UEFI vs BIOS Quiz

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¿Qué característica no incluye UEFI?

Compatibilidad con sistemas operativos antiguos

¿Cuál es una de las ventajas de UEFI en comparación con BIOS?

El proceso de arranque es más rápido

¿Qué fue creado en la década de 1990 para reemplazar al BIOS?

UEFI

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  • UEFI is a firmware successor, written in C, to the BIOS.

  • In the mid-1990s, technology companies realized that the BIOS was becoming obsolete, and 140 of them joined together to create UEFI to renovate it.

  • UEFI has additional functions and improvements over the BIOS, such as a more modern graphical interface, a secure startup system, and support for larger hard drives.

  • UEFI can connect to the Internet to update itself.

  • The boot process of a computer running UEFI is faster than that of a computer running the BIOS.

  • UEFI supports secure boot, which tries to prevent the startup of unauthorized systems.

  • UEFI can be loaded onto any memory device that is not volatile, which allows it to be independent of any operating system.

  • UEFI can be extended with third-party tools, such as tools for overclocking or diagnostic software.

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