Hardware 1_practice test 4
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| Where does the motherboard store the keyboard controller support program | ROM chip
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| Which LCD components are powered by a high-voltage electrical circuit that can give you a nasty shock? | Invertors
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| Where does the motherboard store the keyboard controller support program | SATA 3.0
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| Which USB ports are typically used to interface with the PC? | A
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| Which cache on the CPU is used first? | L1
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| Which chip acts as a clock to keep the current date and the time? | CMOS
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| Which chip can be reprogrammed to update its contents? | Flash ROM
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| Which chip converts serial data to parallel data? | UART
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| Which chip is used to store information that describes specific device parameters? | CMOS
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| Which connector type has a slight D-shape? | DM
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| Which is the first electrical component to "wake up" when a computer is turned on? | CPU
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| Which of the following components is read-only? | ROM
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| Which of the following devices would be fastest for a printer? | USB 2.0
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| Which of the following displays use analog signals instead of digital ones? | CRT
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| Which of the following does not require jumper settings? | SATA
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| Which of the following is a complete copy of a CD that can be burned to another CD to make a duplicate? | ISO File
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| Which of the following is an important difference between desktops and mobile devices, in terms of CPU needs? | Mobile devices need to consume less electricity.
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| Which of the following is equivalent to 1024 bytes? | 1 kilobyte
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| Which of the following is not a valid standard for recordable DVD? | DVD-ROM
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| Which of the following is not applicable for LCDs? | They flicker a lot.
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| Which of the following is the fastest external optical drive interface? | eSATA
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| Which of the following optical media types is popular for today's high-density movies? | Blue-ray
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| Which of the following stores the data that the CPU actively uses? | RAM
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| Which of the following terms is used to define the first cache that the CPU uses? | L1 cache
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| Which of the following would prove more damaging to a CD-RW? | Scratching the top of a disc
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| Which player is commonly used to play Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) files? | Quick time
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| Which ports, often coded blue to distinguish them from older ports, are fully backward-compatible? | USB 3.0
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| Which statement is not true? | A terabyte is 10000 gigabytes.
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| Which tool comes built-in with Windows Vista/7 and allows you to create video DVDs? | Windows DVD maker
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| Which type of processor is sometimes integrated with the CPU to handle certain tasks more efficiently, such as video processing? | GPU
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| Which type of socket package do Intel processors use? | LGA
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| Which types of video connectors are common today? | VGA, DVI
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| Which was the first widely adopted USB standard? | 1.1
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| Windows __________ has the built-in ability to burn ISOs without the need for third-party tools. | 1
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| You may need to change the ____ in CMOS to install a new OS from the installation media. | Boot order
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| ____ are the lights that have positive and negative sides. | LEDs
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| ____ is the smallest motherboard version in the ATX standard. | FlexATX
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| A DIMM in any one of the DIMM slots is referred to as ____. | a bank
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| A ____ is a circle where data is stored on a drive. | track
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| All modern CD-R drives allow you to burn additional data onto a CD-R disc until the disc is full. What are these drives called? | Multisession drives
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| Be sure to orient the colored stripe on the side of the floppy cable to ____ on the motherboard floppy controller. | Pin 1
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| CPUs typically run faster than the clock. What do they use to do this? | Multipliers
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| hipsets that support a feature called triple-channel memory usually support which type of memory? |
DDR3
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| Combining many CPUs) into a single chip is called: | Multicore processing
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| Conventionally, if there is only one floppy drive, which drive letter should it be assigned? | A:
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| DDR SDRAM for desktops comes in ____. | 184-pin DIMMs
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| Each platter requires ____ heads. | two
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| Electrical surges and ESD can cause ____ failure. | compnent
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| How fast does a Hi-Speed USB device run? | 480 Mbps
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| How fast is IEEE 1394b? | 800 Mbps
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