Cisco IT Essentials Chapter 1 Test

These two power connectors are commonly used to connect the power supply to the motherboard?

(Pick 2)

• 24 pin ATX

• Molex

• Berg

• 4 pin AUX

• SATA

The Northbridge of the motherboard's chipset is NOT responsible for which of the following.

• High speed access to RAM
• High speed access to Hard Drives
• High speed access to the video card
• The speed the CPU can communicate with components

The Southbridge of the motherboard's chipset is NOT responsible for which of the following.

• Connection to Hard Drives
• Connection to USB ports
• Connection to expansion slots
• Connection to video cards

Which of the following is NOT a common motherboard form factor?

• Mini-ITX
• Micro_ATX
• ATX
• MTX

Computer components perform better when kept cool _________ cooling requires the use of power.

• Passive
• Active
• Water

This is placed between the CPU and the heat sink to aide heat transfer.

• Thermal compound
• Water
• Heat Pipes

Most new ROM chips are this type which can be flashed and rewritten without removing it from the computer.

• PROM
• EPROM
• EEPROM
• ROM

RAM is called _____________ because if it loses power all the data it held will be lost.

• ROM
• volatile
• nonvolatile

Some memory modules check for errors in data one example of this is ECC or error correcting code, the other is this.

• Parity
• Nonparity
• DIMM
• SODIMM

Expansion slots on motherboards allow for installing cards that add functionality to your computer. Which one is NOT an example of an expansion card slot.

• PCI
• Mini-PCI
• ISP
• PCIe