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 Generally when shopping for a motherboard for a gaming system, you'd need to pay attention to form factor, processor sockets, chipsets, buses and number of bus slots, and other connectors, slots, and ports. | True |
| Today's PCs have four or five buses, each with different speeds, access methods, and protocols. | True |
| PCIe is backward compatible | False |
| The motherboard configuration stored in BIOS setup needs to be changed when a new floppy drive is installed. | False |
| Many brand-name computer manufacturers, such as IBM, Dell, and Gateway, use the same standard setup screens. | False |
| A hard disk drive (HDD), most often called a hard drive, comes in two sizes for personal computers: the 1.8" size is used for laptop computers and the 2.5" size is used for desktops. | False |
| Solid state hard drives cost more and are less rugged than magnetic hard drives. | False |
| Almost all hard drives sold today for desktop computers are magnetic hard drives. | True |
| If you are replacing a floppy drive, you must inform BIOS setup by accessing setup and changing the drive type. | False |
| Hardware problems usually show up at POST, unless there is physical damage to an area of the hard drive that is not accessed during POST. | True |
| An I/O device can be only be internal. | False |
| USB is much easier to configure and faster than regular serial or parallel ports and uses higher-quality cabling. | True |
| Because USB devices are hot-swappable, it's never a problem to plug or unplug a device while it is turned on. | False |
| SuperSpeed USB is about ten times faster than Hi-Speed USB and roughly five times faster than FireWire 800. | True |
| Newer computers do not allow you to boot without a keyboard. | False |
| Sights and sounds have an infinite number of variations and are analog in nature. | True |
| Common file extensions for raw, uncompressed sound files are .wav and .tif. | True |
| A good source for information about hardware devices (and software) is a site that offers product reviews and technical specifications and compares product prices and features. | True |
| To judge how far to insert the optical drive in the bay, align it with the back of the case. | False |
| The burn process requires a constant flow of data to the disc. | True |
| A ____ is the most complicated component in a computer. | motherboard |
| The ____ and the chipset determine which processors a board can support. | processor socket |
| Earlier Pentiums used a ____ socket, with pins aligned in uniform rows around the socket. | pin grid array |
| Later sockets used a ____, with pins staggered over the socket to squeeze more pins into a small space. | staggered pin grid array |
| The ____ have a lever that is used to lift the processor up and out of the socket. | zero insertion force sockets |
| The fast end of hub in the Intel i800 series chipsets, which contains the graphics and memory controller, connects to the system bus and is called the hub's ____. | North Bridge |
| The slower end of the hub in the Intel i800 chipsets, called the ____, contains the I/O controller hub. | South Bridge |
| Throughput is sometimes called ____. | bandwidth |
| ____ buses have been improved several times; there are currently three major categories and within each category, several variations of the bus. | PCI |
| A(n) ____ boot involves turning on the power with the on/off switch. | hard |
| At the beginning of the boot drive (usually drive C) is the OS ____ record. | boot |
| For Windows XP, Ntldr is responsible for loading the OS, and is, therefore, called the ____. | boot loader program |
| The process of upgrading or refreshing the ROM BIOS chip is called ____ BIOS. | flashing |
| Some cases have ____, also called spacers, which 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. | standoffs |
| With any installation, remember the importance of using a ground strap (ground bracelet) to ground yourself when working inside a computer case to protect components against ____. | ESD |
| On the motherboard, the ____ controls power to the motherboard and must be connected for the PC to power up. | Power SW |
| Sometimes documentation marks pin 1 as a ____ pin in the diagram, rather than round like the other pins. | square |
| The ____ menu in BIOS setup allows you to configure automatic power-saving features for your system, such as suspend mode or a sleep state. | power |
| Most likely when you first install a hard drive or an operating system, you will want to have the BIOS attempt to first boot from a ____. | CD |
| Access to a computer can be controlled using a ____ password. | startup |
| The most reliable way to restore settings is to keep a written record of all the changes you make to ____. | CMOS RAM |
| A ____ drive has one, two, or more platters, or disks, that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard. | magnetic hard |
| The top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic hard drive have a(n) ____ that moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle. | read/write head |
| Each side, or surface, of one hard drive platter is called a ____. | head |
| Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive is called ____. | ReadyDrive |
| The total number of ____ on the drive determines the drive capacity. | sectors |
| ____ on a circuit board inside the drive housing is responsible for writing and reading data to these tracks and sectors and for keeping track of where everything is stored on the drive. | Firmware |
| During the ____ formatting process, you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use. | high-level |
