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WorksheetsMotherboard Connections and parts
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of expansion slot is this?
a)
PCI-X
b)
SLI
c)
PCIe
d)
PCI
2.
What type of expansion slot is this?
a)
PCI-X
b)
PCIex1
c)
PCI
d)
PCIex16
3.
What type of expansion slot is this?
a)
PCIex16
b)
PCI-X
c)
PCI
d)
AGP
4.
What connects to this?
a)
Power button
b)
Front panel connection
c)
Fan
d)
Hard Drive
5.
This collection of pin connectors is known as?
a)
Back panel connections
b)
CPU socket
c)
Front panel connectors
d)
USB connection
6.
Which of the following is NOT typically on a front panel connection?
a)
Power button
b)
Video connector
c)
HDD activity light
d)
Reset button
7.
What connects to this block of pins with a missing corner pin?
a)
Front panel connector
b)
Secondary Power
c)
SATA
d)
USB
8.
This larger set of pins with a missing corner pin is an upgraded or newer version of the ___ connector.
a)
Front panel
b)
PCI
c)
USB
d)
Back panel
9.
What plugs into these slots with latches on both ends?
a)
PCI
b)
RAM
c)
PCI Express
d)
Hard Drive
10.
Which of the following is a standard number of pins on a motherboards ATX Power connection?
a)
24
b)
18
c)
6
d)
32
11.
A Secondary or CPU power connection on the motherboard can have 8 pins?
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Together the Northbridge and Southbridge are called the?
a)
Chipset
b)
BIOS
c)
CMOS
d)
Bridges
13.
This type of connection is called?
a)
IDE
b)
PATA
c)
SATA
d)
ATX
14.
This part of the motherboard is the ____ Battery
a)
BIOS
b)
SATA
c)
CMOS
d)
CIOS
15.
Which of the following is smaller than a Mini-ITX form factor?
a)
Pico-ITX
b)
Micro-ATX
c)
ATX-E
d)
ATX
16.
If a motherboard fan connection has 4 pins instead of 3, what does that allow?
a)
temperature monitoring
b)
fan speed control
c)
error reporting
d)
electric fault protection
17.
What is the name of the data connection commonly used for hard drives and optical drives?
a)
RAID
b)
ATX
c)
RAM
d)
SATA
18.
How many individual one directional lanes connect a PCIex16 slot?
a)
8
b)
16
c)
24
d)
32
19.
PCI and PCI-X communicate over this type of bus architecture
a)
Parallel
b)
Serial
c)
Express
d)
Dual
20.
PCIe communicates over this type of bus architecture.
a)
Serial
b)
Express
c)
Parallel
d)
Not this one
21.
Which of these expansion slots has the fastest transfer rates?
a)
PCIex8
b)
PCI-X
c)
PCI
d)
PCIex1
22.
The most common RAM slots on consumer motherboards today are
a)
DROM
b)
DIMM
c)
SSD
d)
CMOS
23.
Before SATA which stands for Serial-ATA, we used a data connection that used Parallel ATA technology now called PATA. What was the common name for this type of connection?
a)
DVI
b)
pre-SATA
c)
IDE
d)
SO-DIMM
24.
Before USB was common the keyboard and mouse were connected with their own dedicated circular plugs called.
a)
PS/2
b)
SCSI
c)
VGA
d)
I/O
25.
PCIex16 is commonly used for video cards now, but this was a previous type of expansion port which held video cards for household PC's in the past.
a)
AGP
b)
PCI-X
c)
DVI
d)
Coax
26.
The notches on an expansion slot are often physical indicators of:
a)
The possible power requirements of that card
b)
The possible transfer speeds of that card
c)
The upgrade potential of that card
d)
The expected heat output of that card
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