Motherboards
What is the motherboard form factor?
The motherboard sixe
Which type of cache memory is used by the CPU first if possible?
L1
When a disk has been prepared to store data, it has been?
Formatted
What Windows program is used to disable a hardware driver?
Device Manager
What is the term collectively to the Northbridge and Southbridge?
Chipset
What term is used to describe four CPUs in a single unit?
Quad -Core
What type of memory do SSDs use?
Flash
What Windows tool is used to halt an application that is not responding?
Task Manager
Which motherboard form factor is the most common?
ATX
A new CPU is being installed. What is applied directly to the CPU to attach a heat sink?
Thermal Compound
How many pins does a SATA data cable have?
7
What does the Disk Defragmenter tool do?
Analyzes hard drives and places folder in contiguous order.
The place to plug in an adapter card is called a (n)
Expansion slot
Over time, DRAM chips lose their charge. The process of rewriting the information is called?
Refreshing
The smallest division on hard disk is a _______.
Sector
What Windows MSCONFIG tab allows a technician to disable half the programs that launch as part of the boot process?
Startup
The motherboard contains the wires - called ______ that make up the buses of the system.
Traces
DDR4 memory is a type of ______ memory.
SDRAM
Which RAID implementation produces a non-fault tolerant stiped set that allows multiple physical disks to be treated as a single volume?
0
What tool can be used before installing Windows to determine whether a computer has compatibility issues?
Upgrade Advisor