Chapter 1 Flashcards
What term refers to the technique of increasing the speed of a processor from the specified value of its manufacturer?
overclocking
What unit is used to measure the amount of resistance to the flow of current in a circuit?
ohms
Which two software interfaces allow adjustment of the CPU voltage?
UEFI
BIOS
What adapter card in a PC would provide data fault tolerance?
RAID
What type of memory is integrated directly into the CPU chip to provide fast access to data?
SRAM
Fill in the blank.
Servers and high-end workstations commonly use
________ memory, which is specialized memory as it has additional circuitry to manage large amounts of RAM.
buffered
Fill in the blank.
A user has a new computer with only a USB port. The user will need a USB to Ethernet ________
to connect to the office wired LAN.
adapter
A customer has requested that a PC be built that will support eSATA. What component should be checked to be sure that this feature is supported?
chipset
A network administrator currently has three servers and needs to add a fourth, but does not have enough room for an additional monitor and keyboard. What device allows the administrator to connect all the servers to a single monitor and keyboard?
KVM switch
A technician looks at a motherboard and sees a 24-pin connector. What component would connect to the motherboard through the use of this 24-pin connector?
power supply
What electrical unit refers to the number of electrons moving through a circuit per second?
current
What type of memory is primarily used as cache memory?
SRAM
What unit of measurement is used to indicate the hard drive speed?
revolutions per minute
What type of connector can be used to connect an internal hard drive to the motherboard?
SATA
A user playing a game on a gaming PC with a standard EIDE 5400 RPM hard drive finds the performance unsatisfactory. What hard drive upgrade would improve performance while providing more reliability and more energy efficiency?
SSD
