The AT board uses two power connections, the ____ connector and the ____ connector.
What is P8, P9?
100
MicroATX reduces the total cost of a system by ____.
What are:
- reducing the number of I/O slots on the motherboard
- reducing the power supplied to the board
- allowing for a smaller case size
100
The first ATX power supplies and motherboards use a single power connector called the ____ connector.
What is P1?
100
Using the ____ feature, an OS, such as Windows 2000/XP or Windows 98, can turn off the power to a system after the shutdown procedure is done.
What is soft power?
200
____ allows for maximum flexibility in the design of system cases and boards and therefore can be a good choice for custom systems; it is used in slimline and all-in-one cases.
What is Mini-ATX?
200
The ____ form factor was designed by Intel for flexibility and can be used by everything from large tower systems to those ultrasmall systems that sit under a monitor.
What is BTX?
200
____ and Mini-____ form factors were originally developed by Western Digital for low-end personal computer motherboards and are used with low-profile cases.
What is LPX?
200
A riser card is also called a ____ card.
What is daughter?
200
____ backplanes contain no circuits other than bus connectors and some buffer and driver circuits.
What is Active?
300
____ backplanes contain no circuitry at all; the circuits are all on a mothercard, also called a CPU card.
What is Passive?
300
The classic case with four drive bays and around six expansion slots that sits on your desktop doing double duty as a monitor stand is called a ____ case.
What is desktop?
300
A ____ occurs when uncontrolled electricity flows from the hot line to the neutral line or from the hot line to ground.
What is short?
300
A ____ is an electronic device that can serve as a gate or switch for an electrical signal and can amplify the flow of electricity.
What is transistor?
300
A ____ is an electronic device that can hold an electrical charge for a period of time and can smooth the uneven flow of electricity through a circuit.
What is capacitor?
400
A ____ is a semiconductor device that allows electricity to flow in only one direction.
What is diode?
400
A ____ is an electronic device that limits the amount of current that can flow through it.
What is resistor?
400
Temporary voltage reductions are called ____.
What is sags?
400
____ systems and peripherals have the U.S. Green Star, indicating that they satisfy certain energy-conserving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What is Energy Star?
400
____ are materials, such as glass or ceramic, that resist the flow of electricity.
What is Insulators?
500
Used for portable computers that have all the components of a desktop computer
What is notebook case?
500
A measure of electrical “pressure” differential
What is volt?
500
A measure of electrical power
What is Watt?
500
A measure of resistance to electricity
What is ohm?
500
The work or energy required to produce one watt of power in one second