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Hardware Midterm 2

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How many steps are there to laser printers?   7  
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Step 1 for laser printing?   Processing - receive date from computer (font, images and formatting) and puts that page image into printer memory.  
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Step 2 for laser printing?   Charging/Conditioning - Charge on drum from wire (primary corona) or a charge roller. Regulated by a screen. -600V  
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Step 3 for laser printing?   Writing/Exposing - Charged drum (-600V) exposed to laser where image is to be printed. Changes charge to -100V.  
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Step 4 for laser printing?   Developing - Toner (powder of plastic and iron) released by developer roller. Attaches to places where laser hit (-100V).  
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Step 5 for laser printing?   Transferring - Paper fed to printer, given positive charge (by corona or charge roller). Toner attracted to paper.  
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Step 6 for laser printing?   Fusing - powder sitting on paper. Lamp heat up fusing roller and toner bonded to paper.  
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Step 7 for laser printing?   Cleaning - remaining toner + charge wiped away by cleaning blade.  
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What is toner?   Plastic + Iron  
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What is impact printer used for?   Carbon copies  
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Advantages of dot matrix?   Can make carbon copies.  
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Disadvantage of dot matrix?   Expensive, loud, slow, mechanical, limited colour.  
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Advantages of ink jet?   Cheap, quiet, fast, colour  
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Disadvantages of ink jet?   Ink expensive, no carbon copy, can dry  
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How many Pins used in a dot matrix?   9, 18, 24  
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What are the 2 modes that dot matrix can print in?   Font + Dot Address  
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What are the 2 paper handling methods of dot matrix?   Friction + Tractor  
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What are the 2 methods of projecting ink?   Drop on demand + Continuous stream  
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What are the 3 colours of of ink for ink jet?   Cyan, Magenta, Yellow...and Black  
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Constant stream uses what kind of crystal?   Piezo Crystals  
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What is DSP?   Digital Signal/Sound Processor  
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What is DAC and ADC?   Digital to Analog Converter Analog to Digital Converter  
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What is a breakout box?   Controller that can have remote, dials, jacks, etc.  
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What are the various sound jack colours?   Green = Front/Headphone Black = Rear Pink = Mic Blue = Line Out Orange = Sub-woofer / Center  
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Difference between Lossy and Lossless sound types?   Compression. Lossy doesn't record information that (most) humans are unable to hear. Lossless is a records everything.  
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PINS: Floppy?   34  
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PINS: P1 / Main ATX Power?   24 (older has 20)  
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PINS: PCI-e?   8 (older has 6) +12V, some video cards can require 4x  
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PINS: Narrow Internal SCSI   50  
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PINS: Wide Internal SCSI   68  
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PINS: DDR3 / DDR2   240  
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PINS: DDR   184  
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PINS: Front Panel (Server)   24  
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PINS: EPS?   8  
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PINS: P4?   4 - Processor Power +12V  
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PINS: Molex?   4 - +12V, +5V  
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PINS: Berg?   4 - Floppy Power +12V, +5V  
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PINS: SATA?   15 - +12V, +5V, +3.3V  
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PINS: AUX?   6 - Not found recently, reduces load on P1 +5V, +3.3V  
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PINS: SCSI?   25  
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Differences between server and desktop?   Size, Processor type and amount (Xeon, Opteron), Video/Sound cards.  
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How wide typical server rack?   19 inch  
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What does it mean to say server is running headless?   No monitor, have to remote into it.  
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How do you measure server in units?   U's, 1 U = 1.75 inch  
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Whats found in a server that's not found in a desktop?   PCIx 64bit  
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What is a blade server?   Vertical server units, can be hot swapped.  
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Which wireless standard does not use the 2.4GHz frequency?   A  
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What is WPAN?   Wireless Personal Area Network, normally using Bluetooth.  
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WPA vs WPA2?   WPA - software encryption, not as secure WPA2 - hardware encryption, more secure, more resources from the router.  
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Why isn't wireless standard G backwards compatible with A?   Different frequencies. A= 5, G= 2.4  
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Shortest range Bluetooth?   Class 3 - 1m Class 2 - 10m Class 1 - 100m  
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What frequency does Bluetooth use?   2.4 GHz  
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What methods are there to secure wireless network?   MAC filtering, don't broadcast SSID, WPA atleast, WPA2 even better.  
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What does SCSI symbol look like?   Cross beween upper case C and G  
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What is SCSI ID?   Should be unique, all devices require one, highest priority = 7  
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Which SCSI ID should be given to host adapter card?   Highest (7)  
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Difference between wide and narrow SCSI?   Narrow = 50 pins, 8 devices Wide= 68 pins, 16 devices Wide is physically less wide.  
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What is SAS?   Serial Attached SCSI  
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Alternative to SAS?   Parallel SCSI  
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SAS vs Parellel?   Serial = faster, no termination, SCSI auto ID  
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How do you terminate SCSI?   Terminate on both ends of bus. All internal/external? Host Adapter to final device. Some internal/external? Final device internal to final device external.  
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What company makes vast majority of SCSI stuff?   Adaptec  
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What is SCAM?   SCSI Configure Auto Matically(Magically)  
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How many SCSI adapters on a chain?   Narrow - 8 Wide - 16  
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How do SCSI device physical location affect the ID?   It doesn't, LOL!  
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Official standard for Firewire?   1394  
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Number of devices Firewire and USB can handle?   Firewire = 63 USB = 127  
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General speed of floppy drives?   300 rpm  
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General disk size of floppy disk?   1.44MB, Double sided High-density  
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How does the twist in the floppy cable work?   Before the twist = Secondary (B:\) After the twist = Primary (A:\)  
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What does it mean if the Floppy drive light is staying on?   It has been plugged in backwards.  
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What method is used to record on floppy?   It is called Tunnel Erasure Single band of information between 2 erased bands.  
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What is odd of floppy recording compared to hard disk?   Floppy has constant head crash, always touching. Means has to be cleaned and teflon coating to help it.  
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What is the difference between memory and module type?   Memory example = DDR Module example = DIMM/SIMM  
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What type of memory uses a continuity module?   RAM BUS  
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Why would you flash a system BIOS?   To upgrade the firmware.  
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How do you flash a BIOS?   Need to get the utility for specific motherboard from manufacturer and the upgraded bios.  
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DDR-400 =? PC3-5200 =?   PC-3200 DDR3-650 DDR #= PC#x8 PC#= DDR#/8  
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What are some popular Firewire devices?   Scanner, Camera, printer, apple stuff  
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Wire voltages?   Yellow/Blue = 12/-12 Orange = 3.3 Red/White = 5/-5 Purple = 5 standby Green/Grey = PWR ON/OK Black = COM = ground  
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What is the difference between power supplies?   Wattage, Heat dissipation, modular, effeciency  
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What is SRAM?   Static RAM - cache memory  
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What is DRAM   Dynamic RAM - main memory  
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What type of connectors do video cards have?   HDMI, DVI-i, VGA, S-video  
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Different types of DVI?   DVI-i= digital+analog DVI-a= analog DVI-d= digital  
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Name of Nvidia and AMX multiple video card solution?   Crossfire and SLI  
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Where is cache found?   LvL 1 and 2 = On CPU, individual for each core LvL 3 = shared between cores  
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