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| What does the term hardware relate to? |
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| The computer's physical componets |
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| What are some physical components of a computer? |
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| Moniter, hard drive, keyboard, memory chips |
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| What does the term software relate to? |
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| Set of instructions that directs the hardware to accomplish a task |
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| What can a recovery CD be used for? |
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| To boot a system and repair or reinstall the Windows operating system |
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| What is the most popular form factor? |
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| What are temporary voltage reduction called? |
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| What does multiprocessing allow a computer to do? |
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| Run more than one thing at a time |
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| It is a clip on device that mounts on top of the processor, it's fingers or fins at its base pull heat away from the processor |
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| What is the process of upgrading or refreshing the ROM BIOS chip called? |
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| What does one beep mean when the PC is booting? |
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| That it completed POST succesfully |
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| Simms have a __ bit data path |
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| A DIMM slot can hold ___ blanks |
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| A floppy drive cable has __ pins |
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| A 3u1/2 inch, high-density floppy disk has a storage capacity of _.__MB |
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| A touch screen is an _____ device that uses a moniter or LCD panel as the backdrop for _____ options |
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| ___ moniters are also called flat panel monitors for the desktop |
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| The printer is an ______ device which produces ______ on paper |
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| _________ storage is sometimes called secondary storage |
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| In a normally clean evironment, you should make sure that air vents are clear on a ______ basis |
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| A device that is not installed directly on the montherboard is called a __________ device |
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| How many bits are in a byte? |
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| What is another name for a system bus? |
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| How many pins does the main power connector on a BTX board have? |
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| Which type of case form factor is best designed to keep a system cool? |
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| Who is the major competitor of Intel in processor market? |
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| What is the identifying factor of a PGA socket? |
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| It's pins are in a grid array |
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| How many power coards connect to a baby AT Motherboard? |
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| If a motherboard has two parallel ATA connections, how many EIDE devices can the system support? |
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| Four. A master device and a slave device on each PATA chain |
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| Which key do you press to start up in safe mode? |
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| How are moniter screen sizes measured? |
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| A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program |
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| A sequence of adjacent bits |
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| The max amount of space something can hold |
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| Internal heart beat of computer |
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| A small circuit board that holds semiconductor memory chips with two independent rows of input/output contacts |
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| The main board of a computer that holds the processor |
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| The part of a computer that interprets and executes instructions |
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| What supplies power to a computer |
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| Operating system for the Macintosh PC |
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| A external drive that can transfer files from computer to computer |
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| The speed that the processor runs at |
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| A printed circuit board that holds several semiconductor memory chips and is used to add memory to a computer |
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| A compact-disk format that allows audio or other digital data to be written, read, erased, and rewritten |
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| A PC made by a specific company |
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