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| What measures the distance around a figure? |
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| Measures extent of the planar area measured in square units. |
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| Measures how much space an object occupies. |
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| What dimension measures a point in space? |
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| What dimension measures a line? |
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| What dimension measures area? |
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| What dimension measures volume? |
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| What is the component used to store charges and filter signals? |
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| What component limits the current flow? |
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| Do semiconductors obey Ohm's law? |
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| What component do we use as controllers on the motherboard? |
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| QSOP (Quad Small Outline Package) |
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| What can DIP chips be used for? |
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| BIOS, Memory, and early processors |
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| What physical component allows for the customization of motherboard functions? |
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| What do we call motherboards that use CMOS or BIOS to configure new devices? |
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| Which type of motherboards have been configured to meett the needs of an OEM? |
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| What term refers to a motherboard's size, shape, and design characteristics? |
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| What motherboard form factor is commonly used today with AMD and Intel processors? |
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| What does interface mean? |
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| Which method of sending data allows us easier and cheaper speed increases? |
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| What do we call the wires on the motherboard? |
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| __________ lines determine where data is being sent. |
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| What two categories do we divide the computer's bus into? |
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| Which bus connects the CPU to the memory? |
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| What do we call the bus that doubles or quadruples the system bus' speed? |
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| What do we call data that is sent in pulses controlled by the clock speed? |
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| What do we call the controller that moves high speed information between the CPU, the memory and the video card? |
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| What is the most common modern expansion card port? |
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| What do we call the signal used to get the CPU's attention? |
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| What allows peripheral devices direct access to the memory? |
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| How does PCI transfer data in respect to the clock? |
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| What company developed PCI, AGP, as well as Pnp? |
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| What are the four advantages of the AGP slot for video cards? |
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| Speed, DMA, Pipelining, and sideband addressing |
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| What new technology provides high speed, scalable, serial I/O interface that is backward compatible with PCI technology? |
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| What slot adds networking connectivity to some motherboards? |
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| What do we call devices that can be connected or disconnected while the power is on? |
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| What is the maximum transfer rate of USB 2.0? |
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| What is the maximum transfer rate of USB 2.0? |
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| What is the maximum transfer rate of USB 2.0? |
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| What type of buses are USB and Firewire? |
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| What is IEEE 1394 known as commercially? |
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| What is the fastest hard drive interface out right now? Is it parrallel or serial? |
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| What do we call the group of controllers that controls the motherboard? |
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| What do we call the controller chip that routes information coming from the I/O buses? |
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| What does intel call their controller chips? |
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| What controls the low level functioning of specific hardware units? |
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| What is the common type of memory used to store the BIOS? |
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| What are the four main functions of the BIOS? |
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| Power on Self Test, CMOS Setup Screen, BIOS INstructions, Boot Instructions |
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| What is another name for a peripheral device or expansion card? |
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| What system configuration gives you a backup BIOS? |
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| What does CMOS stand For? |
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| Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
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| What does system memory consist of? |
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| Which type of memory loses data when power is interrupted? |
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Memory types that must be updated are said to be being ____________
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| The __________ the CAS is the faster the memory will be |
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| What memory technology stores bits of data for detecting and correcting errors? |
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| Error Correcting Code Memory |
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| What do we call a buffered type of memory that sharpens the clock signal and reduces the occurances of misread data? |
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| What type of memory is also known as cache? |
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| SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) |
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| What two components make up DRAM? |
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| Transistors and Capacitors |
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| What type of device measures the charge present in DRAM memory? |
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| What type of memory weaves two cell banks of data together? |
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| What type of memory is capable of transfering data both on the rising and falling of the clock? |
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| What type of memory weaves together two identical memory sticks and transfers the data over what is effectively a 128 bit bus? |
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| Which type of memory quad pumps data over a 16 to 18 bit channel at very high frequencies? |
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| Some chipsets for this processor support RDRAM. |
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| What is the type of ROM chip that can only be written once? |
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| What type of ROM is erased using UV light? |
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| What type of ROM can be erased using electric signals? |
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| What do we call the process of erasing a ROM chip? |
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| What are the two most common types of mass storage? |
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| Magnetic and Optical Discs |
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| This term is used to describe something made of moveable parts. |
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| This is a term that refers to a device that functions by recieving discrete electrical signals. |
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| Magnetic domains of hard drives act as _________________. |
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| How strongly magnetic domains resist changes. |
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| How long magnetic domains retain information. |
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| How many bytes are in a sector? |
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| Which type of formatting is performed by the user? |
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| What three things does a high level format configure? |
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| Boot Record, File System, and Root Directory |
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| What is the smallest amount of space that can be allocated by an Operating System? |
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| What do we call the road map the OS uses to locate files on the Hard Drive? |
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| What file system does Mac OS use? What file system(s) are used by windows? |
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| How many devices are supported by each IDE connector on a motherboard? |
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| What do we call the technology that allows several smaller drives to act logically as one drive? |
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| Which RAID type is the fastest? |
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| What term describes the laser technology used to read and store data on a disc drive. |
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| What terms refer to grooved or dyed surfaces on CD's and DVD's? |
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| What function are consumer sound cards optimized for? |
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| What are the four main components on a sound card? |
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| ADC, DSP, DAC, and Flash Memory |
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| What do we call the processor on the sound card that allows the manipulation of digital data? |
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| What are the four typical functions of a sound card? |
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| Play, Record, Synthesize, process |
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| What type of generated sounds sound most true to life? |
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| What do we call the technology that allows us to input and output sound at the same time? |
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| List the three basic components of a CD Drive. |
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| Drive Motor, Laser, Tracking Mechanism |
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