Motherboards and CPU's 801-Ch 2

Question 1

Which type of bus connects the processor to the main memory?

Answer 1

Data Bus

Question 2

True or False, A Riser card is a circuit board that connects to a motherboard to provide additional expansion slots or sockets?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

By convention, PCI or Peripheral Component Interconnect, slots are which color?

Answer 3

White

Question 4

What are the 2 main types of cooling fans used on a standard PC?

Answer 4

Power Supply fan and Auxiliary Fan

Question 5

True or False, A Heat sink is something that absorbs and transfers heat better than its surroundings?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What connects a Fin to the die or integrated metal plate on the CPU?

Answer 6

Thermal Compound

Question 7

What type of cooling system typically has small tubes, built into cooling fins, filled with a small amount of fluid? Heat pipes, water pumps, Peltier coolers or Phase - Change cooling?

Answer 7

Heat Pipes

Question 8

Which type of of heating system is best for systems that generate too much heat for fins and heat pipes to cool? Heat pipes, water pumps, Peltier coolers or Phase - Change cooling

Answer 8

Water Pumps

Question 9

Which of the following cooling system is an electronic component that gets colder when voltage is applied?Heat pipes, water pumps, Peltier coolers or Phase - Change cooling

Answer 9

Peltier Coolers

Question 10

Which of the following cooling system utilizes a vapor compression unit, much the a AC unit, to cool the processor?Heat pipes, water pumps, Peltier coolers or Phase - Change cooling

Answer 10

Phase - Change cooling

Question 11

True or False, The BIOS or Basic Input.Output System is the computers firmware

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or False, the CMOS battery or Complementary metal oxide semiconductor is used to keep date and time on the PC?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Typically the PCI bus is used for what bit bus?

8, 16, 32, 64?

Answer 13

32 Bit Bus

Question 14

The AGP Bus is typically used for what Bit Bus? 8,16,32,64?

Answer 14

32 Bit Bus

Question 15

Which is NOT a component of a CPU? Bus architecture, Execution unit, Control Unit, Register?

Answer 15

Bus Architecture

Question 16

The math coprocessor was the predecessor to which CPU component? ACL, FPU, Core, or Register?

Answer 16

FPU

Question 17

A single Core was one of what compound? Control Unit, Execution Unit, FPU, or Register?

Answer 17

Execution Unit

Question 18

True or False, Registers are very small, very fast, memory locations, for holding instructions or units of data?

Answer 18

True