| The ATA interface standards are developed by Technical Committee T13 and published by ____. | ANSI |
| ____ is a system BIOS feature that monitors hard drive performance, disk spin up time, temperature, distance between the head and the disk, and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail. | S.M.A.R.T. |
| The ____-conductor IDE cable has half the number of pins as it has wires. | 80 |
| ____ transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU. | DMA |
| ____ mode involves the CPU and is slower than DMA mode. | PIO |
| With ____, you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. | hot-swapping |
| External ____ is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire. | SATA |
| ____ is a standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral devices and the system bus. | SCSI |
| A technology that configures two or more hard drives to work together as an array of drives is called ____. | RAID |
| A drive ____ is a duplication of everything written to a hard drive. | image |
| With ____, two hard drives are configured as a single volume. | spanning |
| The first sector on the disk, called the boot sector or ____ record, contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used. | boot |
| When using an 80-conductor cable-select cable, the drive nearest the motherboard is the ____. | master |
| If you are mounting a hard drive into a bay that is too large, a ____ kit can help you securely fit the drive into the bay. | universal bay |
| Problems with a device can sometimes be solved by updating the ____ or firmware. | device drivers |
| Devices and their device drivers are managed using ____. | Device Manager |
| ____ systems and peripherals have the U.S. Green Star, indicating that they satisfy certain energy-conserving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). | Energy Star |
| To protect the data on a USB storage device while removing it, double-click the ____ icon in the notification area before removing the device. | Safely Remove Hardware |
| FireWire and i.Link are common names for another peripheral bus officially named ____. | IEEE 1394 |
| ____ supports speeds up to 400 Mbps and is sometimes called FireWire 400. | IEEE 1394a |
| ____ can use cables up to 100 meters (328 feet), and uses a 9-pin rectangular connector. | 1394b |
| IEEE 1394 uses ____ data transfer, meaning that data is transferred continuously without breaks. | isochronous |
| A serial port is provided by the motherboard or might be provided by an adapter card called a(n) ____ card. | I/O controller |
| ____ CRT monitors draw a screen by making two passes. | Interlaced |
| A(n) ____ monitor (also called a progressive monitor) draws the entire screen in one pass. | Noninterlaced |
| A ____ is an input device that uses a monitor or LCD panel as the backdrop for input options. | touch screen |
| A ____ device is an input device that inputs biological data about a person, which can be input data to identify a person's fingerprints, handprints, face, voice, eye, and handwritten signature. | biometric |
| Ports on the motherboard can be disabled or enabled in ____ setup. | BIOS |
| BIOS manages ____ lines that are used by a device to hail the CPU asking for data to be processed. | IRQ |
| The ____ assignments refer to the system resources a parallel port will use to manage a print job. | LPT |
| If you have an available eSATA external port, you can use a protective hard drive ____ that will house and protect a hard drive outside the computer case. | dock |
| A ____ plug is a tool used to test a serial, parallel, USB, network, or other port. | loop-back |
| If you are trained to open a monitor case to replace a fuse, unplug the monitor and wait at least ____ minutes before opening the case so that capacitors have completely discharged. | 80 |
| Chips sometimes loosen because of temperature changes; this condition is called ____. | chip creep |
| For laptops, you can adjust the brightness of the display using ____ keys. | function |
| The goal of ____ technology is to use sights, sounds, and animation to make computer output look as much like real life as possible. | multimedia |
| Computers store data digitally and ultimately as a stream of only two numbers: ____. | 0 and 1 |
| After the sound is recorded and digitized, many sound cards convert and compress the digitized sound to ____ format. | MP3 |
| MP3 sound files have a(n) ____ file extension. | .mp3 |
| A ____ card can turn your computer into a television. | TV tuner |
| A video ____ card lets you capture this video input and save it to a file on your hard drive. | capture |
| ____ are smooth and level areas on an optical disc. | Lands |
| ____ are recessed areas on the surface of an optical disc. | Pits |
| In order to read each sector on the spiral of a CD at a constant ____, the disc spins faster when the read-write head is near the center of the disc. | linear velocity |
| A single-sided, single-layer DVD can hold ____ GB. | 4.7 |
| A double-sided, dual-layer DVD can hold ____ GB. | 17 |
| ____ drives are a great method of keeping backups of data stored on your hard drive. | External hard |
| ____ is a common compression standard for storing photos. | JPEG |
| ____ is a set of standards that are used to represent music in digital form. | MIDI |
| A ____ provides slots for memory cards and can be an internal or external device. | media reader |
| For EIDE, there are four choices for drive installations: ____. | primary master, primary slave, secondary master, and secondary slave |
