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| What is often thought of as the "engine" of the computer? |
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| What holds all the programs and data the processor is using at a given time? |
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| What is the frame or chassis that houses the motherboard, power supply, disk drives, adapter cards, and any other physical components in the system? |
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| What feeds electrical pwer to the internal components of the PC? |
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| What is a low-capacity, removable-media, magnetic-storage device? |
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| What is the primary high-capacity storage media for the system? |
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| What drives are relatively high-capacity storage media for the system? |
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| CD (compact dics) and DVD (digital verstile disc) drives |
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| What is the primary device on a PC that is used by a human to communicate with and control a system? |
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| What was the first and most popular pointing device on the market? |
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| What controls the information you see on the computer? |
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| Video Card (graphics card) |
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| What enables the PC to generate complex sounds? |
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| What motherboard form factor is used in tower and esktop systems; popular in high-end major OEM systems starting in 2007? |
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| What motherboard form factor is used in Standard tower and desktop systems; most common form factor from mid-1996 through the present; supports high-end systems? |
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| What does BIOS stand for? |
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| Basic Input/Output System |
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| What consists of low-level software that controls the system hardwar and acts as an interface between the operating system and the hardware? |
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| What are the three main types of physical memory used in modern PCs? |
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| What is a type of the memory that can permanently or semi-permanently store data? |
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| What is the type of memory chip used for the most of the main memory in a modern PC? |
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| Dynamic RAM (Dynamic RAM) |
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| What type of memory is available in access times of 2ns or less? |
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| A nonosecond is defined as... |
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| one billionth of a second |
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| What defines storage that retains the data even when no power is supplied to the computer? |
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| Hard disk drives are sometimes referred to as? |
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| What is a single ring of data on one side of a disk called? |
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| Tracks are divided into several numbered divisions known as what? |
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| Which type of file system has the standard file system supported by DOS and Windows 9x/Me? |
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| FAT (File Allocation Table) |
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| Which type of file system is an optional file system supported by Windows 95 OSR2 (OEM Service Release 2) and later? |
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| FAT32 (File Allocation Table, 32-bit) |
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| What is the native file system for Windows NT and later? |
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| NTFS (Windows NT File System) |
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| What type of storage is represented by the standard floppy and hard disks installed in most PC systems, where the data is recorded magnetically on a rotating disk? |
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| What type of storage is similar to magnetic disk storage in basic operation, but it reads and records using light instead of magnetism? |
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| What type of network is formed from computers and components in a single office or building? |
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| LANs in different locations can be connected by high-speed fiber-optic, satellite, or leased phone lines to form _________. |
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| Intranets that share a portion of their content with customers, suppliers, or other businesses, but not with the general public, are called ______. |
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| A Cat 3 (10BASE-T) transmission media can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| A Cat 5 transmission media can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| A Cat 6 transmission media can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| An 802.11a wireless Ethernet transmission can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| An 802.11b wireless Ethernet transmission can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| An 802.11g wireless Ethernet transmission can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| An 802.11n wireless Ethernet transmission can support up to what speed of transfer? |
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| What network topology connects each computer on computer on a network directly to the next computer in a linear fashion? |
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| What network topology connects each computer to the others in a loop or ring? |
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| What protocol suite is utilized by most Windows-based networks, as well as Linux, Unix, MacOS and other networks? |
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| What protocol suite is utilized by mainly Novell 4.x and earlier networks? |
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| What does POST stand for? |
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| The POST routines are contained where? |
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| Withing the motherboard ROM as well as ROMs on expansion cards |
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| What operates whenever any PC is powered up (switched on)? |
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| To notify a system administrator when there is a problem with the machine the POST uses what? |
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| What netowrk topology connects each computer on the network to a central access point? |
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| What uses the same web broswers and other software and the same TCP/IP protocol as the public Internet, but exists as a portion of a company's private network? |
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