Key Terms
All About Motherboards
Networking Types, Devices, and Cabling
Connecting to and Setting Up a Network
Supporting Notebooks
100
The AMD technology that allows each logical processor within the processor package to handle an individual thread in parallel with other threads being handled by other processors within the package.
What is Hyper-Transport technology
100
A socket that uses a small lever to apply even force when you install the processor into the socket.
What is zero insertion force
100
A network configuration that uses a centralized device such as a switch or hub to manage traffic on the network.
What is star network
100
Used to find computers on subnets, an intranet, or on the Internet.
What is IP address
100
A computer that has the monitor and computer case built together and uses components that are common to both a notebook and a desktop computer.
What is all-in-one computer
200
Allows you to connect and disconnect a device while the system is running
What is hot-swapping
200
The technology used first by the Intel X58 chipset for communication between the chipset and the processor using 16 serial lanes similar to that used by PCI Express. Replaced the 64-bit wide Front Side Bus used by previous chipsets.
What is QuickPath Interconnect
200
A connection used by satellites that requires no obstruction from mountains, trees, and tall buildings from the satellite dish to the satellite.
What is line-of-sight connectivity
200
The small group of local networks when several networks are tied together in a subsystem of the larger intranet. In TCP/IP Version6, one or more links that have the same 64 bits in the first part of the IP address (called the prefix).
What is subnet
200
Includes one or more variations of a PC Card to add memory to a notebook or provide ports for peripheral devices. For example, modern cards, network cards for wired or wireless network, sound cards, SCSI host adapters, FireWire controllers, USB controllers, flash memory adapter, TV tuner, and hard disks.
What is PCMCIA card
300
Any private network that uses TCP/IP protocols. A large enterprise might support an intranet that is made up of several local networks.
What is intranet
300
A line on a bus that is dedicated to timing the activities of components connected to it. It provides a continuous pulse that other devices use to time themselves.
What is system clock
300
A TCP/IP protocol and an application that provides voice communication over a network.
What is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
300
In TCP/IP Version4, each of the four numbers in an IP address separated by periods and can be any number from 0 to 255, making a total of about 4.3 billion IP addresses.
What is octet
300
A secondary battery that fits on the bottom of a notebook to provide additional battery charge time.
What is sheet battery
400
Two wires that stick up side by side on the motherboard or other device and are used to hold configuration information. the jumper is considered closed if a cover is over the wires, and open if the cover is missing.
What is jumper
400
The latest evolution of PCI, which is not backward-compatible with earlier PCI slots and cards.
What is PCI Express
400
A device used to test a port in a computer or other device to make sure the port is working and might also the throughput or speed of the port.
What is loopback plug
400
A server that gives an IP address to a computer when it first attempts to initiate a connection to the network and requests an IP address.
What is DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol)
400
That portion of the chipset hub that connects slower I/O buses (for example, PCI bus) to the system bus
What is South Bridge
500
A broadband telephone line that can carry data at about five times the speed of regular telephone lines. Two channels (telephone numbers) share a single pair of wires. Replaced by DSL
What is ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
500
A plate installed on the rear of a computer case that provides holes for I/O ports coming off the motherboard.
What is I/O shield.
500
A cable used to connect a computer to a switch or other network device.
What is straight-through cable
500
One host sends messages to multiple hosts, such as when the host transmits a video conference over the Internet.
What is multicasting
500
A type of dynamic volume used for two or more hard drives that writes to the disks evenly rather than filling up allotted space on one and then moving on to the next.
What is striped volume
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