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Mobo Buses

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What external bus theoretically supports up to 127 devices?

a)

Firewire

b)

Serial

c)

USB

d)

PS/2

2.

What type of port is indicated by the red rectangle?

a)

Parallel

b)

Serial

c)

VGA

d)

PS/2

3.

Which of these would you NOT find on a PCI bus?

a)

VGA

b)

10/100 Ethernet

c)

Integrated Audio

d)

HDMI

4.

What bus does ESATA run on?

a)

PCI

b)

PCI-Express

c)

SATA

d)

RAM

5.

Which of the following does a PC bus have?

a)

Traces

b)

Current

c)

Protocols that govern them

d)

All of these

6.

How much data does a serial bus transfer at a time?

a)

1 bit

b)

1 byte

c)

8 bits

d)

32kb

7.

How much data does a parallel bus transfer at a time?

a)

1 bit

b)

1 byte

c)

16 bytes

d)

32 kb

8.

Which type of bus is faster?

a)

Serial

b)

Parallel

c)

Neither

9.

What term refers to when data on one wire alters data on a neighboring wire?

a)

Skewing

b)

Crosstalk

c)

Attenuation

d)

Overhead

10.

What bus was created explicitly to replace PCI for Video purposes but was shortly replaced by PCI-e

a)

PCI-X

b)

PCI-G

c)

AGP

d)

BTX

11.

What bus comes with x1, x4, x8, and x16 slots?

a)

PCI

b)

PCI-E

c)

USB

d)

AGP

12.

What motherboard slot was created primarily for high-speed solid state storage cards that replace traditional hard drives?

a)

PCI-E

b)

SATA

c)

SCSI

d)

M.2

13.

Which of the following is NOT handled by the Southbridge?

a)

I/OCH

b)

PCI Bus

c)

USB

d)

RAM

14.

What term is used to refer to when one component is slowing down the rest of the system?

a)

Rubbernecking

b)

Siphon

c)

Bottlenecking

d)

Roughnecking