Deck 2: On the Motherboard

Question 1

CPU stands for

A) Central Processing Unit
B) Control Performance Umpire
C) Computer Processing Unit
D) Coordinating Performance Unit

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A PC normally has more RAM on the motherboard than hard disk storage installed in the system.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

ISA adapters can install into a PCI expansion slot.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The processor must be inserted into the appropriate-sized socket.

Question 5

When installing a processor, the power supply should be turned off, but the power cord should stay attached.

Question 6

Cache memory is faster than RAM.

Question 7

After installing a processor for the first time, apply power and ensure the computer boots before installing a heat sink or fan.

Question 8

A special motherboard chip that executes instructions, performs math calculations, and coordinates input/output operations is called the

A) Microprocessor
B) Processor
C) CPU
D) All these answers are true.

Question 9

Major microprocessor manufacturers are

A) Apple, Gateway, and Dell
B) Intel, Motorola, and AMD
C) Maxtor, Seagate, and Sony
D) Microsoft, 3-Com, and Oracle

Question 10

CPU manufacturers include Intel, Motorola, and AMD.

Question 11

PC stands for

A) Primary cache
B) Principle controller
C) Personal computer
D) Personal console

Question 12

PCI adapters can install into a PCI-X expansion slot.

Question 13

A system clock determines such things as the maximum amount of motherboard memory, type of memory chips, the ability to support Universal Serial Bus, and the latest PCI connectivity.

Question 14

PCIe cards fit in ISA expansion slots.

Question 15

Which type of cache memory is used first by the CPU if possible?

A) L1
B) L2
C) L3
D) L4

Question 16

PCI adapters can install into a PCI or ISA expansion slot.

Question 17

ISA is the oldest expansion slot that is still found in some computers.

Question 18

PCIe is the most popular expansion slot in computers today.

Question 19

Software must be specifically written to take advantage of dual- or quad-core CPUs.

Question 20

Inside and outside the processor you find lines that are used to carry 0s and 1s. These lines are called a

A) Bit
B) Bus
C) Virtual bike
D) Path

Question 21

2 to the 20th power, or 1,048,576, is equal to a

A) Megabyte
B) Gibibyte
C) Kibibyte
D) Metabyte

Question 22

Which CPU unit performs calculations?

A) Registers
B) Chipset
C) ALU
D) I/O unit

Question 23

Which processor speed is the fastest?

A) 1GHz
B) 2GHz
C) 833MHz
D) 900MHz

Question 24

Data moves toward and away from the CPU on the ____, whereas data travels inside the CPU on the ____.

A) High bus; low bus
B) Peripheral exchange; central route
C) Distal data path; proximal data path
D) External data bus; internal data bus

Question 25

Data travels to the processor on the

A) External data bus
B) Internal data bus
C) Internal register
D) Silicon pathway

Question 26

1M, 1,000,000 bytes, and 1024 kilobytes are all terms associated with a

A) Melabyte
B) Megabyte
C) Milobyte
D) Minkobyte

Question 27

What does a 64 on an AMD processor mean?

A) 64GHz speed
B) 6.4GHz speed
C) 64-bit operating systems supported
D) 64 processor pipelines

Question 28

You can assume that the processing speed of the CPU is faster using pipeline technology because

A) One channel handles all the processing faster than multiple channels.
B) The processor completes two or more command sequences at the same time.
C) A pipeline in a processor has a larger word size than the rest of the processor.
D) The processor uses multiple branches within the pipeline.

Question 29

As the size of the bus increases, performance of the computer should

A) Decrease
B) Increase
C) Decelerate
D) Is not affected

Question 30

Mary opens the cover to her computer and looks at the motherboard. She notices what appear to be thin lines between the various expansion slots found on the motherboard. These lines are most likely the

A) Cracks found on the motherboard
B) Internal register lines
C) Internal data bus
D) External data bus

Question 31

Bits of data travel inside the processor on the

A) External data bus
B) PCI bus
C) Internal data bus
D) USB expansion bus

Question 32

From the following choices, select the one arranged in the order from lowest to highest:

A) Bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte
B) Terabyte, gigabyte, megabyte, kilobyte, byte, bit
C) Exabyte, terabyte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte
D) Sadobyte, masobyte, pedobyte, arachnobyte

Question 33

2 to the 30th power, or 1,083.841.924, is called a

A) Mebibyte
B) Gibibyte
C) Kibibyte
D) Metabyte

Question 34

A byte is made up of ____ bits.