| When installing an optical drive, for a PATA interface set the jumper on the ____ of the drive. | rear |
| To prevent a CD, DVD, or BD from automatically playing when AutoPlay is enabled, hold down the ____ key when inserting a disc. | Shift |
| A CD can hold about ____ of data. | 700 MB |
| When burning a CD, DVD or BD, the hard drive needs some temporary holding space for the write process and should have at least ____ of free space. | 1 GB |
| If a disc gets stuck in the drive, use the ____ to remove it. | emergency eject hole |
| A motherboard ____________________ determines the size of the board and its features that make it compatible with power supplies, cases, processors, and expansion cards. | form factor |
| Beginning with the Intel i800 series of chipsets, a(n) ____________________ is used to connect buses. | hub |
| A(n) ____________________ is a command to the processor to wait for slower devices to catch up. | wait state |
| The CMOS battery on the motherboard is considered a(n) ____________________ replaceable unit. | field |
| If the startup password has been enabled and set in BIOS setup, the startup BIOS asks for the password during the ____________________ just before the BIOS begins searching for an OS. | boot |
| Track and sector markings are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called ____________________ formatting. | low-level |
| An extended partition can be divided into one or more ____________________ drives. | logical |
| To reduce the amount of electrical "noise," or interference, on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a(n) ____________________ resistor. | terminating |
| A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe, such as a hardware failure or power outage, so that data is not lost is known as ____________________. | fault tolerance |
| Each FAT entry lists how each ____________________ (or file allocation unit) on the disk is currently used. | cluster |
| Every I/O device is controlled by ____________________. | software |
| ____________________ ports are fast becoming the most popular ports for slower I/O devices such as printers, mice, keyboards, scanners, and a variety of other devices. | USB |
| Before you begin the installation, make sure the ____________________ provided with the device are written for the OS you are using. | drivers |
| ECP uses a(n) ____________________ channel. | DMA |
| A(n) ____________________ motherboard used with an Energy Saver monitor can be configured to go into standby or sleep mode after a period of inactivity. | Green |
| A(n) ____________________ standard is a standard generally accepted by the industry but not authorized by any official standards organization. | de facto |
| Full-sized data ____________________ for tape drives are 4 x 6 x 5/8 inches. | cartridges |
| A(n) ____________________ is a video camera that is used to capture digital video that can be used to feed live video on the Internet. | webcam, Web camera |
| Older and less expensive cases use ____________________ to secure the drive to the sides of the bay. | screws |
| An optical drive can be set so that when you insert a disc, software on the disc automatically executes, a feature called ____________________. | AutoPlay |
| Has 1366 pins that touch pads on the processor | LGA1366 or Socket B |
| Has 771 pins that touch pads on the processor | LGA771 or Socket J |
| Has 775 lands or pads | LGA775 or Socket T |
| Uses a dense micro PGA (mPGA) | Socket 478 |
| Has a 39 x 39 SPGA grid | Socket 423 |
| Key(s) to press during the boot process to access the AMI BIOS | Del |
| Key(s) to press during the boot process to access the Newer Phoenix BIOS | F2 or F1 |
| Key(s) to press during the boot process to access the Dell computers using Phoenix BIOS | Ctrl+Alt+Enter |
| The order in which the system tries to boot from certain devices | boot sequence |
| Has no moving parts | Solid state drive |
| Moves the read/write heads across the disk surfaces in unison | Actuator |
| Uses both solid state and magnetic technologies | Hybrid hard drive |
| A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives | Basic disk |
| The overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive | file system |
| The smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors | Cluster |
| A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files | FAT |
| Designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the older file system | NTFS |
| Speeds up access time by allowing blocks of data to be read from the drive at one time | Block mode |
| Has a maximum speed of 5.0 Gbps (gigabits per second) | SuperSpeed USB 3.0 |
| Has a maximum speed of 3.0 Gbps | eSATA-300 (eSATA Version 2) |
| Has a maximum speed of 1.2 Gbps or 800 Mbps (megabits per second) | 1394b (FireWire) |
| Has a maximum speed of 480 Mbps | Hi-Speed USB 2.0 |
| Has a maximum speed of 400 Mbps | 1394a (FireWire) |
| Has a maximum speed of 12 Mbps or 1.5 Mbps | Original USB (USB 1.1) |
| Has a maximum speed of 1.5 Mbps | Parallel |
| Has a maximum speed of 115.2 Kbps (kilobits per second) | Serial |
| Designed for peer-to-peer data transmission | IEEE 1394.3 |
| An expansion card with sound ports | Sound card |
| Sound ports embedded on a motherboard | Onboard sound |
| Sound on two channels | Stereo |
| Can be used to receive data from a video camera | FireWire input/output port |
| Round connectors used by coaxial cable | BNC |
| Port for a monitor | DVI |
| The second drive installed on the cable | Slave |
| The only drive on the cable | Master |
| Used for all hard drives. | SATA connections |
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