Hardware Study Guide

Question 1

what are the three PC tower sizes

Answer 1

full, mini, macro

Question 2

how many storage devices can attach to a SATA port

Answer 2

one

Question 3

OLD PC CPUs had a chipset that is split into ____ sections

Answer 3

two

Question 4

ATX new form factor was designed in…

Answer 4

1995

Question 5

FRU =

Answer 5

Field Replaceable Unit

Question 6

Bios is a type of…

Answer 6

Firmware

Question 7

AIT =

Answer 7

Advanced Intelligent Tape can hold up to 200 GB of data

Question 8

DVDs can hold…

Answer 8

4.75 GB of data

Question 9

DVD-RW media allows for…

Answer 9

double-layer recording

Question 10

POST =

Answer 10

Power on self-diagnostic test

Question 11

When upgrading components on the motherboard you should change the position of the jumpers. True or False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Transistors and Capacitors store…

Answer 12

electrical signal

Question 13

Form factor refers to

Answer 13

the shape and layout of a motherboard and case.

Question 14

RAM is called…

Answer 14

working memory

Question 15

The basic timing signal for the CPU is…

Answer 15

the system clock which synchronizes the operation of all part of the PC

Question 16

Linear tape-Open (LTO) Tapes have

Answer 16

up to 2.5 TB of uncompressed capacity.

Question 17

what do sound cards provide connections for?

Answer 17

audio input (microphones and MDI and output (speakers and MIDI).

Question 18

How many DDR standards are there

Answer 18

4

Question 19

A System firmware setup program will contain information on

Answer 19

CPU, RAM, and Hard drives

Question 20

If you add SDRAM to your PC with a bus speed of 70 MHz

Answer 20

the bandwidth for the system will be 560MB per second.

Question 21

If a program or files are actively being used or are open by the user, they are being used in system memory. T or F

Answer 21

True

Question 22

If you add an odd number of RAM modules or you mismatch DIMM cards, there will be an error and the system might not work properly. T or F

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The boot sequence is very important in the system setup. T or F

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves

Answer 24

a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory.

Question 25

Motherboards formerly used parity checking to detect errors. T or F

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Graphic card memory (GDDR) is…

Answer 26

graphics memory that is dedicated to a discrete GPU and the workloads it operates on, separate from the system memory plugged in to your motherboard

Question 27

DRAM stores each data bit as…

Answer 27

an electrical charge within a single-bit cell.

Question 28

RAM only retains data while…

Answer 28

there is a power source

Question 29

Laptops typically use SODIMM RAM which could be

Answer 29

DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, and now DDR5

Question 30

Ideally you will use similar memory in all sockets when a dual-channel motherboard is used. T or F

Answer 30

True

Question 31

When a computer is booted (started)

Answer 31

serial presence detect (SPD) is information stored in an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) chip on a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) memory module that tells the basic input/output system BIOS the module’s size, data width, speed, and voltage. It detects installed memory modules

Question 32

rive encryption encrypts

Answer 32

the entire content of the drive like system files and folders.

Question 33

A Thread is

Answer 33

a stream of instructions generated by software applications.

Question 34

The best CPU ranges are

Answer 34

Core i3, i5, i7

Question 35

Intel and AMD have a huge presence in…

Answer 35

in the desktop and laptop market

Question 36

ARM has a large presence and is widely used in

Answer 36

smartphones and tablets.