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Question 1

Question
Which type of memory is primarily used as cache memory?
Answer
  • DRAM
  • RAM
  • ROM
  • SRAM

Question 2

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Which two considerations would be of the greatest importance when building a workstation that will run multiple virtual machines? (Choose two)
Answer
  • amount of RAM
  • number of CPU cores
  • water cooling
  • powerful video card
  • high-end sound card

Question 3

Question
Which three devices are considered output devices?
Answer
  • fingerprint scanner
  • headphones
  • keyboard
  • monitor
  • mouse
  • printer

Question 4

Question
A user playing a game on a gaming PC with a standard EIDE 5400 RPM hard drive finds the performance unsatisfactory. Which hard drive upgrade would improve performance while providing more reliability and using less power?
Answer
  • a 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive
  • a 7200 RPM SATA hard drive
  • a 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive
  • an SSD

Question 5

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Which hardware upgrade would allow the processor in a gaming PC to provide the optimal gaming performance?
Answer
  • large amounts of fast RAM
  • liquid cooling
  • a fast EIDE drive
  • a high capacity external hard drive

Question 6

Question
Which two storage devices use a magnetic medium for storing data? (Choose two.)
Answer
  • tape drive
  • solid state drive
  • hard disk drive
  • blue-ray disk drive
  • compact disk drive

Question 7

Question
Which two pieces of information are needed before selecting a power supply? (Choose two.)
Answer
  • the type of CPU
  • the form factor of the case
  • the installed operating system
  • the total wattage of all components
  • the voltage requirements of peripheral devices

Question 8

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Which memory module has a front side bus speed of 200 MHz?
Answer
  • DDR-333
  • DDR-400
  • DDR3-667
  • PC100 SDRAM

Question 9

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What are two factors that must be considered when choosing a computer case? (Choose two.)
Answer
  • the size of the monitor
  • the vendor that manufactured the motherboard
  • the number of internal drive locations
  • the size of the motherboard and the power supply
  • the number of LED indicators at the front of the case

Question 10

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Choose 2 characteristics of RAID 0:
Answer
  • highest performance
  • disk mirrorring
  • combination of data striping and parity
  • data striping without redundancy
  • ability of data to be rebuilt with information from the other drives
  • high performance and high protection because data is duplicated

Question 11

Question
Choose 2 characteristics of RAID 1:
Answer
  • highest performance
  • disk mirrorring
  • combination of data striping and parity
  • data striping without redundancy
  • ability of data to be rebuilt with information from the other drives
  • high performance and high protection because data is duplicated

Question 12

Question
Choose 2 characteristics of RAID5:
Answer
  • highest performance
  • disk mirrorring
  • combination of data striping and parity
  • data striping without redundancy
  • ability of data to be rebuilt with information from the other drives
  • high performance and high protection because data is duplicated

Question 13

Question
Refer to the exhibit. Which type of video card expansion slot is depicted?
Image:
i201180v1n1_14656 (image/jpg)
Answer
  • AGP
  • ISA
  • PCI
  • PCIe

Question 14

Question
What type of connector can be used to connect an eSATA interface to an external SATA drive?
Answer
  • 5-pin connector
  • 7-pin connector
  • 9-pin connector
  • 15-pin connector

Question 15

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SCSI
Answer
  • 7-pin cable that connects to an external hard drive
  • can support up to 15 devices and must be terminated at the end of the chain
  • 6-pin mini-DIN connector for a keyboard or mouse
  • transmits 8 bits of data at one time and uses the IEEE 1284 standard
  • uses either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector and transmits one bit of data at a time

Question 16

Question
PS/2
Answer
  • 7-pin cable that connects to an external hard drive
  • can support up to 15 devices and must be terminated at the end of the chain
  • 6-pin mini-DIN connector for a keyboard or mouse
  • transmits 8 bits of data at one time and uses the IEEE 1284 standard
  • uses either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector and transmits one bit of data at a time

Question 17

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serial
Answer
  • 7-pin cable that connects to an external hard drive
  • can support up to 15 devices and must be terminated at the end of the chain
  • 6-pin mini-DIN connector for a keyboard or mouse
  • transmits 8 bits of data at one time and uses the IEEE 1284 standard
  • uses either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector and transmits one bit of data at a time

Question 18

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parallel
Answer
  • 7-pin cable that connects to an external hard drive
  • can support up to 15 devices and must be terminated at the end of the chain
  • 6-pin mini-DIN connector for a keyboard or mouse
  • transmits 8 bits of data at one time and uses the IEEE 1284 standard
  • uses either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector and transmits one bit of data at a time

Question 19

Question
eSATA
Answer
  • 7-pin cable that connects to an external hard drive
  • can support up to 15 devices and must be terminated at the end of the chain
  • 6-pin mini-DIN connector for a keyboard or mouse
  • transmits 8 bits of data at one time and uses the IEEE 1284 standard
  • uses either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector and transmits one bit of data at a time

Question 20

Question
Refer to the exhibit. Which type of cable is shown in the graphic?
Image:
i201183v1n1_14270 (image/jpg)
Answer
  • FireWire
  • parallel
  • serial
  • USB

Question 21

Question
Which two activities are normally controlled by the Northbridge part of the chipset? (Choose two.)
Answer
  • communication between the CPU and the I/O ports
  • access to the RAM
  • communication between the CPU and the hard drive
  • access to the video card
  • communication between the CPU and the sound card

Question 22

Question
A technician looks at a motherboard and sees a 24-pin connector. What component would connect to the motherboard through the use of this 24-pin connector?
Answer
  • power supply
  • video card
  • PATA optical drive
  • SATA drive
  • floppy drive
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