Chapter 1-6

Question 1

A person cannot perceive electricity until it has reached _______ volts

Answer 1

1500

Question 2

The _______ was developed to simplyfy the connection of peripheral devices

Answer 2

USB - Universal Serial Bus

Question 3

Name 4 types of data storage

Answer 3

1. Hard Drives
2. Optical Drives
3. Tape
4. USB Jump Drives

Question 4

Oracle VirtuaBox mimics physical PCs so closely that the applications you install in them dont distinquish the virtual machine from _______

Answer 4

a guest computer

Question 5

Name 2 types of operating systems that can be used with virtual machine technology

Answer 5

1. Windows 7

2. Linux

Question 6

Name 3 types of input devices

Answer 6

1. Mouse
2. Trackball
3. Fingerprint Scanner

Question 7

Use a _______ to clean the computer case

Answer 7

mild cleaning solution

Question 8

What is the mortal enemy of a PC

Answer 8

heat

Question 9

Name 4 toxic ingredients that a computer can contain

Answer 9

1. Lead
2. Mercury
3. Cadmium
4. Arsenic

Question 10

Name 4 types of hard drive controllers

Answer 10

1. SATA
2. PATA
3. ATA
4. SCSI

Question 11

What is the electronic holding place for programs and data

Answer 11

RAM

Question 12

3 memory types used to hold BIOS firmware

Answer 12

1. EPROM
2. EEPROM
3. ROM

Question 13

Name 3 types of communication devices

Answer 13

1. Modem
2. NIC
3. Wireless Adapter

Question 14

Name4 types of I/O ports

Answer 14

1. Serial
2. Parallel
3. USB
4. Firewire

Question 15

The _______ is the size, configuration, or physical arrangement of the PC hardware

Answer 15

Form Factor

Question 16

True/False: The size of the bus determines how much data can be transmitted at one time

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True/False: Changes made in the virtual machines do not affect your physical computer

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Each cyrstal in a _______ display is like a shuteer, either allowing light to pass thru or blocking light

Answer 18

LCD panel

Question 19

In IT _______ ususally refers to technologies for measuring and analyzing human body characteristics - such as fingerprints - for authentication purposes

Answer 19

Biometrics

Question 20

Buses consist of two parts

a._______ and b. _______

Answer 20

a. data bus

b. address bus

Question 21

A disk drive _______ manages the transfer of data from a motheerboard to a disk drive and vice versa

Answer 21

controller

Question 22

Male ports on the back of a PC are this type

Answer 22

Serial

Question 23

Female ports on the back of a PC are this type

Answer 23

Parallel

Question 24

FireWire transfers rates up to _______ Mbps

Answer 24

400

Question 25

The term RAM means...

Answer 25

read and write memory

Question 26

Name the tabs displayed by the Task Manager

Answer 26

1. Applications 2. Performance 3. Networking

Question 27

Name the protocol used for file sharing in Windows 7

Answer 27

SMB

Question 28

To edit the Windows Registry file you need to use _______

Answer 28

Windows Regedit

Question 29

Name 4 jobs of the system Kernel

Answer 29

1. Make certain the application is serviced properly 2. Secure the hardware 3. Install all hardware 4. Manager the computer system resources

Question 30

How many consoles are installed with Fedora 13

Answer 30

6

Question 31

Name two commands used to display the contents of a text file

Answer 31

1. type | 2. cat

Question 32

DOS was first used with_______

Answer 32

IBM PCs

Question 33

_______ is an example of Fedora 13 character device

Answer 33

Keyboard

Question 34

Types of applications

Answer 34

a. Word Processor b. Graphics Software c. Spreadsheet d. Web Browser

Question 35

Types of drivers

Answer 35

a. Bus Driver b. Function Driver c. Filter Driver

Question 36

To share files in Fedora 13 you need to use

Answer 36

Samba

Question 37

A _______ is an example of Fedora 13 block device

Answer 37

Disk Drive

Question 38

Name 4 management tasks that are OS functions

Answer 38

1. Memory 2. Processing 3. Storage 4. Devices

Question 39

To view detailed system usage information in Windows 7 use _______

Answer 39

Windows Task Manager

Question 40

Name 3 devices controlled by a bus driver

Answer 40

1. USB 2. SCSI 3. PCI

Question 41

The reason most people use computers is to _______

Answer 41

use application software