Pc Upgrade Test 3

Front 1

Parity Bit

Back 1

Ninth bit can be even or odd

Front 2

Diff between 40 and 80 pin

Back 2

40 had 40 pins and 40 wires 80 has 40 pins and 80 wires

Front 3

How to measure speed of a memory module

Back 3

The data path width or measured in MHz or PC rating

Front 4

Method to change settings on motherboard

Back 4

BIOS

Front 5

How to tell if memory is new or refurbished

Back 5

check dates on it or it should have a polished reflective surface

Front 6

Head

Back 6

one side of a hard drive platter

Front 7

Sector

Back 7

512 byte segments

Front 8

Cylinder

Back 8

All tracks equal distance from the center

Front 9

File system

Back 9

Overall structure an OS uses to name store and organize files on a drive

Front 10

First place to boot up

Back 10

Master boot

Front 11

Cluster

Back 11

Smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file, one or more sectors

Front 12

Where to manage I/O devices

Back 12

Device Manager

Front 13

Firewire IEEE 1394

Back 13

similar to usb serial transmission of data and hot pluggable

Front 14

USB

Back 14

Most popular port 2 wires for data two for power original,hispeed, superspeed

Front 15

Parallel

Back 15

Transmit at 8 bits at a time SPP one direction flow EPP and ECP bidirectional flow

Front 16

Serial

Back 16

Transmits in single bits DB9 and DB25

Front 17

Energy star

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Green standards satisfy U.S conservation of energy

Front 18

Popular way to cool while overclocking

Back 18

Liquid cooling

Front 19

memory error

Back 19

General protection fault errors GPF

Front 20

Static Vs Dynamic

Back 20

Static keeps its memory as long as it has a power supply while dynamic loses its memory rapidly and is refreshed very rapidly

Front 21

What's an I/O device

Back 21

Internal or external such as sound or network cards or mouses and keyboards

Front 22

Two major types of hard drives

Back 22

Solid state drive SSD and magnetic

Front 23

Chip Creep

Back 23

Chips loosen because of temperature change

Front 24

Whats RIMM

Back 24

Direct Rambus memory module every slot must be filled no new motherboards built for these 16 bit 184 pin or 32 bit 232 pin

Front 25

240 pin DDR3 DIMM

Back 25

fastest triple or dual channel supported

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240 pin DDR2

Back 26

Dual or single channel

Front 27

184 pin DDR

Back 27

dual or single channel

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168 pin SDRAM

Back 28

2 notches

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RIMM

Back 29

184 pins two notches

Front 30

72 pin SIMM

Back 30

must be installed two modules two memory

Front 31

30 pin SIMM

Back 31

must be installed 4 modules

Front 32

4 major processor groups

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Core, Pentium, celeron and atom

Front 33

Instructions on Motherboard and hard drive

Back 33

BIOS

Front 34

Whats the temperature supposed to be inside the case

Back 34

90-110 F

Front 35

Caches L1, L2 and L3

Back 35

RAM thats holds instructions that the memory controller anticipates the the processor will need next

Front 36

Back side Bus

Back 36

Connects the processor to internal memory cache

Front 37

Front side bus

Back 37

Send intructions out 64 data bit path

Front 38

Speed

Back 38

Processor frequency MHz or GHz

Front 39

To be able to predict if HD is going bad

Back 39

S.M.A.R.T

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Different types of formatting for HD

Back 40

FAT32, NFTS

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RAID

Back 41

Configures two or more hard drives to act together

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Who oversees ATA standards

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SATA-IO

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Where to find Motherboard temp

Back 43

BIOS

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What to look for in a display

Back 44

Refresh rate CRT or LCD Pixel rate native resolution

Front 45

Biometric device

Back 45

Measures a human part like fingerprint or eye biological data