Chapter 3 - Peripherals and Expansion Flashcards
what are the 4 most common categories of expansion cards installed today?
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video
multimedia
i/o
communications
what is the preferred expansion slot for video card? is it AGP or PCIe?
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PCIe
what is a riser card?
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this is used in NLX motherboard form factor. the vertical space is reduced here, so the expansion slots are put on special cards that allow for optimal usage of the reduced vertical space. these cards are riser cards.
8 types of peripheral ports
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D-subminiature RJ-series Firewire (IEEE 1394) USB Audio Centronics Infrared PS2
what is DA15 connector for?
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game port or MIDI port
IEEE 1394 port is also known as a ____ port
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Firewire port
what was the Centronics connector primarily used in?
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parallel printer connections and SCSI interfaces
what is an interface?
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a method of connecting two dissimilar items together
tell me the two main types of drive interfaces
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floppy disk drive and hard disk drive
you have ribbon cables for the floppy drive and PATA drive. which has 34 pins, which has 40 pins?
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floppy - 34
PATA (hard disk drive) - 40
tell me the 3 options for a parallel port
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standard
bidirectional
enhanced parallel
what is another way to think of an RCA cable?
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its a simple coax cable
what is DVI?
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digital visual interface, to move forward from analog VGA
what’s the max length on your HDMI?
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15 meters
component video is also known as what?
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RGB separation
which is worse quality, s-video or composite video (yellow cable)
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the composite video
what is DisplayPort being replaced by?
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Thunderbolt (collaboration of Intel and Apple)
tell me the difference between the two forms of coax cable used to deliver video
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one ends with RCA or BNC plugs
one ends with F connectors (cable TV)
when was the mouse invented? (give me a decade)
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the 1970s
how did scanners connect to the computer BEFORE the USB came along?
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through a SCSI bus
what kind of reader does the VoIP rely on?
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barcode reader (to scan the MAC address)
what is a QR code?
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Quick Response, its the 2D blocky matrix barcode you see all over the place
what are the two most popular types of touchscreens for handheld devices?
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resistive
capacitive
what is a KVM switch for?
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allows you to switch between sets of devices, stands for keyboard video mouse
tell me three types of multimedia input devices
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web cams
MIDI-enabled devices
digital cameras and camcorders
