Chapter 10

Question 1

Wired Network

Answer 1

Ethernet port-RJ-45
Network Interface Card-NIC

Question 2

Wireless Network

Answer 2

Wi-fi radio networking
Wireless access points

Question 3

Motherboard Components

Answer 3

-CPU socket
-Memory slots
-Disk drive connectors
-I/O ports
-Adapter card slots

Question 4

Intel CPU brands

Answer 4

Core
Pentium
Celeron
Atom
Xeon

Question 5

AMD CPU brands

Answer 5

Legacy
Zen
Ryzen
Epyc

Question 6

ARM CPU

Answer 6

ARM (advanced RISC Machine) micro architecture
-Widely used on smartphones and tablets
-ARM don’t make CPU but license the designs
RISC-Reduced instruction set computing

Question 7

32 bit versus 64 bit

Answer 7

-32 bit cpu can address up to 4 GB memory
-64 bit CPU can address up to 16 Exabytes

Question 8

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

Answer 8

-Providing multiple CPU sockets on the motherboard
-Usually a feature of server systems

Question 9

Chip Level Multiprocessing (CMP)

Answer 9

-Each CPU contains multiple “cores”
-Each core works as a “more-or-less” independent CPU

Question 10

System BUS

Answer 10

Front side bus between CPU and system memory

Question 11

Expansion BUS

Answer 11

Input/output BUS between CPU and other processor

Question 12

Bootstrapping (booting)

Answer 12

-CPU starts and initializes other components
-Occurs before operating system loads
-Controlled by PC firmware

Question 13

BIOS

Answer 13

Basic inputing/output system

Question 14

UEFI

Answer 14

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

Question 15

USB

Answer 15

-Plug-and-play interface
-Supplies enough power for small peripherals
-Versions and data rates
1.1-12mbps
2.0-480mbps
3.0-5 Gbps
3.1-10Gbps

Question 16

Firewire

Answer 16

Similar to USB but not widely adopted on PCs
Data rate of 400 Mbps
6 pin and unpowered 4-pin connectors

Question 17

Thunderbolt 2

Answer 17

20 Gbps over a MiniDP physical interface

Question 18

Thunderbolt 3

Answer 18

40 Gbps over a USB-C physical interface

Question 19

Personal Area Networks

Answer 19

Wireless communications enable short-range connections to peripheral and networks

Question 20

Bluetooth

Answer 20

-up to 10m
-3 Mbps
-24 Mbps

Question 21

Radio Frequency ID (RFID)

Answer 21

-Passive tags encoded with data
-Respond when scanned by an RFID reader
-Widely used for inventory management

Question 22

Near Field Communicators (NFC)

Answer 22

Peer to peer version of RFID working at very close range
USed on smartphones

Question 23

Speaker and Microphone Jacks

Answer 23

Audio in-Light blue
Microphone Input-Pink
Audio Out-Lime-amplified stereo speakers/headphones
Audio Out-Black-rear speaker
Audio Out-Orange-subwoofer
USB Port (Headsets)

Question 24

Laser Printer

Answer 24

Fuser unit and toner

Question 25

Inkjet

Answer 25

Ink cartridge and print head