All About
the Board
the Board
This is a connector that is a group of pins sticking up on the motherboard
What is a header?
This is memory modules on the motherboard that contain microchips used to temporarily hold data and programs while the CPU processes them.
What is RAM?
This is a logical division of a storage device (e.g. a hard disk drive or solid-state drive). Before you create this, the drive must first be initialized.
What is a partition?
This is an open-source operating system. It is a major player in computer networking and plays a vital role on servers, desktops, and even mobile devices.
What is Linux?
This attribute hides a file within the file system so that users who do not have access to its specific filename cannot view or access it.
What is Hidden (H)?
This connects the processor to the motherboard and has a mechanism to hold the processor in place.
What is a socket?
This is a mechanism in Windows that automatically manages the swapping of data between physical memory and the hard disk.
What is Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)?
This is a computer bus technology used to connect host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disks. It is primarily designed for the transfer of data from a hard disk.
What is Serial ATA (SATA)?
This is a proprietary closed-source, operating system designed by Apple, Inc.
What is MacOS?
As a user you are allowed the following actions if you have this Permission: Ownership, Read, Write, Create, Delete, and Change permissions.
What is Full Control?
What is SATA?
This is a Windows 10 and 11 utility used to test memory
What is Memory Diagnostics?
This is a flash device with a storage capacity similar to a small hard drive. They are faster than magnetic hard drives and have no moving parts.
What is a solid-state drive (SSD)?
This is the bar at the bottom of a Windows desktop. It displays the icons of apps currently running or "pinned" to it.
What is the Taskbar?
This is what OU stands for in Active Directory.
What is Organizational Unit?
This is the largest and most important circuit board in the computer.
What is the motherboard?
In your Windows operating system, you will look at this to find out how much RAM you have installed
What is the System window?
This is a disk subsystem that combines multiple physical disks into a single logical storage unit. Depending on the configuration, it can improve performance, provide fault tolerance, or both.
What is Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)?
This is a single accessible storage area within a file system. It can encompass a single partition or span multiple partitions depending on how it is configured and the operating system you are using. They are identified by drive letters.
What is a volume?
This will back up the data in a user's profile such as documents, music, and videos. It checks once an hour to see if any data has changed since the last check and is disabled by default.
What is Windows File History?
This was an animated educational children's television series. Two of the main characters were "Motherboard" and "Hacker"
What was Cyberchase?
This plays an important role in the Windows operating system because it allows more applications to run on the system than physical memory can support.
What is Virtual memory?
This RAID volume stripes data across mirrored pairs and across multiple disks for data redundancy. If a single disk fails, its data can be recovered using the mirrored information stored on the remaining disks. This requires a minimum of four disks.
What is RAID 10?
This is an account that has all rights and permissions on the computer. This account is hidden from normal view. It doesn't show up on the usual login screen.
What is the Built-in administrator account?
This changes the content of individual files so that only authorized users can read the contents.
What is file encryption?