Computer Systems & Maintenance

Question 1

What are the different types of cases and what is the most popular?

Answer 1

Full Tower, Desktop, Midi Tower (MP), Cube, HTPC, Slimline, Micro ATX

Question 2

What are blank panels called?

Answer 2

Spare Bays

Question 3

Why Full Tower?

Answer 3

More space for more internal expansion, mostly for File Servers etc

Question 4

Do PSUs have a form factor? If so, give an example

Answer 4

Yes, ATX

Question 5

How many times is USB 3 to USB 2?

Answer 5

10x

Question 6

What is switching on a PSU?

Answer 6

How it distributes power from the wall to the components

Question 7

How many pins are on the MB connector?

Answer 7

24

Question 8

How many pins is the CPU power connector?

Answer 8

4

Question 9

What is the finer thread screw?

Answer 9

M3 5mm

Question 10

What is the thicker thread screw?

Answer 10

6 1/32

Question 11

When purchasing a new computer case you can always expect a PSU (Power Supply Unit) to be included as part of the package?

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Which case would you expect to be able to house the most internal components and devices?

Answer 12

Full Tower

Question 13

What are the volts of ESD?

Answer 13

3,000V Feel

6,000V Hear

8,000 See

Question 14

What are the types of protection?

Answer 14

EBP (plug), Strap, Grounding Mat, Gloves

Question 15

Earth Bonding Point - Plugs into the wall

Answer 15

Plugs into the wall

Question 16

What is byte equal to?

Answer 16

8 Bits

Question 17

What are the lowercase ‘b’ and uppercase ‘B’?

Answer 17

‘b’ = bit
‘B’ = byte (8 bits)

Question 18

What is an HDD?

Answer 18

Hard Disc Drive that has permanent storage. Contains a platter, arm, and spindle that rotates.

Question 19

Buffer?

Answer 19

a form of temporary storage that the Hard Drive uses.

Question 20

RPM?

Answer 20

Revolutions per minute. eg. 7,200RPM in which the Hard Drive Spins

Question 21

Connections on HDD?

Answer 21

Power SATA and SATA Data

Question 22

AMD CPUs comes with..

Answer 22

PGA

Question 23

Intel CPUs come with..

Answer 23

LGA

Question 24

Which of the following is an active cooling solution ?

Answer 24

Fan

Question 25

Which of the following is a passive cooling solution ?

Answer 25

Heatsink

Question 26

Whilst shopping for a new CPU you notice that your chosen processor is listed twice.  One is ‘Retail’, the other ‘OEM’.  Which of these packages would you expect to include a Heatsink/Fan ?

Answer 26

Retail

Question 27

When fitting a CPU to an PGA socket, we would expect to find the pins on the

Answer 27

CPU

Question 28

When fitting a CPU to an LGA socket, we would expect to find the pins on the

Answer 28

MB

Question 29

Which CPU technology enables the CPU to simulate more than one core?

Answer 29

Hyperthreading

Question 30

All Microsoft Operating Systems support multiple CPU’s

Answer 30

False

Question 31

A typical use for PCIe?

Answer 31

WiFi Cards GPUs Storage

Question 32

Connections on the back of MBs?

Answer 32

Ps/2 USB Ethernet HDMI Audio

Question 33

What connects the components?

Answer 33

Bus

Question 34

You cannot install DDR2 into DDR3 for example, and vice versa?

Answer 34

True

Question 35

What are the features of DIMM?

Answer 35

Double Data

Question 36

What is a memory controller?

Answer 36

A special chip to control the data used in RAM

Question 37

Can a single DDR3 be installed into a Dual Memory Slot?

Answer 37

Yes

Question 38

What is the BIOS?

Answer 38

BIOS is responsible for the real-time system clock and instructs the CPU on were to boot the OS. Modern BIOS is called a UEFI and is more modern-looking and user friendly