A) 1
B) 2
C) 4
D) 8

Question 35

Which component is located outside the CPU?

A) Registers
B) Chipset
C) ALU
D) I/O unit

Question 36

To the processor, a character on the keyboard

A) Appears as a series of 1s and 0s
B) Is a picture image of the character
C) Is a kilobyte in length
D) Has a size of 1 bit

Question 37

Some microprocessors have been designed with separate internal buses that operate at the same time. These separate internal buses are called

A) Complimentary processors
B) Pipelines
C) Frequencies
D) Channels

Question 38

The number of bits processed at one time is the processorʹs

A) Letter size
B) Word size
C) Paragraph size
D) Page size

Question 39

Which type of computer would more likely use a BTX motherboard?

A) Laptop
B) Server
C) Netbook
D) Desktop
E) Cell phone

Question 40

A kilobyte is equivalent to

A) Approximately 500 megabytes
B) Approximately 1,000 bytes
C) Approximately 1 gigabyte
D) Approximately 32 bits

Question 41

Which components would be considered an "active" CPU cooling technology?

A) Heat sink
B) Additional case fans
C) Thermal paste/heat sink and processor fan
D) CPU fan monitoring and internal temperature monitoring

Question 42

Which technology can make a logical processor core appear as a physical processor core on the System Information page?

A) ExpressCard
B) Hyper-Threading
C) CardBus
D) Octacore

Question 43

What expansion slot replaced AGP?

A) AMD
B) AGP2
C) PCIe
D) PCI-X

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT an example of a processor?

A) Fusion
B) BIOS
C) Celeron
D) Turon

Question 45

When replacing a CPU, which of the following is true?

A) The CPU and motherboard socket must match.
B) A motherboard can accept only one type of CPU.
C) The CPU and BIOS must match.
D) The CPU and heat sink or fan must be bought together for compatibility.

Question 46

How can you determine what CPU(s) are supported by a motherboard?

A) The CPU fits only one way.
B) If a ZIF socket is installed, it is Pentium or higher.
C) The motherboard documentation can provide this.
D) Every socket is clearly identified on the motherboard.

Question 47

The Socket FM2 connector may be found in use with computers that have a

A) Pentium II processor
B) Celeron processor
C) Core i7
D) Fusion

Question 48

What term is used to describe two CPUs in a single unit?

A) Dual-core
B) DUO
C) Quad-core
D) Bi-core

Question 49

What does quad core mean in relation of processors?

A) The main CPU is clocked at four times the static rate.
B) Four processors are installed in one or two sockets on the motherboard.
C) Four pipelines are used inside the processor for simultaneous instruction execution.
D) Four core system processes can be executed upon simultaneously.

Question 50

Which expansion slot would be used on an ATX motherboard?

A) PCIe
B) ExpressCard/34
C) ExpressCard/54
D) Mini-PCI

Question 51

You type the following words on a screen: GO LADY VOLS! If the processor handles 32 bits at a time, what letters are input to the processor simultaneously?

A) G
B) GO
C) GO L
D) GO LA
E) GO LADY VOLS!

Question 52

What cooling technology would be the first element to dissipate heat from the processor?

A) Heat sink
B) Thermal compound
C) Chipset
D) Power supply

Question 53

Which open specification is a 120-pin reversed PCI connector?

A) ACR
B) ExpressCard
C) CardBus
D) PCIe

Question 54

What type of CPU cooling uses some type of pump?

A) Liquid and phase-change
B) Thermal compound and thermal coupled
C) Induction and rotary fan
D) Auxiliary fan and thermal inductor

Question 55

When you press a key on the keyboard, data travels from the keyboard onto the bus to the CPU.

A) Backside
B) Internal data
C) External data
D) External AGP

Question 56

Several processors have PGA sockets. PGA stands for

A) Particle Graphic Accelerator
B) Pentium Grid Access
C) Pin Grid Array
D) Professional Golf Association

Question 57

To help speed up 3-D graphics, consider

A) A fast CPU with multiple pipelines
B) Built-in 3-D instructions that software applications can use
C) A good video adapter with a built-in processor and memory
D) All these methods will speed up 3-D graphics.

