System Components
This firmware interface replaced BIOS.
What is UEFI?
Which common interface offers Plug-and-Play capabilities for Windows devices and supplies power for small peripherals?
What is USB?
These devices do not require a
system restart to connect or disconnect.
What are hot-swappable?
This is a compact memory module for laptops.
What is a Small Outline DIMM (SO-DIMM)?
Drives store files, which are organized into ______ that may have different security privileges.
What are folders?
This connects the CPU and system memory and is an important factor in performance.
What is a front side bus?
Widescreen (16:10), HD, 4K, and standard 4:3 are ways of describing this.
What is resolution?
This port is pink in color and accepts a 3.5mm jack.
What is a microphone audio port?
Internal HDDs mostly use this interface.
What is SATA (Serial ATA)?
This must be formatted with a file system before the OS can use it.
What is a partition?
Two passive cooling options that remove excess heat around a CPU.
What are heatsinks (or heat spreaders) and thermal paste?
This proprietary interface is widely used in consumer electronics and has enough bandwidth for high resolution. It is backward compatible with DVI-D.
What is HDMI?
This Windows menu allows selection of paper size for print jobs.
What is Printing Preferences?
Synchronous RAM offering two 64-bit transfers per clock cycle.
What is Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM?
Three extensions for image file types.
What are .jpg, .gif, .tiff,, .png, .bmp?
This expansion bus type has a bandwidth of 4 Gbps and is often used for graphics adapters.
What is PCIe x16?
This technology uses passive tags that respond when scanned by a reader. It is widely used for managing inventory.
What is RFID?
Three output file types for scanners.
What are image (.jpg, .tiff), PDF, OCR?
DDR4 SDRAM has a faster ____ than DDR3.
What is bus speed?
In this filepath, ___ is the root directory.
C:\
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\System32
What is C: ?
This kind of multiprocessing provides multiple CPU sockets on the motherboard and is usually a feature of server systems.
What is Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)?
This display interface allows daisy-chaining of monitors and uses a USB-C physical form. It is common on Macs.
What is Thunderbolt 3?
This is the path in Windows to configure dual monitors for an extended desktop.
What is: Go to Windows Settings
Select Display/Multiple Displays?
Two factors determining HDD performance.
Spin speed (RPM), access time, transfer rate
These three system folders come with the Windows OS.
What are Windows, Program Files, and Users?