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100

This is a common memory type for laptops with upgradable memory

What is SO-DIMM?

100

This provides multiple network ports for cables that converge in an electrical closet.

What is a patch panel?

100

This type of memory cannot be erased.

What is Read Only Memory (ROM)?

100

This Windows utility can be used to view and modify partitions on hard drives and to format drives.

What is Disk Management?

100

This is the 3 letter file format extension of a disc image containing Windows that you may download from Microsoft. It's also Professor Lu's preferred Internet downloads when it comes to Linux.

What is a .ISO?

200

This is the technology you may use for contactless payments on a smartphone.

What is Near-Field Communication (NFC)?

200

Twists in the wires used for network cabling improve performance and reliability by reducing this.

What is crosstalk?

200

Pressing this button in Windows Task Manager will quit the selected program and free up available memory to the system.

What is "End Task"?

200

This standalone device provides access to hard drives via an Ethernet connection.

What is a Network Attached Storage (NAS)?

200

This cloud model features cloud resources that is made available to the general population.

What is the public cloud?

300

This cellular technology features supports for speeds up to 20 Gbps.

What is 5G?

300

Use this to identify the network portion and the host portion of an IP address?

What is a subnet mask?

300

This type of memory can support quad, triple, and dual channels.

What is DDR3?

300

This SATA version provides a transfer rate of 6Gb/sec

What is SATA 3?

300

Installing and having multiple operating systems to select and boot from is called this.

What is Dual-Booting?

400

This is the typical range of a class 2 Bluetooth device's radio.

What is 10 meters (33 feet)?

400

This protocol makes a connection, checks whether the data is received, and resends it if it is not.

What is TCP?

400

The Pagefile.sys in Windows is used to perform this operating system feature.

What is virtual memory?

400

Data stored on magnetic tape differs from magnetic hard disks in that data is accessed in this manner.

What is linearly/sequentially?

400

When troubleshooting a device in Windows, go to this utility and see if a yellow triangle with an exclamation point shows up, indicating a problem.

What is the device manager?

500

This is the component that enables screens to respond to touch input

What is a digitizer?

500

The unit of information when a network adapter adds the source and destination MAC address to the segment of data before it is transmitted on the network is called this.

What is a frame?

500

This technology used in most server memory can provide additional reliability.

What is ECC?

500

You need a minimum of this number of disks to implement RAID-5

What are three?

500

This cloud service model is appropriate for organizations wishing to work with direct access to compute, storage, or networking.

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?