ToC: Devices and Components

What PC component should you never open unless you have had special training; well beyond this course.

• RAM

• Hard Disk Drive

• Power Supply

• Central Processing Unit

What are the different sizes/shapes of cases known as?

• Bodies

• Form Factors

• Chasis

• They don't have a name

Power supplies convert ​ (a)   power into ​ (b)   power and distributes it throughout the system.

• AC
• DC
• PC
• CD
• DP
• HD
• WC

Motherboards are actually this type of material with many electrical pathways (buses) flowing through them.

• Laser Etched Board

• Copper Networked Circuit

• Port Broadcast Card

• Printed Circuit Board

The ​ (a)   is the "brains" of the computer, tying all the data connections together and doing the high level mathematical computations.

• CPU
• motherboard
• expansion slot
• hard drive
• RAM
• Optical Drive

Click the type of storage that is "volatile".

Standard DVDs use a ​ (a)   laser to read/write from their optical discs.

• red
• blue
• green
• white

This term is used to refer to the proliferation of adding historically "dumb" devices to the internet to make them "smart".

• PCB

• IoT

• IIS

• FtP

This term refers to a workstation that has just enough resources to connect to a server where the actual desktop environment and processing power resides.

• Thick Client

• Thin Client

• Dumb Client

• Smart Client

This type of workstation typically has a high end GPU.

• Gaming

• Virtualization

• Server

• Audio Editor