Motherboard

Question 1

The ________ ____________ is the device that is solely responsible for ensuring that all the devices and components of the machine are connected to the microprocessor.

Answer 1

COMPUTER MOTHERBOARD

Question 2

This socket is the home for your computer’s processor. There are 2 types of sockets that are commonly used by the major processors (Intel and AMD)

Answer 2

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) SOCKET

Question 3

When you shut your system down, your data is stored in a battery on the motherboard.

Answer 3

MOTHERBOARD BATTERY COMPARTMENT

Question 4

These are the slots that hold the RAM chips of your computer.

Answer 4

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) SLOT

Question 5

There are usually two main types of connectors - 20 + 4 pins (when there are two connectors on the same motherboard), and the 24 pins.

Answer 5

POWER CONNECTORS

Question 6

A capacitor is a device that can store electrical charge.

Answer 6

CAPACITOR

Question 7

It’s a 6-pin connector used to connect peripheral devices, usually a mouse or keyboard, with a computer. Its name comes from the International Business Machines (IBM) series of personal computers, known as the Personal System/2.

Answer 7

PERSONAL SYSTEM 2(PS/2) CONNECTORS

Question 8

is the chip that controls all of the computers I/O functions, such as USB, audio, serial, the system BIOS, the ISA bus, the interrupt controller and the IDE channels. In other words, all of the functions of a processor except memory, PCI and AGP.

Answer 8

MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET Southbridge Southbridge

Question 9

is the replacement of the older PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, often called IDE as well) connections used to connect components like CD/DVD ROM’s, hard drives and solid state drives to the motherboard.

Answer 9

SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment)

Question 10

These types of drives are also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) and Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) drives. The labels relate to the type of interface that is employed to connect the disk drive to the CPU board.

Answer 10

Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)

Question 11

These hard disks use a totally different connector than their PATA counterparts.
Moreover, they also employ a different power adapter than IDE ones, though adapters are easily attainable.

Answer 11

Serial ATA (SATA)

Question 12

In the real world, “optical” refers to vision, or the ability to see. In the computer world, however, “optical” refers to lasers, which can “see” and read data on optical discs.

Answer 12

OPTICAL DRIVE

Question 13

The floppy disk drive reads data from and writes data to a small disk.
The most common type is the 3.5”

Answer 13

FLOPPY DRIVES

Question 14

is made up of small memory chips that form a memory module. These modules are installed in the RAM slots on the motherboard of your computer.

Answer 14

RAM (Random Access Memory)

Question 15

, video adapter, graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card is an expansion card whose function is to generate output images to a display.

Answer 15

Video Card

Question 16

is an integrated expansion circuit card with a specially designed port that allows it to fit into a slot in a computer.

Answer 16

conventional PCI video card (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

Question 17

is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer’s motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

Answer 17

Accelerated Graphics Port (often shortened to AGP)

Question 18

is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards.

Answer 18

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCI

Question 19

is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control.

Answer 19

SOUND CARD

Question 20

also termed as computer chassis or cabinet, is a small enclosure or a box into which all the major computer components and peripherals are fitted.

Answer 20

CPU CASE

Question 21

is a device that supplies electrical energy to one or more electric loads. Also called a power supply unit or PSU, the component that supplies power to a computer.

Answer 21

Power Supply

Question 22

Is an electronic visual display for computers. The monitor comprises the display device, circuitry, and an enclosure.

Answer 22

Computer Monitor

Question 23

A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons.

Answer 23

CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)

Question 24

Also known as liquid crystal diode, is one of the most advanced technologies available at present.

Answer 24

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)

Question 25

is a flat screen, flat panel computer monitor or television. It has a very short depth and is light in terms of weight.

Answer 25

LED (LIGHT EMITTING DIODE)