CSS MIDTERM

Question 1

is simply a method of
stating how you, your employees,
contractors and visitors are expected to
behave when they are on Company
property or performing Company
related activities.

Answer 1

OHS Policy

Question 2

Which is the most important component of a computer system?

Answer 2

Each and every component is important, where processor plays an
important role in the computer but it cant operate without memory

Question 3

socket is where your CPU (processor) is
installed.

Answer 3

CPU Socket

Question 3

considered an integral part of your Computer. It is the brain of the
computer that responsible for fetching, decoding, and executing program instructions as well as
performing mathematical and logical calculations.

Answer 3

CPU/Central Processing Unit

Question 4

consists of a socket with pins that you place the processor on.

Answer 4

“Land grid array” (LGA)

Question 5

is a gap on your computer’s motherboard where you
can insert your RAM.

Answer 5

RAM slot, socket, or a memory slot

Question 6

on the other hand, places the pins on the processor,
which you then insert into a socket with appropriately placed holes.

Answer 6

(“pin grid array”) PGA

Question 7

is where all the information and settings for the motherboard are
stored.

Answer 7

BIOS CHIP/Basic Input/Output System

Question 8

responsible for keeping all the
information intact when the entire system is shut down.

Answer 8

CMOS BATTERY/Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

Question 9

These are the slots that allow inserting expansion cards such as graphics card, sound card, LAN card
or several other functional computer parts.

Answer 9

The Expansion Buses

Question 10

is an interface on the motherboard that allows you to put in a device that requires power, famous
for coming with the first Intel Pentiums in 1993.

Answer 10

PCI/peripheral components interconnect

Question 11

extended version of PCI

Answer 11

PCIE

Question 12

They are mainly use to support video graphics card with high requirements

Answer 12

AGP/ADVANCE ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT

Question 13

oldest types of slots on the motherboard.

Answer 13

ISA/’Industry Standard Architecture’

Question 14

These are the standard
interface for connecting a motherboard to storage devices such as hard drives and CD-ROM/DVD drives.

Answer 14

IDE/Integrated Drive Electronics

Question 15

is a computer bus interface used to connect host bus adapters (disk drive controllers) with mass
storage devices like optical drives and hard drives.

Answer 15

SATA/SERIAL-ATA

Question 16

is in charge of controlling transfers between the processor
and the RAM, which is why it is located physically near the processor.

Answer 16

THE NORTHBRIDGE/(also called the memory controller)

Question 17

handles communications
between slower peripheral devices such as USB, audio, serial, the system BIOS, the ISA bus, the interrupt controller
and the IDE channels.

Answer 17

The SouthBridge (also called the input/output controller or expansion controller)