ITE - Chapter 3

The acronym DIME represents ____

A BIOS that can be reprogrammed using software is called ____.

Which cable can be run above a dropped ceiling, is twisted pair and capable of gigabit ethernet speeds

Which motherboard component maintains an accurate system time and date, even when the power is off.

The ability of a device to move data directly to and from RAM without going through the CPU is known as ____.

____ allows separate computer devices to communicate between each other without the need of going through the CPU.

Which of the following connectors should you use to connect your SATA hard drive to the motherboard?

What is the delay between the time of the data request and the time the data is available for output from memory?

The physical shape of a motherboard is referred to as the ____.

Which of the following is the most common method for removing RAM from a motherboard?

Which of the following are advantages of using fiber optic cabling for a network, as opposed to other types of cabling?

A __ is when the CPU goes into a temporary state of rest because of speed differences between the CPU and other devices.

Your motherboard has sockets for 184-pin DIMM RAM. Which type of RAM should you install?

You turn your computer on and instantly, you see smoke and smell a strange odor coming from the computer. First action?

Your computer has a grinding noise, frequent error messages, and your computer occasionally freezes up. Problem?

Port and memory addresses are expressed as ____.

A collection of conductors that run from device to device across the motherboard is referred to as a(n) ____.

In a typical computer system, which component has the highest data transfer speed?

Which program will run first after the PC power is switched on?

What is an advantage of DDR4 over DDR3, assuming the same operating frequency

You are trying to push a memory module into a memory slot, but it is not seating properly.What is the MOST likely issue?

The motherboard bus system uses ____ to connect the high speed CPU to slower speed devices

Which expansion bus architecture is used exclusively for display support?

Which motherboard component controls communication between the CPU, memory, and high-speed graphics bus.

You build a new system that supports 16 GB of memory. The MOST important when building the computer is _____

Which motherboard component houses the PCI bus controllers and communicates with the super I/O controller.

When booting your workstation, you hear a series of audible beeps, and the system locks up. Your 1st troubleshoot step?

During installation, which of the following objects should you place between the motherboard and the system case?

The ____ controls the higher speed communications portion of the motherboard bus system.

Your computer cannot keep all the necessary applications open at the same time. What should you upgrade?

Which of the following cable types would work BEST to connect a laptop computer to a small conference room LED TV

Which motherboard component allows additional features and capabilities to be added to the motherboard.

Which two IRQ settings are connected together?

Which one of the following duties is the BIOS not designed to perform?

____ technology automatically assigns system resources such as DMA, interrupts, memory, and I/O port addresses.