A standardized specification of a motherboard is known as this.
What is a motherboard's form factor.
100
This memory cannot be changed and is a good place for the BIOS.
What is ROM.
100
These three items are considered Optical Media.
What are CD-ROMS, DVD-ROMS, and Blu-ray Discs.
100
This integrated circuit types defines the core functionality and capabilities of a motherboard.
What is the chipset.
200
What does POST stand for?
What is Power On Self Test
200
These four terms describe a motherboard's size and purpose.
What are ATX, Micro-ATX, ITX, and Mini-ITX.
200
This type of memory detects errors and fixes them on the fly.
What is ECC RAM.
200
These drives can be added or removed while the system is running.
What is hot swappable drives. (USB, Firewire, SATA etc)
200
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (abbr. as PCIe) is a high-speed, serial expansion bus designed as a replacement for these three things.
What are PCI, PCI-x, and AGP.
300
What does UEFI stand for and what does it replace?
What is Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and it replaces the legacy BIOS.
300
In computer architecture, this term describes a system of communication paths used to connect computer components and transfer data between them.
What is a "bus."
300
This memory should always be installed in exact pairs.
What is Multi-channel memory.
300
This high performing RAID structure had no redundancy and can fail if one drive fails.
What is RAID 0 - Striping.
300
A single-lane (x1) PCIe v2.x link offers maximum throughput of up to this speed.
What is 500MB/s.
400
What are TWO UEFI advantages?
What is it can boot from large GPT partitioned disks and includes a pre-boot environment.
400
A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is an example of what kind of bus?
What is a parallel expansion bus.
400
This type of RAM is synchronous with the system clock.
What is SDRAM.
400
This RAID structure has redundancy, high disk utilization, and won't fail if one drive is bad.
What is Raid 1 - Mirroring.
400
In PCIe architecture, a single full-duplex point-to-point serial communication path consisting of two pairs of wires (where one pair is used for transmitting data and the other pair for receiving data) is known as what?
What is a lane.
500
You can enable these security features in BIOS.
What is BIOS or user passwords, LoJack for laptops, full disk encryption, and secure boot.
500
These two motherboard slots enable installation of dedicated graphics controllers.
What are AGP and PCIe.
500
These two types of memory are not backwards compatible.
What is DDR2 and DDR3
500
This is an inexpensive and long term back up solution.
What is a tape drive.
500
A single-lane (x1) PCIe v3.x link offers maximum throughput of up to this speed.