Hardware 5 MAIN COMPONENTS

Question 1

What does the term, CPU do as it’s function?

Answer 1

Function: The brain, where everything get’s processed (You can remember this by looking at Central Processing bit, our brain is the Central Processing part of our body..)

Question 2

What is CPU measured in?

Answer 2

Clock speed: Measures the amount of cycles the CPU executes per second

Question 3

What is clock speed measured in?

Answer 3

GHz

Question 4

Define the term ‘Motherboard’.

Answer 4

Where everything connects in the computer

Question 5

What does CPU stand for?

Answer 5

Central Processing Unit

Question 6

What is the Motherboard measured in?

Answer 6

PCI-Express
Number of RAM spots, CPU spots

Question 7

What does PCI-Express stand for?

Answer 7

Peripheral component interconnect express

Question 8

What does RAM mean? (Not stand for).

Answer 8

Temporary memory banks that store data.

Question 9

What does RAM stand for?

Answer 9

Random Access Memory

Question 10

How is RAM measured?

Answer 10

Capacity of GB, goes up in 4,8,12…

Question 11

What is the usual amount of GB in RAM found in?

Answer 11

8GB

Question 12

What is a SSD used for?

Answer 12

Store data permanently inside integrated (separate) circuit.

Question 13

What does SSD stand for?

Answer 13

Solid State Drive

Question 14

What is SSD measured in?

Answer 14

GB and TB

Question 15

What is a hardrive?

Answer 15

Hard disk drives functions by writing binary data onto magnetic disks (platters) that rotate at high speeds.

Question 16

What is a hardrive usually measured in?

Answer 16

Inches

Question 17

What is:
i) a PSU, how does it work?
ii) What does it stand for?

Answer 17

i) A power supply unit (PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of a computer.

ii) Power Supply Unit

Question 18

How do you measure a PSU?

Answer 18

Multiply the total amps of all components by the total volts of all components.

Question 19

What is a GPU?

Answer 19

Designed to accelerate graphics rendering

Question 20

i) What does GPU stand for?
ii) What is it measured in?

Answer 20

i)Graphics Processing Unit

ii)Measured in size (bits), amount of available memory (MB), clock rate (MHz), and bandwidth (GB/s).