1.
Older PC's had an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) which had an __-bit data path and ran at 4.77 MHz.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
2.
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
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
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.
A. 
B. 
C. 
Audio/modem riser (AMR) slot
6.
_______ is also called the real time clock/nonvolatile RAM (RTC/NVRAM) chip, which retains the data even when the computer is turned off.
A. 
B. 
Communication and Networking riser (CNR)
C. 
D. 
7.
How many power-on passwords can the CMOS Setup hold to help secure a system?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
8.
______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.
A. 
B. 
Dual Inline Package (DIP) switches
C. 
D. 
9.
________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.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM
10.
The first DIMM to run synchronized with the system clock is ______, which has two notches and uses 168 pins.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM
11.
These DIMMs have two notches on the edge connector and run at constant speeds independent of the system bus speed. What are they called?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
12.
An early version of the SDRAM is _______, which was never embraced by the industry.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
13.
With ________, the memory controller can communicate with two DIMMs at the same time, effectively doubling the speed of memory access.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
14.
______is a legacy memory that uses RIMM memory modules and is named after Rambus Inc.
A. 
Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM)
B. 
Direct Rambus DRAM (RDRAM or Direct RDRAM)
C. 
D. 
15.
______ 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.
A. 
ECC (error-correcting code)
B. 
C. 
D. 
16.
What does CAS (Column Access Strobe) Latency and RAS (Row Access Strobe) Latency do?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
17.
In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent __________ errors which causes a computer to freeze, hang, boot failures, or become unstable.
A. 
B. 
C. 
General Protection Fault (GPF)
D. 
18.
The most popular motherboard form factor is the ____
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
19.
The latest motherboard form factor is the _____
A. 
B. 
C. 
D.