Hardware

Question 1

Examples of mini RCA jacks:

Answer 1

Microphone, Headphones

Question 2

What is a “bus”?

Answer 2

A pathway between two components

Question 3

Advantages of USB?

Answer 3

Don’t have to open the computer to install
Most devices have software on the device themselves
for small items USB transfers data and charges
“Daisy Chain” turn USB port into multiple ports

Question 4

What is VGA?

Answer 4

Plain vanilla, female port for video (usually blue)

Question 5

What’s the printer port called?

Answer 5

Printer Port
LPT Port
Parallel Port

Question 6

What is the “Male” connector port in the back called?

How does data move in this port?

Answer 6

Comms Port
Serial Port
(Data Only Port where data moves in only one direction)

Question 7

What goes into PS2 ports?

Answer 7

Mouse

Keyboard

Question 8

What is a DVI card?
What does it replace?
Where is it installed?

Answer 8

An additional video port added on to improve graphics
Replaces VGA (overrides VGA when connected)
Placed into the PCI port in the back

Question 9

What does the power supply box do?

Answer 9

take power, breaks it down into smaller power sources and distributes it

Question 10

*** What does the Motherboard do?

Answer 10

Connects all of the different parts of the computer to the others;
allows data and power to xfer from one component to another;
No Evidentiary Value in the MB

Question 11

What does the CPU do? Does CPU hold data?

Answer 11

“Brains of the Computer”
***gets the commands from other parts of the computer and it carries them out.

Instructions are fed from the software, CPU carries them out

CPU does NOT hold data

Question 12

What does RAM do?

Answer 12

Temporary work area for anything the computer needs on a temporary basis
Data or instructions are NOT there permanently

Question 13

***What is “Volatile Data”?

Answer 13

Data will be lost when power is lost

Question 14

***What are the conditions for memory to be on RAM?

Answer 14

1) Computer has to be turned on

2) The Operating system has to have put it there

Question 15

Is there any evidentiary value in RAM?

Answer 15

YES! Lost of good evidence in RAM but you HAVE to access it with the computer on. (If you lose power, you lose RAM)

Question 16

Why is Ram access so quickly?

Answer 16

Because it is on the Motherboard

Question 17

What type of data is stored on Data storage devices, volatile or non-volatile?

Answer 17

Non-Volatile

Question 18

What are SATA Cables?

Answer 18

Modern cable method of transferring data from internal data storage devices to the motherboard

(IDE cable is the old school method)

Question 19

What are PCI cards? What is the advantage?

Answer 19

Another way of transferring data to the motherboard, obsolete. Old School way to connect a device
Advantage - it is plugged directly into the motherboard so it is fast; higher data capacity

Question 20

What is BIOS used for?

Answer 20

1) Hardware Check

2) User Configuration Settings (hardware settings)

Question 21

How can you get around passwords that are set for power up and set up?

Answer 21

Pull the “Jumper Pin” from the Motherboard