Computing Devices
Physical components of a device such as screens, keyboards, wires, and chips are considered this.
What is hardware?
This computer component attaches to a chip that disperses heat and prevents overheating.
What is a heat sink?
This short-range wireless communication technology is used to connect peripherals such as wireless headphones, speakers, keyboards, and mice to a computer.
What is Bluetooth?
This is the most commonly used type of long-term storage in computing devices, especially in desktop systems.
What is hard disk drive (HDD)?
This is the first step in a standardized troubleshooting model?
What is identify the program?
These computing devices are modular and allow you to customize the system to do exactly what you want it to do.
What are desktop systems?
This large, flat computer component connects the important components of a computer, such as the CPU, RAM, and the BIO chip.
What is a motherboard?
This is the most commonly used type of connector that allows you to connect a variety of external devices.
What is the Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector?
Examples of this type of long term storage include DVD and Blu-Ray drives that use lasers to create tiny light and dark spots that represent one and zeros.
What is optical drive?
If your computer doesn't power on at all, spontaneously restarts, or fails during bootup, this piece of hardware is likely failing.
What is the power supply unit?
These computing systems have integrated keyboard and mouse functions and use batteries.
What are notebook systems?
This is considered the most important part of any modern computer system and it controls the other parts of the computer.
This connector is used to connect older monitors to the system and can be identified by its blue color and the three rows of five pins.
What is a Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector?
Newer desktop systems replace traditional internal hard disk drives with these much faster and more durable drives.
What are solid state devices (SSDs)?
If your computer doesn't boot up and only beeps or boots but the screen remains blank, it mis most likely experiencing this kind of error.
What is a memory error?
These computing devices are more mobile than any other type of computing device but are difficult to repair and hard to upgrade.
What are mobile devices?
This three step cycle is used by processors to execute instructions.
What is the fetch-execute cycle?
This network connector allows you to connect the system to a network.
What is a Registered Jack 45 (RJ-45) jack?
Typically, each storage device on a computer is called this which is the top-level folder, or directory, of a file.
What is a drive?
If your computer encounters an issue before a power-on self test this audible sound will occur.
What is a beep code?
A computer system specifically built to be operated by a gaming pad rather than a key board or mouse is also known by this name.
What is a gaming console?
This component is the communication system that allows data to be transferred between the components inside a computer.
What is BUS?
This interface is compatible with DisplayPort and is primarily used on Apple computers and can also provide DC power.
What is Thunderbolt interface?
If a folder exists on an NTFS partition, a user will need this permission to set a security permission on the folder.
What is full control?
To keep your computer running smoothly, a good guideline is to keep at least this much of your hard drive free.
What is 10 percent?