Computer Hardware

Question 1

Devices connected to motherboard need what to work ?

Answer 1

Device drivers

Question 2

What kind of devices connect to the motherboard ?

Answer 2

Video cards, sound cards, hard drives, optical drives, CPU, RAM sticks, USB ports, power supply etc

Question 3

What is the function of CPU ?

Answer 3

Interpret and execute most of the commands from computer’s hardware and software components

Question 4

What is CPU clock speed

Answer 4

Number of instructions a CPU can process in any given second. ( GHz )

3GHz = 3 billion instructions every second

Question 5

What is the advantage of CPU cores ?

Answer 5

CPU can simultaneously manage twice (or more) the instructions

Question 6

What is Hyper- Threading ?

Answer 6

In a hyper-threaded system, for each physical processor core, the operating system recognizes two virtual (logical) cores.

Question 7

What is prefetching ?

Answer 7

Process of fetching data before they are needed

Question 8

Where is cache memory located ?

Answer 8

Inside cpu. Its faster

Question 9

What is the name of a stick of DRAM

Answer 9

DIMM

Question 10

DRAM chips are stored on _____ ?

Answer 10

DIMM

Question 11

DRAM connects to motherboard via ____ ?

Answer 11

Memory Channels