Domain 3

Question 1

What is a twisted copper cabling with 4 pairs of wires running at 1Gbps?

Answer 1

CAT 5e

Question 2

What are the wiring standards for UTP network cable?

Answer 2

568A

568B

Question 3

This type of fiber allows for further runs and faster data throughput.

Answer 3

Single Mode

Question 4

PATA drives might also be known by this name.

Answer 4

IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)

Cables transferring data from the hard disk over a parallel data channel to the motherboard.

Question 5

You will see this type of connection in POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) installations with 4 wires.

Answer 5

RJ-11

Question 6

This type of connector is on UTP or STP cables for LAN networks with 8 wires.

Answer 6

RJ-45

Question 7

This type of connector is A miniature quick connect/disconnect radio frequency connector used for coaxial cable.

Answer 7

BNC (Bayonet Nut Coupling)

Question 8

This connector screws on and is a common type of coaxial cable used in a wide variety of residential and commercial applications.

Answer 8

RG-6 (Radio Guide size 6)

Question 9

These connectors are designed to work with the EIA/TIA 232 serial interface standard and used serial peripheral devices.

Answer 9

DB-9

Question 10

This type of RAID offers no fault tolerance but does offer a performance gain while striping data.

Answer 10

RAID 0

Question 11

This RAID type is also known as mirroring.

Answer 11

RAID 1

Question 12

The RAID type uses mirroring with striping.

Answer 12

RAID 10

Question 13

This motherboard measures 12” x 9.6” and is used in most standard desktop systems today.

Answer 13

ATX (Advanced Technology eXtended)

Question 14

LGA stands for this.

Answer 14

Land Grid Array

Question 15

How is processor performance measured?

Answer 15

MHz

GHz

Question 16

This allows you to monitor, use and configure different systems using the same keyboard, mouse, and video display.

Answer 16

KVM Switch (keyboard, video, and mouse)

Question 17

What voltages would be appropriate for the motherboard?

Answer 17

12V (Volt)

Question 18

If you wanted to use virtualization, which of the following do you need more than plenty of?

Answer 18

RAM

Question 19

This cable is rated to be used in crawl spaces, ceiling air spaces, elevator shafts, etc

Answer 19

Plenum

Question 20

This type of cable has a copper center core surrounded by an insulator, metallic shield, and plastic jacket.

Answer 20

Coaxial Cable

Question 21

This video cable has a 15 pin connector and doesn’t offer the best quality.

Answer 21

VGA (Video Graphics Array)

Question 22

This cable type was created to replace the older, PATA, parallel ATA data cables.

Answer 22

SATA

Question 23

This connector is used to supply the power to older, internal devices like hard disk drives and CD-ROMs.

Answer 23

Molex

Question 24

What RAM provides the best transfer rate?

Answer 24

DDR4 RAM (Double Data Rate Fourth Generation Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory)

Question 25

These errors are caused by physical factors, such as excessive temperature variation, voltage stress, or physical stress.

Answer 25

Hard Errors

Question 26

These are built into the motherboards of computers and devices in order to allow for the addition of devices like modems, network hardware, or sound and video cards.

Answer 26

PCI Slot (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

Question 27

What has a smaller form factor than PCI and is faster?

Answer 27

PCIe

Question 28

PGA stands for this.

Answer 28

Pin Grid Array

Question 29

This shares memory with the CPU and provides a more economical alternative to dedicated graphics card.

Answer 29

Integrated GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

Question 30

What voltage is usually found in homes based in the United States? And in the UK? And in Europa?

Answer 30

USA : 110/115 volts. UK : 230 volts. Europa : 220-240 volts depending on country.

Question 31

What voltage would be appropriate for PCIe?

Answer 31

3.3 voltage

Question 32

How many pins are on the power supply cable connector for the motherboard?

Answer 32

24 pins

Question 33

If I had a gaming system with dual video cards what voltage ratings might you want for your power supply?

Answer 33

800 volts.

Question 34

This is a storage that is available on the network for users with permission.

Answer 34

NAS (Network-attached storage)

Question 35

These clients have all the applications installed and executed locally.

Answer 35

Thick Client

Question 36

These clients have minimum requirements to run locally and all the heavy processing is done on a central server.

Answer 36

Thin Client

Question 37

True/False: Touchscreens are too new and expensive to self calibrate and only done at build time.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Which device transfers the image, consisting of toner, onto the paper?

Answer 38

Drum

Question 39

This is a pair of heated rollers within the printer that fuses the toner onto the paper being printed on.

Answer 39

Fuser Assembly

Question 40

This keeps all the paper in its place and only allows the top sheet to be fed at a time through the printer.

Answer 40

Separation Pads

Question 41

This is the array consisting of hundreds or thousands of tiny nozzles through which the ink is sprayed.

Answer 41

Print Head

Question 42

This is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper.

Answer 42

Thermal Printing