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63 Cards in this Set
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Serial & Parallel ports are technically known as
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DataBus ports (DB)
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Serial Ports come in ____ and ____ pin varieties.
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9, 25
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Serial Ports transport data ___ ____ at a time.
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1 bit. (smallest unit of data in the pc world.)
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The maximum throuput speed of a serial port is ___.
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115 kilobits/sec (Kbps)
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What is the acronym for Input/output.
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I/O
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What is the acronym for Interrupt Request?
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IRQ
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Serial Port 1's address is?
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3f8 and IRQ 4 (COM 1)
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(Rare) Serial Port 2's assigned address is?
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2f8 IRQ 3 (COM 2)
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CMOS = _____ and it does what?
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Complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor / stores CMOS info.
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Parallel ports have ____ pins?
(____ on the top row, and ____ on the bottom row) |
25
13 12 |
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Parallel ports can be used on _____, ____, ____ and _____.
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External CD rom drives, zip drives, and scanners.
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Parallel ports traditionally get I/O address of ?
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378 and IRQ7 (LPT1) (modern mobos can be changed.)
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Parallel ports have a total throughput speed of about ___,___ bytes/sec
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150,000 bytes/sec or 150 Kbps.
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Parallel ports transfer data _____ bits or _____ byte(s) at a time.
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8 bits
1 byte (8 bits = 1 byte) |
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A 25 pin SERIAL port is (sex?)
A 25 pin PARALLEL port is (sex?) |
SERIAL is ALWAYS male.
PARALLEL is ALWAYS female. |
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Parallel cable connectors are always (sex?)
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MALE
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A keyboard plugs into a ______. (Often called an AT-style connector)
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5 pin DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm.
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A keyboard plugs into a _____. (commonly called a PS/2 connector)
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6 pin mini-DIN
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Most PC's have a ____ mini-DIN connector for the keyboard and a ____ mini-DIN for the mouse. (colors)
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Purle = Keyboard
Green = Mouse |
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Keyboards are assigned the base I/O address of?
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60H (h designates hexadecimal) and IRQ1
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The green mouse port and the purple keyboard port (both PS/2's) are interchangeable. (T/F).
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False
The do plug in... but don't work. |
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CRT is an acronym for _____.
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Cathode Ray Tube (monitor)
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CRTs connects to your cpu using a _____ pin connector.
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15 pin DB (3 rows of 5) usually black.
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VGA, SVGA, XGA monitors all have the DB connector with ____ pins in ____ rows and is (sex).
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15
3 female |
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LCD
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Liquid Crystal Display
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LCD monitors use a specially keyed ____ pin called a _____ ______ ______.
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25
Digital Visual Interface (DVI) |
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The DVI has ____ pins in a ___ row by ____ columns.
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24 pins in a 3x8 configuration
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DVI comes in varieties such as _____ (DVI-A) and ______ (DVI-D).
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Analog
Digital |
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TFT = ____
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Thin film transistor
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The most common LCD monitors use a technology called _____.
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Thin film transistor.
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Audio Port Colors
Speaker Microphone Input (Line-in) |
Green
Pink Blue |
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S/PDIF
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Sony/Phillips Digital Interface
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Most PCs have an integrated female __-__ port for connecting joysticks or other game controllers.
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DB-15
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MIDI/JOYSTICK connectors have pins arrayed in __ rows, with ___ on top and ___ on bottom.
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15
8 7 |
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A 15-pin DB connector can be used for both ____ devices and ________.
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MIDI
JOYSTICKS |
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PC modem ports look exactly like telephone jacks and use a standard ____-wire __-__ connectors to secure the cable.
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2-wire
RJ-11 |
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NIC
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Network Interface Card
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NICs come in 3 varieties:
an ___ wire ___ port, a ____ port for (older) coazial cable networks and some have both. |
eight/RJ-45
BNC |
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BNC ports look similar to an RG6 port for cable, but the cable is secured, how?
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With a twist of the connector.
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RJ-45 ports are _____ compared to RJ-11 ports.
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wider
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NICs older than 10 years may use a __ pin Attachment Unit Interface (AUI)
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15
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A BNC port resemble a cable port for your tv. (T/F)
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True (Similar but not exact)
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AUI =
and resemble MIDI/Joystick ports with __ pins on the top row and __ on the bottom. |
Attachment Unit Interface
8 7 |
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AUI ports and MIDI/Joystick ports are interchangeable (T/F)
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False they are both 8 pins on top & 7 on bottom but are not interchangeable.
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IEEE 1394
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aka Firewire
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Type A of a USB cable plugs into a ________________ and is ______ in shape.
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USB port on your PC or Hub.
Rectangular. |
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Type B of a USB cable plugs into a ______________ and is _________ in shape.
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device
square |
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All window operating systgems from Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) support USB technology. (T/F)
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True
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_________ __ does not support USB. But windows 2000 and XP handle it very well.
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Windows NT
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USB is supported by all windows OS after 95 OSR 2 but is not supported by the original release of 95 or NT.
(T/F) |
True
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USB device are ___-______ which means you can connect or disconnect them anytime without powering down your PC.
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Hot-swappable
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How many devices (USB) can you daisy-chain while using only 1 IRQ address.
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127
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IEEE 1394 technology can be referred to as
______ by Apple ______ by Sony, or ______ by Texas Instruments |
FireWire (apple)
iLink (sony) Lynx (TI) (All refer to IEEE 1394 tech) |
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The original spec. for FireWire 1394a calls for data transfers up to ___ Mbps.
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400
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Speeds up to _____ Mbps are possible for FireWirea based on the design specs.
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1600 Mbps.
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IEEE 1394b is capable of speeds up to ____ Mbps.
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800 Mbps.
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You can daisy-chain ___ firewire devices together using only 1 IRQ and 1 Direct memory Access channel.
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63
DMA = Direct Memory Access |
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DMA
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Direct Memory Access
(firewire term/channel) |
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You can connect up to ____ FireWire buses, which hypothetically means you could connect __,___ devices to a single PC.
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1023
64,449 |
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SCSI is pronounced as
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Skuzzy
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SCSI devices have a variety of interfaces (4).
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SCSI-1
SCSI-2 Ultra SCSI Wide Ultra SCSI |
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The most common port for SCSI is a ____ pin (sex) port.
You may see a ___ or ___ pin ports on some devices. |
50
Female 68 25 |
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Data throughput on SCSI varies from around __ Mbps for early versions to __-__ Mbps for current versions to ___ Mbps and beyond for latest versions.
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5
40-80 320 |