A+ Certification - Identifying Personal Computer Components
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | Southbridge
🗑
|
||||
| show | Northbridge
🗑
|
||||
| Which chipset on the motherboard supports the CPU? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Northbridge
🗑
|
||||
| show | Southbridge
🗑
|
||||
| Which chipset on the motherboard supports the Onboard USB/Serial/ Parallel ports? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which chipset on the motherboard supports the ATA Interfaces? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Southbridge
🗑
|
||||
| Which chipset on the motherboard supports FireWire (IEEE1394)? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Southbridge
🗑
|
||||
| show | Northbridge
🗑
|
||||
| What is the frontside bus (FSB)? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The backside bus is a set of signal pathways between the CPU and Level 2 cache (if present).
🗑
|
||||
| Which chipset on the motherboard handles onboard video circuitry? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is a chipset? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ATX
🗑
|
||||
| Which two motherboard form factors place the expansion slots sideways on a special riser card to reduce the vertical space optimally? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Balanced Technology Extended (BTX)
🗑
|
||||
| show | ISA, PCI, AGP,PCIe, AMR, CNR
🗑
|
||||
| show | Industry Standard Architecture
🗑
|
||||
| Describe an ISA slot. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Peripheral Component Interconnect
🗑
|
||||
| Describe PCI slots. | show 🗑
|
||||
| What does AGP stand for? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | AGP slots are a direct connection between the video circuitry and the PC's memory.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Brown
🗑
|
||||
| show | PCIe is faster than AGP.
🗑
|
||||
| What storage device is fixed, non-volitile and stores information on the magnetic surface of hard disk platters? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI
🗑
|
||||
| Name the two categories of storage devices. | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is a removable storage device that utilizes a thin, flexible magnetic storage medium, encased in a plastic shell? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | An Audio Modem Riser (AMR) is a 46 pin expansion slot for analog audio and modem expansion cards.
🗑
|
||||
| show | 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 12X, 16X, 32X
🗑
|
||||
| show | The slot size corresponds to its speed. 1X is the shortest while 32X is the longest.
🗑
|
||||
| Can a lower speed PCIe card be used in a higher speed slot or a higher speed PCIe card used in a lower speed slot? | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Dan_also
Popular Computers sets