Assignment 6

Question 1

AGP

Answer 1

Accelerated Graphics Port. It is a type of expansion slot that has a bus width of 66-133 bits and a speed of 266-533MB/ps.

Question 2

Drive speed

Answer 2

a measurement for the rate of hard drives and disk drives. This determines the time it takes a drive to find the right track, and get to the right place on the track.

Question 3

IDE

Answer 3

Integrated Drive Electronics. An industry standard for hard disk drives.

Question 4

EIDE

Answer 4

Enhanced IDE; IDE for hard drives larger than 504MB and CD ROMs.

Question 5

Drive bay

Answer 5

an open area inside the system unit. A drive bay would be used for installing an extra drive.

Question 6

Access time

Answer 6

what drive speed measures; the time a drive takes to find and get on to the right place of the right track, in response to requested data.

Question 7

PCI

Answer 7

Peripheral Component Interconnect. A type of expansion slot developed since 1991, also used by the Pentium CPU design.

Question 8

Port

Answer 8

used to connect any attached device to the motherboard. Usually appears as a hole in front or on the back of a computer.

Question 9

SCSI

Answer 9

a special type of parallel port; stands for Small Computer System Interface. A SCSI port can allow 7-15 different devices to be attached to a single port.

Question 10

Bus speed

Answer 10

the rate of how much data can be transferred by the bus. Bus speed has increased greatly over time in the past few years. Larger bus speed improves the quality of the bus.

Question 11

Serial

Answer 11

serial devices can only send 1 bit at a time. They are still used in modern computer technology. Serial cables can be up to 1000 feet long.

Question 12

Bus width

Answer 12

measures how much data can be transferred at a time. Like bus speed, bus width has also increased greatly over the past few years. Larger bus width could also improve the quality of the bus.

Question 13

EISA

Answer 13

Extended Industry Standard Architecture; a type of expansion slot developed in the late 1980’s. It has a bus width of 16 bits and a speed of 32 MB/ps.

Question 14

Parallel

Answer 14

a relatively advanced communication as to serial. Although unlike serial, cables of parallel ports must be kept no more than 50 feet to avoid transmission errors.

Question 15

Expansion slot

Answer 15

an empty socket inside the computer which allows the user to add components to the system unit. These components can be a controller card, adaptor card, or an interface card.