First Look Into Computer Parts And Tools

Question 1

Chasis

Answer 1

A computer case for any type of computer.

Question 2

Tower case

Answer 2

The largest type of personal computer case. Tower cases stand vertically and can be as high as two feet tall. They have more drive bays and are a good choice for computer users who anticipate making significant upgrades.

Question 3

Desktop case

Answer 3

A computer case that lies flat and sometimes serves double-duty as a monitor stand.

Question 4

VGA port

Answer 4

Video Graphics array port

Question 5

Vga port

Answer 5

A 15-pin analog video port popular for many years. other names are DB15 PORT,DE15 PORT, OR Hd15 POrt.

Question 6

Analog

Answer 6

A continuous signal with infinite variations.

Question 7

Digital

Answer 7

A signal of series of biary numbers consisting of 1’s and 0’s.

Question 8

S-video port

Answer 8

A 4 or 7 pin circular port that provides a signal for color and another signal for brightness.

Question 9

DVI port

Answer 9

Digital video interface port

Question 10

DVI PORT

Answer 10

A port that transmits digital or analog video

Question 11

Hdmi port

Answer 11

High definition multimedia interface

Port

Question 12

HDMI port

Answer 12

A digital audio and video port currently used on televisions and other home theater equipment and is often used to connect a computer to home theater equipment.

Question 13

Display port

Answer 13

A port that transmits digital video and audio (not analog transmissions) and is slowly replacing VGA and DVI ports on personal computers.

Question 14

Thunderbolt port

Answer 14

A port that transmits both video and data on the same port and cable (sometimes even power). The port is shaped the same as the display port (now it’s changing) and is compatible with display port devices.

Question 15

Network port

Answer 15

A port used by network cable to connect to the wired network. Also see Ethernet port or RJ-45 port.

Question 16

Ethernet port

Answer 16

Same as network port

Question 17

A port that looks like a large phone jack(rj-11) and is used by twister pair cable to connect to a wired network adapter or other hardware device. RJ stands for registered jack.

Answer 17

RJ-45 por

Question 18

Audio ports

Answer 18

A port that can be used by a microphone,audio in,audio out ,and stereo audio out. Also called a sound port.

Question 19

S/PDIF sound port

Answer 19

Sony/Philips dita

Question 20

S/PDIF SOUND PORT

Answer 20

a port that connects to an external home theater audio system, providing digital audio output and the best signal quality.

Question 21

Optical Connector

Answer 21

A connector used with a fiber-optic cable.

Question 22

USB ( Universal Serial Bus) port

Answer 22

A type of port designed to make installation and configuration of I/O devices easy, providing room for as many as 127 devices daisy-chained together.

Question 23

FireWire port

Answer 23

A port used for high-speed multimedia devices such as camcorders. Also called an IEEE 1394 port.

Question 24

IEEE 1394 port

Answer 24

FireWire Port’s alternative name.

Question 25

PS/2 port

Answer 25

A round 6-pin port used by a keyboard or mouse.

Question 26

Serial port

Answer 26

A male 9-pin or 25-pin port on a computer system used by slower I/O devices such as a mouse or a modem. Data travels serially, one bit at a time, through the port. Serial ports are sometimes configured as COM1, COM2, COM3, or COM4. Also called DB9 port.

Question 27

Parallel port

Answer 27

An outdated female 25-pin port on a computer that transmitted data in parallel 8 bits at a time, and was usually used with a printer. Parallel ports have been replaced by USB ports.

Question 28

Solid-State drive (SSD)

Answer 28

A hard drive that has no moving parts.

Question 29

Solid-State Device (SSD)

Answer 29

An electronic device with no moving parts. A storage device that uses memory chips to store data instead of spinning disks ( such as those used by magnetic hard drives and CD drives.). Examples of solid state devices are jump drives (also called key drives or thumb drives), flash memory cards, and solid state disks used as hard drives in notebook computers designed for the most rugged uses. Also called solid state disk or solid state drive.

Question 30

NAND flash memory

Answer 30

The type of memory used in SSD. NAND stands for "NOT AND" and refers to the logic when storing a one or zero in grid of rows and columns on the memory chip.

Question 31

Wear leveling

Answer 31

A technique used on SSD that assures the logical block addressing does not always address the same physical blocks in order to distribute write operations more evenly across the device.

Question 32

Magnetic hard drive

Answer 32

One of two technologies used by hard drives where data is stored as magnetic spots on disks that rotate at a high speed,