Computer Firmware

For a keyboard or a monitor or a hard drive to work with a CPU, they must communicate via some kind of _________ connection.

• physical

• telekinetic

• wireless

• Bluetooth

what kind of chip connects the device to the CPU?

• Controller

• Integrated

• Circut cop

• Micro

When you press a key on your keyboard, a scanning chip in the keyboard notices which key you pressed. Then the scanner sends a coded pattern of ones and zeros called ____ to the keyboard controller.

• Communication bus

• trinary

• scan code

• Java code

In order for the CPU to talk with any device, it needs some kind of support programming loaded into memory. What is the name of this support program?

• Dr. Phil

• BIOS

• Operating System (OS)

• Google

What does BIOS stand for?

• Bits Input/Output System

• Bytes Input/Output System

• Board Input/Output System

• Basic Input/Output System

Does every device on the computer need to use BIOS?

• Yes

• No

Where is the BIOS physically located?

• Hard Drive/SSD

• RAM

• Motherboard

• CPU

ROM stands for . . .

• Read Only Memory

• Random Old Memory

• Rewritable Output Memory

• Read Ouput Motherboard

What is it called when you update the BIOS/firmware?

• Software Update

• Flashing the BIOS

• Blue Screen of Death

• Controller update

Modern systems use firmware programming called _______.

• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

• Unidentified Computing Firmware Interface (UCFI)

• Unbelievable Effort Firmware Interface (UEFI)

• Tik Tok