its original specification.

Double Jeopardy

A: What is Buses?

What are the electrical pathways on the motherboard called?

1. Form factors2. Chip sets3. Sockets4. Buses

Double Jeopardy

Subject: Motherboard