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| what is the Von Neumann bottleneck? |
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| It is where the memory is physically separate from the CPU. |
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| Why did Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley receive the Nobel Prize? |
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| Because the invented the first transistors. |
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| Which microprocessor was used in the first IBM PC? |
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| What is the decimal number 36 converted into binary? |
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| What is the binary number 11111 converted into decimal? |
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| what is the largest decimal number that 7 bits can hold? |
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| if 2^x=65,536; then what is X? |
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| how many bytes are in 2GB? |
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| What is the binary number 1010 converted into hexadecimal? |
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| Name the Boolean operations discussed in the book. |
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| How many ports does a USB port hub control? |
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| how much power does a USB hub provide? |
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| what is a Null-Modem cable used for? |
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| a specifically designed cable that allows a user to connect tow computers to each other. |
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| Which port was first used for printers? |
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| Either a DB-25 port or an RS-232 |
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| What is another name for FireWire? |
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| Which port did keyboards and Mice first use? |
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| either a RS-232 or a PS/2 |
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| which type of monitor is similar to a television? |
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| Which type of monitor uses liquid crystal cells? |
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| Name 3 different types of video ports. |
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| Which type of printer uses heat and special printer paper? |
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| What is the north bridge? |
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| The north bridge handles the communication among the CPU in some cases RAM and PCI express video cards. |
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| handles the computers I/O Functions |
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| Which motherboard replaced the AT and the baby-AT |
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| What is the smallest BTX motherboard? |
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| If a motherboard has four memory slots, how many must be filled to boot the machine? |
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| which 32-bit desktop expansion slot runs at 33 MHz? |
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| What is another name for EIDE? |
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| Which Mass Storage Interface can connect both hard drives and other devices? |
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| How many processor cores are in an intoel Core 2 Quad chip? |
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| Name the difference between intel and AMD processors. |
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| What is processing 2 execution threads in a single processor called? |
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