Motherboards and Power Supplies

USB 2.0 and which of the following ports share the same connector?

• Micro USB 2.0

• Mini USB 2.0

• Micro USB 3.0

• USB 3.0

Which of the following connections are typically on the external PC chassis? (Select TWO).

• AGP

• SAS

• IEEE1394

• eSATA

• IDE

The technician would like to upgrade a workstation by adding a USB 3.0 card, and upgrading the video card, sound card, and NIC. The technician is concerned about power

consumption by the expansion cards. Which of the following upgrades would MOST likely require also upgrading the power supply?

• Video card

• USB 3.0 card

• Sound card

• Network card

Which of the following uses a single connector to deliver both video and audio?

• DVI

• Serial

• VGA

• HDMI

Which of the following expansion slots uses a serial connection?

• PCI

• PCI-X

• PCIe

• AGP

Which of the following external ports would a technician use to connect a keyboard? (Select TWO).

• eSATA

• IEEE 1394

• USB

• PS/2

• VGA

Which of the following expansion cards would MOST likely have the requirements of utilizing a direct auxiliary 6-pin power plug to operate properly?

• PCI Express RAID card

• PCI Express video card

• PCI Express FireWire card

• PCI Express LAN card

Which of the following adapters converts an analog signal to a digital signal?

• S-Video to RCA

• HDMI to VGA

• VGA to DVI-D

• DVI-D to HDMI

On an ATX motherboard, the 4-pin auxiliary power connector provides which of the following?

• Additional power to onboard devices

• Additional power to PCIx peripheral cards

• Additional power to the South Bridge

• Additional power to the CPU voltage regulator

A technician is building a new PC and notices that it has 8 DIMM sockets labeled 0 through 7. Four are white and four are blue.
Which of the following should the technician do FIRST?

• Install the memory in the four white slots
• Install the memory in the four blue slots
• Consult the motherboard documentation
• Fill all slots with memory