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Feb 20th Formative Assessment
Feb 20th Formative Assessment
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1
Which of the following should be recommended for cooling a high-end gaming PC?
Additional Case fans
Passive Cooling
Lower Wattage PSU
Power Saving NIC
2
On which storage device should media be read sequentially?
Solid State Drive
Hard Drive
Optical Drive
Tape Drive
3
Which of the following statements is true?
Components of a pc connect either directly or indirectly to the motherboard
The lines on a motherboard also function for cooling purposes
A 'systemboard' is an unusual variant of motherboard
The motherboard must always be in a horizontal position
4
What type of PSU comes with all of the connector cables hard-wired onto them?
Semi-Modular
Non-Modular
Unmodular
Modular
5
What is the best efficiency rating a PSU can have?
80 Plus Gold
80 Plus Titanium
80 Plus Platinum
80 Plus
6
Name two common interfaces for external hard drives?
Serail and Parallel
Modems and Hubs
USB and eSATA
IDE and SATA
7
What is the term applied collectively to the northbridge and Southbridge?
BIOS
CMOS
CPU
Chipset
8
Which statement most accurately describes Northbridge?
A component that saves configuration settings
A component that stores the CPU's most frequently used commands
A chipset component that connects indirectly to the CPU's front side bus
A Chipset component that controls communications between the CPU and buses
9
Name a common communications adapter card used to connect PC's to a LAN?
usb
Serial
NIC
Modem
10
What type of memory is volatile and loses its contents when a computer is powered down?
CMOS
BIOS
ROM
RAM
11
What is the maximum address space of a CPU with a 64-bit address bus?
128GB
16ExB
4TB
8GB
12
RAID = 'R....... Array of Independent Disks'. Fill in the missing word beginning with 'R'?
Redundant
Rapid
Realtime
Recorded
13
For the best performance, a high end graphics card should be installed in which of the following slots?
PCIe x 16
PCI X 2
PCI
AGP 4X
14
Which of the following Technologies is best for the attachment of external SATA based drives?
Firewire
USB
PATA
eSATA
15
Which of the following describes a motherboard form factor?
ATX
The size and colour of the motherboard
The processor the motherboard supports
The type, location, size of components that will work with the motherboard
16
Which storage device can be found internally and externally?
Floppy Drive
Optical Drive
Tape Drive
Hard Drive
17
What Intel CPU technology allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core?
Core
Cache Memory
Hyperthreading
Microcode
18
What is RAID 0 also known as?
None of the above
Striping
Striping with Parity
Mirror Set
19
Which of the following most accurately describes a function of the CPU’s cache memory?
To provide temporary storage of data that is required to complete a task
To anticipate a CPU's data requests for fast retrieval
To store instructions used by the currently running application
To store a device's most basic operating instructions
20
Which type of local bus connector designed for video adapters was phased out in favor of PCIe?
PCI
NIC
AGP
USB
21
Which of the following is a process run by the BIOS at bootup?
Pre-boot authentication
POST
MBR
CMOS
22
What is the pupose of applying thermal paste between the heatsink and the top of the CPU chip?
Acts as a fire retardant in case the CPU overheats
Keeps the heatsink in place on the CPU
Helps the transfer of energy between heatsink and CPU
Makes the heatsink easier to remove when replacing the CPU
23
Which of the following is not an example of a magnetic mass storage device?
Floppy Drive
Hard Drive
Optical Drive
Tape Drive
24
Which of the following output DC voltages does not appear on a standard computer Power Supply Unit?
24V
12V
3.3V
5V
25
Which of the following features of a CPU socket is designed to make installation of a CPU easier?
Plug and Play
LGA (Land Grid Array)
Heatsinks
Lower Latency
26
What system component saves data for re-use even after the computer is shut down and restarted?
Cache
Storage Device
CPU
Serial Bus
27
Which of the following describes the port displayed?
VGA
Paralellel
DVI
Serial
28
What component in a CPU is responsible for all logical and mathematical operations?
Control Unit
Processor Bus
Processor
ALU
29
What is ASCII?
Parallel communications protocol
A table of characters represented by binary numbers
A standard for keyboards in different languages
Serial communications protocol
30
Which CPU technology places the pins on the motherboard instead of the chip?
LGA
SECC
SPGA
PGA Incorrect
