Know your Hardware
Largest Electronic Board in the computer
Motherboard
A byte is made up of how many bits?
8 Bits
Inside and outside the processor you find these lines that are used to carry 0s and 1s.
Bus
How does data move forward and away from the CPU
External data bus; internal data bus
The most common type of BIOS used today is...
Flash BIOS
Which device is only an input device?
Keyboard
Approximately 1,000 bytes
The most common type of network card is...
Ethernet
To a processor a character on the key board appears as....
A series of 1s and 0s
CMOS holds the computer's___________
Current BIOS configuration
Which type of memory is data lost when the electricity is turned off?
RAM
What capacity is a megabyte
Approximately one million bytes
A riser board attaches to a....
Motherboard
Which component is located outside the CPU?
Chipset
Where does POST get the list of hardware that is supposed to be in the computer?
From the settings stored in CMOS
AC or DC.....Get your Power on!
A computer PSU supplies DC voltage to the internal parts of a computer.
Which is bigger giga or tera?
Terabyte is bigger! One trillion bytes!
Or 1000 gigabytes.
Mini-Din connectors are typically found on....
Mice and Keyboards
Which CPU unit performs calculations?
ALU
The BIOS is an example of hardware.
True or False?
False. It is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process.
Light it up!
Caps lock is a common keyboard light
How big is a gigabyte?
10,243 Bytes
Which type of cache memory is used first by the CPU if possible?
L1
Which processor speed is faster MHz or GHz
Gigahertz (GHz) is faster
What is booting?
The process of starting the computer. It can be initiated by hardware such as a button press or by a software command.