EET250 Unit 1 Review Assignment

Chapters 2 (Pages 30-33), 3, 6

Student name: Derek Carter

Date: 02/25/2016

1. Any electrical component not in a PC needs to be stored in an anti-static bag.
2. All motherboards use multipurpose expansion slots that enable you to add expansion cards.

3. Parallel ports use a 25-pin female DB connector.
4. Sound cards use 1/8 inch audio jack or S/PDIF connectors.
5. A video card uses a 15-pin female VGA (Video Graphics Array) connector or the unique, video-only digital video interface (DVI) connector.
6. The power supply takes standard 110-volt AC power (United States) and converts it into 12-volt, 5-volt, and 3.3-volt DC power. (See Ch-10 Page 378)

A. 3.3-volt

C. 6-volt

B. 4.5-volt

D. 6.5-volt

 

7. A gigabyte, or GB, is equal to how many MB?

A. 1004

C. 1240

B. 1024

D. 1420

 

8. RJ-11 jacks are almost exclusively used for ____.

A. modems

C. monitors

B. printers

D. scanners

 

9. What can cause damage to components through the discharge of static electricity?

A. DSE

C. ESE

B. ESD

D. SED

 

10. NICs usually have a single ____ connection.

A. USB

C. RJ-45

B. RJ-11

D. DIN

 

11. You rarely see a DB connector with more than ______ pins or sockets.

A. 9

C. 15

B. 25

D. 40

 

12. How many devices can be supported by USB on a computer? (See Ch-20 pages 881,891)

A. 2

C. 64

B. 16

D. 127

 

13. Which connector type has a slight D-shape?

A. BNC

C. DIN

B. DB

D. RJ

 

14. How should electronic components (such as a RAM stick) be transported from one place to another?
A. carried in an anti-static bag
B. carried while connected to an anti-static wrist strap
C. carried in a lint-free cloth
D. held by the contacts

 

15. What unit measures clock speed?

A. megahertz

C. bits

B. kilobytes

D. bytes

 

16. A storage/memory system is needed to save programs and data.
17. Intel Processors currently use a package type called Land Grid Array (LGA)

18. The connection between the CPU, MCC, and the RAM is called the Frontside Bus

19. The communication device of the CPU is called External Data Bus (EDB)

 

 

20. The CPU package used in AMD is the Pin Grid Array (PGA) package.

21. A Dual-core CPU has two execution units.

 

22. What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?

A. 3 GHz

C. 5 GHz

B. 4 GHz

D. 8´

 

23. What is used to hold a CPU?

A. ZIF

C. ZAP

B. ZAF

D. ZOO

 

24. Which of the following stores the data that the CPU actively uses?

A. CD

C. hard drive

B. floppy diskette

D. RAM

 

25. Which line of CPU of AMD is a direct competitor of Intel?

A. Pentium

C. Classic Athlon

B. Thunderbird

D. Sec-2

 

26. 1 megabyte is equivalent to ____ bytes.

A. 1,048,476

C. 10,048,576

B. 1,048,576

D. 10,480,576

 

27. What is a benefit of a smaller process?

A. faster

C. cooler

B. hotter

D. slower

 

28. What cache was historically on the motherboard, but now often comes on the CPU?

A. L1

C. motherboard cache

B. L2

D. CPU cache

 

29. Many of today’s processors are measured by this process. Which of the following is a valid term for the process?

A. 45 nanometer

C. 95 watts

B. internal

D. fast

 

30. Which CPU manufacturer has “Athlon” brand?

A. AMD

C. Intel

B. Motorola

D. TI