Motherboard
ATX
What is commonly used to identify a USB 3.0 port?
The port is colored blue.
Which optical media can store 50GB of data?
Dual Layer Blu Ray
Which type of socket supports Intel CPUs?
LGA
Which password allows authorized access to the BIOS / UEFI settings?
Supervisor
In older systems, what chipset connected the CPU to RAM and Video?
Northbridge
What are the two most common ports used for connecting a mouse to a PC?
Which version of RAID provides increased performance and fault tolerance?
RAID 5, Striping with Parity.
Inigo wants a PC for performing a single-threaded task as quickly as possible. Which CPU characteristics is the most important?
Clock speed.
Boot order
Can you insert a x1 PCIe card into a x4 PCIe slot?
Yes.
Which DVI connection accepts both and analog and digital?
DVI-I
What is the minimum number of drives required for RAID 10, Mirrored Striped Sets?
4
What is the term for increasing the clock speed of a processor, generally above the manufacturer's specification?
Overclocking
How many bits in a byte?
8
Which single connection is used to carry high definition audio and video?
HDMI
What is the most commonly used form factor (size) for a laptop hard drive?
2.5 inch
What is multi-threaded processing?
The ability of CPU to process multiple processes concurrently.
How do you typically enter BIOS/UEFI Setup?
With a specified keystroke during the boot process. The key is dependent upon the manufacturer.
On an ATX motherboard, the 4-pin or 8 pin auxiliary power connector provides power to what?
CPU (voltage regulator)
Which connector is typically used between the motherboard and a solid state drive?
SATA
How much faster is DDR3 memory than DDR memory?
Four times
The CPU is the central processing unit. What is the name of the processing unit on a video card?
Graphics Processing Unit or GPU
What is POST?
Power on Self Test