CMO Practice Quiz Competency 1.1 - Part 2

A technician looks at a motherboard and sees a 24-pin connector. What component would connect to the motherboard through the use of this 24-pin connector?

• video card

• power supply

• PATA optical drive

• 
  floppy drive

What activitiy is normally controlled by the Northbridge part of the chipset?

• Access to the RAM

• communication between the CPU and the I/O ports

• 
  Communication between the CPU and the I/O ports

• 
  Communication between the CPU and the hard drive

Which component usually interface directly with the Southbridge chipset on the motherboard?

• Video card

• RAM

• PCIe slots

• USB ports

Which statement describes the proper use of an anti-static wrist strap?

• 
  An anti-static wrist strap should not be used in conjunction with an antistatic mat.

• 
  For optimum grounding, the clip should be attached to a painted section of the computer case.

• 
  The anti-static wrist strip should not be attached to any grounded object.

• 
  An anti-static wrist strap should make contact with the skin.

A technician is building a thick client workstation that would be used to run a database and wants to ensure the best protection against errors. What type of memory would be best suited for this?

• 
  RDRAM

• ECC

• 
  DDR3

• DDR2

Which type of memory is primarily used as cache memory?

• 
  DRAM

• ROM

• 
  RAM

• 
  SRAM

Which adapter would a technician install in a desktop computer to enable a video signal to be recorded from a video recorder to the computer hard drive?

• 
  Video adapter

• 
  TV tuner card

• 
  Video capture card

• network interface card

Which storage devices use a magnetic medium for storing data?

• 
  tape drive

• solid state drive

• 
  blue-ray disk drive

• 
  compact disk drive

Which unit of measurement is used to indicate the hard drive speed?

• gigabytes

• 
  pages per minute

• clusters per minute

• revolutions per minute

What three voltages are commonly provided by the power supply to the various components inside the computer?

• 
  3.3 volts

• 
  9 volts

• 
  24 volts

• 
  48 volts