A microchip on PC motherboards (or, in newer PC's is inside the CPU) that is connected directly to the CPU and thus responsible for tasks that require the highest performance.
What is the Northbridge?
100
In classful addressing these tell us what the numbers in the first octet of the IP Address are:
0-126
128-191
192-223
What are Class A, B, and C?
100
Older PCMCIA and the newer express cards /34 and /54 are examples of these.
What are expansion cards?
100
Clean:
This is the step in which an electrically neutral soft plastic blade cleans any excess toner from the photoreceptor (drum) and deposits it into a waste reservoir, and a discharge lamp removes the remaining charge from the photoreceptor (drum).
What is the final step of the laser printing process?
100
While we are working with hardware, this can damage computer components.
What is a ESD (Electrostatic Discharge)?
200
Implements the slower capabilities of the motherboard in a chipset computer architecture.
Handles all of a computer's I/O functions and is not directly connected to the CPU, but instead connects to it via the other main chip in the chipset.
What is the Southbridge?
200
127.0.0.1
What is the Loopback address?
200
A device used to add more ports to a laptop.
What is a Port Replicator?
200
A type of printer that uses print wires that strike the paper through an ink ribbon to create images. This is also the type of printer that can use Tractor Feed paper.
What is Dot-Matrix or Impact printer?
200
A device used to prevent the loss of power.
What is a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply)?
300
A type of computer data storage (usually RAM) that can detect and correct the most common kinds of internal data corruption.
Used in computers where data corruption cannot be tolerated under any circumstances, such as for scientific or financial computing.
What is ECC Memory?
300
169.254.x.x
What is APIPA (Automatic Private Internet Protocol Address)?
300
A device used to add functionality (like extra battery and/or graphics, external monitor, keyboard/mouse, ports). Usually plugs into the bottom of the laptop.
What is a Docking Station?
300
This is the name of the step in the laser printing process where the toner bonded with the paper.
What is Fusing?
300
A device used to protect against power spikes.
What is a Surge Protector?
400
A data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drives into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.
What is RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)?
400
A cable jacketed with a fire-retardant plastic. Used for runs through parts of a building that can facilitate air circulation for HVAC systems, space between the structural floor and the dropped ceiling or under a raised floor.
What is Plenum?
400
Used to power the backlight in an LCD screen, by converting DC to AC.
What is the Inverter?
400
This is the step in the laser printing process where the laser draws the image onto the drum, changing the charge on the drum so that the toner will be attracted to the image drawn on it by the laser.
What is Exposing?
400
This is the liquid used to safely clean an LCD monitor.
What is Water?
500
RAID Levels:
0
1
5
10
What are the RAID Level numbers for Striping, Mirroring, Striping w/ Parity, Mirroring then Striping?
The hard drive, RAM, Wireless card, Keyboard, and Monitor are the most common examples of these.
What are upgrade-able or replaceable parts?
500
After installing a maintenance kit in a laser printer, you must do this in order for the printer to properly inform you when to replace the parts again.
What is "Reset the Page Count"?
500
The chronological documentation or paper trail, showing the seizure, custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of physical or electronic evidence.