Local Lingo

Question 0

The international organization that creates standards for electrical things

Answer 0

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Question 1

Many techs refer to the CMOS program as the ___

Answer 1

System Setup Utility

Question 2

Most common LCD monitors use a technology called

Answer 2

Thin-film transistor (TFT)

Question 3

Different manufacturers (Apple, Sony, & Texas Instruments) market this same data transfer technology under different trade names

Answer 3

IEEE 1394 (FireWire, iLink, Lynx)

Question 4

Electrical charge that occurs when two objects with different electrical potentials come into contact with each other

Answer 4

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

Question 5

Occurs when two signals are close enough to each other to interfere with each other

Answer 5

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)

Question 6

An uninterruptible power supply is sometimes called ___

Answer 6

Battery Backup

Question 7

How charged something is relative to the zero ground of the Earth

Answer 7

Electrical Potential

Question 8

Many PC techs call motherboards ___

Answer 8

System Boards or “mobos”

Question 9

A known-good computer part to swap in or out in the troubleshooting process

Answer 9

Field Replaceable Unit (FRU)

Question 10

PSU

Answer 10

Power Supply Unit

Question 11

The amount of amperage flowing at a specific voltage

Answer 11

Wattage {usually written as W = VA}