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Question 1

Motherboards connect everything, Form factors include?

Answer 1

ATX(Most common)

Micro ATX and ITX

Question 2

Types of expansion Buses include?

Answer 2

PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI

Question 3

Intel chipsets connect to the CPU by

Answer 3

DMI or QPI

Question 4

AMD CPU connects to the chipset by

Answer 4

Hyper Transport

Question 5

BIOS/UEFI identifies, tests and initializes which components?

Answer 5

Hard Drive, Optical Disk, USB Flash drive, Network, using PXE.

Question 6

CMOS stores what?

Answer 6

time/date and password

Question 7

What powers a CMOS?

Answer 7

CR2032 lithium battery

Question 8

What are things you can configure on your BIOS/UEFI?

Answer 8

Time/Date, Boot Order, Passwords,Power Management, WOL, Monitoring, Clock and Bus speed, Virtualization Support, Enable/Disable Devices, Diagnostics, Security, Intrusion Detection.

Question 9

To update your BIOS/UEFI you must?

Answer 9

Flash it with new Firmware.