IT Vocab PC 7

Question 1

Popular motherboard form factor that generally replaced the AT form factor

Answer 1

Advanced Technology extended

Question 2

the physical size of the motherboard as well as the general location of components and ports

Answer 2

form factor

Question 3

Reading and writing

Answer 3

mirroring

Question 4

Model name of the second-generation, 80286-based computer. Bought the BIOS, CMOS, and expansion bus into industry standard

Answer 4

Advanced Technology (AT)

Question 5

The process of fixing the BIOS on a motherboard; a lot of system stability problems and provides better implementation of built-in technology

Answer 5

Flashing

Question 6

Program used by the operating system to control communications between the computer and peripherals

Answer 6

device drivers

Question 7

Electronic chips, specially designed to work together, that handle all of the low-level functions of a PC

Answer 7

chipset

Question 8

Set of wires going to the CPU, governed by the expansion bus crystal, directly connected to the expansion slot of varying types

Answer 8

expansion bus

Question 9

Part of a motherboard chipset; handles all the inputs and outputs to the many devices in the PC

Answer 9

Southbridge

Question 10

Used in a common method for numbering boot devices

Answer 10

channel

Question 11

Registered Jack connector

Answer 11

RJ-45

Question 12

Bag made of antistatic plastic into which electronics are placed for temporary or long-term storage. Used to protect components from electrostatic discharge

Answer 12

anti-static bag

Question 13

Connectors on a motherboard that enable users to add optional components to a system

Answer 13

expansion slots

Question 14

a crystal that provides the speed signals for the CPU and the rest of the system

Answer 14

system crystal

Question 15

Small electrical connections embedded in a circuit board

Answer 15

traces

Question 16

technology unique to a particular vendor

Answer 16

Proprietary

Question 17

A family of motherboard form factors which is quite small

Answer 17

ITX

Question 18

PCI made it into laptops in the specialty format

Answer 18

Mini-PCI

Question 19

Fixed speed in revolutions per minute at which a given HDD’s platters spin

Answer 19

spindle speed

Question 20

Describes a failure in which a component or whole system will not boot; usually related to a manufacturing defect of a component

Answer 20

catastrophic failure

Question 21

Chip specially designed to control low-speed, legacy devices such as the keyboard, mouse, and serial/parallel ports

Answer 21

Super/IO chip

Question 22

AMD product that consolidates the GPU and CPU into a single chip

Answer 22

Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)

Question 23

Chip that connects a CPU to memory, the PCI bus, Level 2 cache, and high-speed graphics. Communicates with the CPU through the frontside bus

Answer 23

Northbridge

Question 24

User Account, created when the OS is first installed, that is allowed complete, unfettered access to the system without restriction

Answer 24

administrative account

Question 25

Copper etched onto a non-conductive material and then coated with some sort of epoxy for strength

Answer 25

printed circuit boards (PCBs)

Question 26

Two or more drives in a group that are used for striped volume

Answer 26

stripe set