A+ Comptia Guide to Hardware 1
32 Questions I 1054 Attempts I Created By msjoanne 1467 days agoJust a practice test
Question Excerpt From A+ Comptia Guide to Hardware 1
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| Q.2) | On the bottom of the motherboard, is a maze of circuits that make up a bus. These embedded wires carry four kinds of cargo which are: |
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| Q.3) | _______ is a command to the processor to wait for slower devices to catch up |
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| Q.4) | Older PC's had an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) which had an __-bit data path and ran at 4.77 MHz. |
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| Q.5) | The first PCI bus that had a 32-bit data path, supplied 5 V of power and allowed expansion cards to run in sync with the CPU is |
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| Q.6) | This bus has three major revisions and are backward-compatible, increased bandwidth and data integrity. It is generally to keep up with system bus speeds. |
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| Q.7) | This PCI bus is not backward-compatible and uses a serial bus, which is faster than a parallel bus because it transmits data in packets similar to how an Ethernet network, USB, and Firewire transmits data. |
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| Q.8) | Ports coming directly off the motherboard are called _________ or integrated components. |
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| Q.9) | Older motherboards have small expansion slots the length of a PCI Express x1 slot called an__________ slot or a communication or networking riser (CNR) slot. |
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| Q.10) | Small slots such as the AMR and CNR slots accomodate small, inexpensive expansion cards called _______ cards |
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| Q.11) | You can configured the motherboard in three different ways which are: |
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| Q.12) | A _____ has an ON position and an OFF position. ON represents the binary 1 and OFF represents the binary 0. Older motherboards and expansion cards and a few others store setup data using this also. |
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| Q.13) | ________tells the system at what speed the computer is running, or to turn a power-saving feature on or off. |
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| Q.14) | _______ is also called the real time clock/nonvolatile RAM (RTC/NVRAM) chip, which retains the data even when the computer is turned off. |
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| Q.15) | How many power-on passwords can the CMOS Setup hold to help secure a system? |
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| Q.16) | Access to a computer can be controlled using a start-up password, sometimes called a user password, or a ______ password. |
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| Q.17) | ______or spacers are round plastic or metal pegs that separate the motherboard from the case, so that components on the back of the motherboard do not touch the case. |
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| Q.18) | SRAM is faster than DRAM and does not have to be refreshed as often. |
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| Q.19) | ________is an improved version of SDRAM.It has one notch and uses 184 pins. Instead of processing data for each beat of the system clock, as a regular SDRAM does, it processes data, when the beat rises and again falls, doubling the data rate of memory. |
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| Q.20) | The first DIMM to run synchronized with the system clock is ______, which has two notches and uses 168 pins. |
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| Q.21) | These DIMMs have two notches on the edge connector and run at constant speeds independent of the system bus speed. What are they called? |
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| Q.22) | An early version of the SDRAM is _______, which was never embraced by the industry. |
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| Q.23) | With ________, the memory controller can communicate with two DIMMs at the same time, effectively doubling the speed of memory access. |
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| Q.24) | ______is a legacy memory that uses RIMM memory modules and is named after Rambus Inc. |
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| Q.25) | If a slot does not hold a RIMM, it must hold a placeholder module called a ________, to ensure continuity throughout all slots. |
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| Q.26) | A ______is an area on the motherboard that holds the minimum number of memory chips or memory modules that must work together as a unit. |
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| Q.27) | ______ refers to an error checking procedure in which either every byte has an even number of ones or every byte has an odd number of ones. |
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| Q.28) | A new method of error checking called ________ that can detect and correct and error in a single bit. |
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| Q.29) | What does CAS (Column Access Strobe) Latency and RAS (Row Access Strobe) Latency do? |
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| Q.30) | In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent __________ errors which causes a computer to freeze, hang, boot failures, or become unstable. |
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| Q.31) | The most popular motherboard form factor is the ____ |
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| Q.32) | The latest motherboard form factor is the _____ |
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