BIOS
This is a more modern system to perform basic validations and self testing.
What is UEFI?
This can damage computer parts when you touch them.
What is ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD)?
This is the term for the set of characteristics that describe the features of the motherboard such as size and shape.
This is the name of the spinning disks in a moving hard drive.
What is a platter?
These is the types of connector that receives Ethernet and phone line connections. (which is which?)
What are RJ-11 (phone) and RJ-45 (ethernet) connections?
These are the two password types that allow for both loading the OS and making changes to the BIOS.
What are the user and supervisor passwords?
This is a reference guide provided with materials that might be hazardous.
What is the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)?
These are the two most common motherboard form factors.
What are ATX and micro ATX?
These are the three common rotating speeds of hard drives.
What are 5400, 7200, and 10,000 RPMs?
This type of connector is also called a mini-DIN 6 connector.
This BIOS setting, set incorrectly, this would directly prevent a live disk from working.
What is the boot order?
When you're responsible to resolve an issue, you should always know ______.
Where you are in the resolution process and what your next step is.
These are the three most common types of expansion slots.
What are PCI, PCIe, and PCI-X?
These types of RAID to striping and cloning. (Which is which?)
This type of connector transports sound and audio on the same cable.
What is HDMI?
This BIOS setting, set incorrectly, will cause an error message like: VT-x / AMD-V is not available on your system.
What is virtualization?
This is the acronym for the law protecting health information.
What is HIPAA?
If RAM in a desktop application could be DDR, DDR2, or DDR3 -- these comparable terms would be the smaller, laptop version.
What are SO-DIMM DDR, SO-DIMM DDR2, and SO-DIMM DDR3?
These are at least two of three types of optical drives.
What is CD, DVD, or BluRay? (any two will get the points).
This is the number of types of DVI connection configurations. (Double points if you name them all)
What is 5? DVI single link, DVI dual link, DVI-D single, DVI-D dual, DVI-A.
This is what LGA, PGA, and ZIF stand for.
What is Land Grid Array, Pin Grid Array, and Zero Insertion Force.
These are the steps, in order, to troubleshooting.
1.Identify the problem
2.Establish a theory
3.Test the theory
4.Implement a plan
5.Verify resolution
6.Document findings
This is the module name of DDR-200.
What is PC1600?
These are two types of tape media.
What are QIC, DLT, 8MM (Exabyte), DAT/DDS, LTO? (Any two get the points).
These are the words for which MIDI is an acronym.
What is Musical Instrument Digital Interface?