Question 58

PCI can send data in _____ mode.

A) Super duplex
B) Full CPU power
C) Half duplex
D) Super memory

Question 59

What socket type would be used on an Intel Core i7 -based computer?

A) LGA 7775
B) Slot 2
C) Socket 478
D) LGA 2011

Question 60

PCIe is a [ serial | parallel ] bus?

A) Serial
B) Parallel

Question 61

When you multiply the bus speed by a number called the multiplier, you determine the

A) Cache speed
B) Pipeline speed
C) Jumper speed
D) CPU speed

Question 62

The processor has cache memory inside the CPU called

A) L1 cache
B) L2 cache
C) L3 cache
D) L4 cache

Question 63

Which socket would be used for an AMD Opteron?

A) LGA 775
B) Socket A
C) Socket F
D) LGA1366

Question 64

A bus has a speed of 400MHz and a multiplier of 8. What is the CPU speed?

A) 320MHz
B) 3.2GHz
C) 32MHz
D) 3.2MHz

Question 65

When the CPU sends data to a modem or receives data from the keyboard, the data travels from one location to another on the motherboard along routes called

A) Beltways
B) Paths
C) Buses
D) Trans-data highway

Question 66

An engineering professor teaches CAS at the university. Which expansion slot would be best for the graphics card in the professor's computer?

A) PCI
B) PCI-X
C) AGP
D) PCIe

Question 67

A CPU has a speed of 2GHz and a 266MHz bus. What is the multiplier?

A) 2
B) 4.5
C) 5
D) 7.5
E) 9

Question 68

A gigahertz is cycles per second.

A) 100,000
B) 1,000,000
C) 1,000,000,000
D) 1,000,000,000,000

Question 69

The speed of a computer processor is measured in

A) Megabits per second
B) Nanoseconds
C) Gigabytes
D) Gigahertz

Question 70

Which method may be used to determine the speed of a processor?

A) Read the BIOS technical documentation.
B) Right-click My Computer or Computer and select Properties.
C) Read it off the heat sink mounted on top of the CPU.
D) Read it from the sticker attached to the outside of the computer.

Question 71

Which cooling solution would be the quietest?

A) Liquid-based
B) Additional case fans
C) Thermal paste
D) Lower air conditioning setting

Question 72

What is an advantage of having an SPGA over a PGA socket?

A) It provides more heat dissipation.
B) It enables a more powerful CPU to be inserted.
C) It prevents the CPU pins from being bent during installation.
D) It enables a computer to be virtualized.

Question 73

Which of the following devices commonly mount on top of the CPU to cool it?

A) Surge protector
B) Capacitor
C) Heat sink
D) Surge resistor

Question 74

What is the difference between a thermal pad and a thermal compound?

A) There is no difference.
B) The pad is a physical thing and the compound is a paste.
C) The pad is thicker than the compound.
D) Both require an adhesive, but the compound is messier.

Question 75

Buses, pipelines, cache, and word size

A) Are unimportant in the overall performance of a computer
B) Have an impact on computer speed
C) Determine the speed of data as it travels on the World Wide Web
D) Are related only to memory

Question 76

The speed of a computer

A) Is generally faster than the speed of the processor
B) Is exactly the speed of the processor
C) Is a result of several factors including memory, bus, and chipset speeds
D) Depends upon the monitor being used

Question 77

The speed at which data travels from the CPU to various components on the mother board is called the

A) Belt speed
B) Path speed
C) Bus speed
D) Cache speed

Question 78

What is the purpose of thermal paste?

A) It is used to clean adapter or memory module contacts.
B) It is used to grease the bearings of the power supply and CPU fan.
C) It is used to transfer heat from the CPU to the heat sink.
D) It is used to provide heat protection for devices such as the CPU, chipset, and power supply.

Question 79

A megahertz is cycles per second.

A) 100,000
B) 1,000,000
C) 1,000,000,000
D) 1,000,000,000,000

Question 80

Where are additional fans commonly placed?

A) On top of the processor
B) On top of the chipset
C) Near the power supply or lower front part of the case
D) Inside the power supply