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1) The BIOS is a set of software programs responsible for booting the computer which is written once

during manufacturing and can never be changed. True or false?


True
False
2) Which of the following allows users to add devices that do not come with a standard personal
computer package?
motherboard
riser cards
expansion cards
floppy drives
3) Which of the following types of electricity represents current fluctuates constantly between positive
and negative endpoints?
DC
AC
Watts
Power
4) Which of the following components controls all activities within the personal computer?
Motherboard
RAM
CPU
hard drive
5) Which of the following refers to small areas of memory with in the CPU uses holding areas processing
data and instructions?
ALU
Registers
SRAM
Control Units
6) Which of the following refers to the concept of a CPU running over its rated speed capabilities?
hyper threading
multiprocessing
overclocking
throttling
7) Which of the following refers to the concept of a CPU conserving power by lowering the amount of
processing that is occurring during non-peak times?
hyper threading
multiprocessing
overclocking
throttling
8) Which of the following CPU chip types of the most common for the latest Intel chips?
PGA
LGA
SPGA
FC-PGA
9) A memory chip for DDR2 will most commonly come in which of the following chip form factors?
168 pin DIMM
184 pin DIMM
240 pin DIMM
144 pin SO-DIMM
10) Motherboard has a socket A CPU connector. Which of the following types of CPUs would fit in this
connector?
Athlon
Pentium
Pentium 4
Xeon
11) Which bus within the personal computer is divided into the control, address, and data bus portions?
Universal Serial Bus
Backside bus
Expansion bus
System bus
12) Which of the following is used to provide memory control functionality interacting with both CPU
and main system memory?
FSB
Northbridge chip
Southbridge chip
USB root hub
13) Which of the following components that makes up a motherboard is the primary mechanism for
communicating with expansion devices?
FSB
Northbridge chip
Southbridge chip
SATA controller
14) Which of the following components is used to provide expansion slots in a horizontal fashion for
smaller desktop style cases?
PCIe
riser cards
daughter boards
motherboards
15) Which of the following is the latest form factor designed to support ATOM and i3-i7 Intel CPUs?
BTX
ATX
Mini-ATX
ITX
16) What does CMOS stand for?
Complementary Metal Oxide Conductor
Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-Conductor
Complimentary Memory of System
Competition Memory for the System
17) Which of the following does CMOS used in order to retain the information contained in CMOS RAM?
Power supply
CMOS battery
Motherboard jumpers
Uninterruptible power supply
18) If you are booting the system and receiving a non-system disk error when a USB flash drive is
connected to the computer, which of the following should you adjust in the BIOS?
hard drive settings
motherboard port settings
boot sequence
boot devices
19) The tests that the BIOS performs while booting the personal computer is known as what?
CPU
CMOS
POST
POTS
20) Which of the following keys should you press to enter the BIOS setup routine on your personal
computer?
F2
Delete
Esc
The key specified by the BIOS manufacturer
21) Which of the following types of connectors was only used in systems prior to the ATX motherboard?
P1
P8 and P9
4/8 pin 12V
PCIe 6/8 pin
22) How many pins are on the connector used for power in modern motherboards?
20
24
16
8
23) Would term is used to describe a high-speed memory location that is typically a part of the CPU chip
itself?
Registers
Cache
Additional cores
Multithreading
24) Which of the following options determines the frequency at which a CPU will run?
CPU clock speed
CPU multiplier
FSB clock speed
BIOS
25) Which of the following processor sockets is most likely used by high end Intel I7 processors?
775
1156
1155
2011
26) Which component is used to draw heat away from the CPU and into a fan assembly?
thermal paste
cooling unit
heatsink
refrigeration
27) Which of the following is the best description of the double data rate RAM or DDR?
Dynamic RAM synchronized with the system clock
dynamic RAM synchronized with the system clock and transferring on the rising and falling edge of the
clock cycle
static RAM synchronized with the system clock and transferring on the rising and falling edge of the
clock cycle
static RAM not synchronized with the system clock
28) What is the bandwidth for PC3200 - DDR 400 memory?
3.2 Mbps
3.2 Gbps
400 Gbps
400 Mbps
29) What is the bandwidth that DDR2-533 operates at?
4.2 Gbps
3.2 Gbps
2.7 Gbps
6.4 Gbps
30) DDR 400 has a bandwidth of 3.2 Gbps but what is the frequency that it runs at?
400 MHz
200 MHz
100 MHz
None of the above
31) DDR 3 SDRAM uses dual in-line memory modules (DIMM) with how many pins?
184
240
224
204
32) Which of the following is a standard interface for firmware in the PC and designed to replace the
system BIOS?
NVRAM
CMOS
ROM
UEFI
33) Which of the following is memory that will not lose its content even when power to the computer
system is removed?
CMOS
SDRAM
DRAM
DDR SDRAM
34) Where would you go in order to change the boot sequence so that you could boot to a DVD drive
before booting to the hard drive?
Control Panel
Jumper settings on the motherboard
Command prompt
BIOS/UEFI settings
35) Which of the following values represents the relationship between the speed of the CPU and that of
the motherboard or system bus?
Multiplier
Correlation
Relation
Division
36) Which of tithe following standards has been adopted by many vendors which requires the operating
system to check the integrity of system files before allowing the boot process to complete?
PXE Boot
Safe Boot
Secure Boot
Lo jack
37) Which of the following is the name of the diagnostic test that is performed by the BIOS/UEFI during
the boot process?
CHS
POST
PRE
CMOS
38) Which of these is not a common output voltage for a power supply?
12v
5v
7.5v
3.3v
39) Which of the following form factors on the motherboard is the smallest and is primarily used for
mobile devices?
LPX
Mini-LPX
ITX
Pico-ITX
40) Which of the following memory types are characterized by not losing data when power is removed?
volatile
non volatile
static
dynamic

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