What is the purpose of a motherboard?
What connects all the parts of a computer together, allowing them to interact?
How many RAM slots are typically on a motherboard
What is 2-4 slots?
Before the motherboard was invented, this was what was used instead, acting in place of the motherboard.
What is backplane?
How is mining bad for the environment?
What is habitat destruction
What is water pollution
What is soil erosion
What is pH lowering in water
True or False: VIA Technologies developed the Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, and Pico-ITX motherboard
What is true?
What HDD and SSD stand for
What are Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive?
This is the year when the first motherboard was created.
When is1981?
What is toxic leaching?
What is E-waste in the environment
True or False: Pico-ITX is the largest motherboard in the ITX series, measuring twice the size of a Nano-ITX board.
What is False; Mini ITX is the largest in ITX series
What a packet collision is
What is it called when the packets (small segments of a larger message containing information) sent out from different devices collide and the electrical signals (0s and 1s, photons) get jumbled up?
Intel released this motherboard model which is still in use today.
What is an ATX Model?
What does SAC alloy stand for?
What is tin-silver-lead alloy
These two materials are mainly used in manufacturing a PCB.
What are fiberglass and copper?
Firmware
What instructs the computer what to do once it is turned on, loading the operating system and allowing the computer to interact with external devices? It gives basic operating instructions to hardware, like software for hardware. It is mainly for starting the computer and communication.
What is a 1984 IBM release which was the fourth model in the PC line?
What is IBM PC/AT?
What are some health effects of being exposed to toxic leaching?
What is
- Reproductive problems
- Brain damage
- Cancer
What does an ATE machine in the manufacturing process?
What is tests the motherboard through electrical pulses?
List five kinds of external connectors and their uses
USB ports that enable data transfer between the computer and other devices?
Ethernet (LAN) ports that enable ethernet and LAN connection?
Audio jacks that transmit audio signals?
HDMI or display ports that transmit video and audio information?
PS/2 ports that connect the mouse and keyboard to an IBM compatible computer?
This 2003 data communication standard was introduced by multiple companies including Intel, Dell, HP, etc.
What is PCI Express?
What is EPEAT?
What is Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool?