Review

Question 1

Made up of a large aluminum block with an attached fan. This component obscures the view with the system’s _______.

Answer 1

CPU

Question 2

Your motherboard supports triple channel DIMMS and you have 3 modules installed. What would happen if you installed a fourth module/

Answer 2

Board would rever to Dual Channel.

Question 3

Which memory module has 240 pins and can support quad,triple, or dual channels?

Answer 3

DDR3 DIMM

Question 4

Which of the following are terms used for memory cache on a processor die?

Answer 4

L1, L2, L3 cache

Question 5

Which of the following runs twice as fast as regular SDRAM and uses 184 pins?

Answer 5

DDR SDRAM

Question 6

If your system has a processor frequency of 2.4 GHz but a system bus frequency of 600MHz externally, what is the multiplier for this system?

Answer 6

4

Question 7

How many threads can a quad-core processor handle at once?

Answer 7

Eight

Question 8

A processor contains 3 basic components

Answer 8

I/O unit, A control unit, ALU;s

Question 9

You are installing a Pentium LGA 1150 processor. After inserting the processor how is it secured?

Answer 9

Load plate and latch

Question 10

Which of the following statements about the DDR4 are true?

Answer 10

It is faster than its predecessors, it requires a lower voltage, it can support quad channel operations, it can suport dual channel operations.

Question 11

To calculate the PC rating for a DDR DIMM, you must multiply the speed by which of the following?

Answer 11

8

Question 12

A processor that contains two ALU’s, one control unit and 8 registers would be classified as this type of processor.

Answer 12

Dual core

Question 13

All processors manufactured after_____ support both 32 bit and 64 bit processing.

Answer 13

2007

Question 14

From the run dialog box,which command would you use to bring up the System Information Utility?

Answer 14

Msinfo32

Question 15

How wide is the data portion of the external bus on the pentium CPU

Answer 15

64 bits

Question 16

Which step do you take to overclock a processor?

Answer 16

Increase the clock speed, increase the multiplier, increase the frequency

Question 17

Which processor is not the intel family

Answer 17

Phenom

Question 18

How is Multiprocessing achieved?

Answer 18

It is achieved by using more than one ALU on a processor.

Question 19

Concerning error checking and parity, when you have a set of modules that support ecc each will have one of these.

Answer 19

9th chip

Question 20

Which of the following terms best describe small holding areas on the processor chip that hold counters, data, instructions, and addresses that the ALU is currently processing?

Answer 20

Registers

Question 21

Your processor contains for AlUs. Four L1 and Four L2 Cache, A single I/O unit and a single Control Unit.

Answer 21

Quad core

Question 22

What type of memory module is used in most laptops today?

Answer 22

SO-DIMM

Question 23

Processors that can process 32 bits or 64 bits are known as which type of processors?

Answer 23

x86-64

Question 24

What type of Double Data Rate SDRAM uses 288 pins?

Answer 24

DDR4

Question 25

For a triple channel installation, if a matching pair of DIMMS is installed in the first two slots and another matching pair of DIMMs is installed in the last two slots, what will occur?

Answer 25

The memory controller will use dual channels