Chapter 01 Quiz Outline.pdf

IT Essentials Chapter 1 Quiz Outline Back to Top 20 MC Questions Electrical Safety Guidelines. o High voltage components. o AC adapters. o Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). ▪ Ways to prevent ESD damage....

IT Essentials Chapter 1 Quiz Outline Back to Top 20 MC Questions Electrical Safety Guidelines. o High voltage components. o AC adapters. o Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). ▪ Ways to prevent ESD damage. Cases. o Common Case Form Factors (there are four). ▪ Why are there case form factors that are not the same? Characteristics of Cooling Systems. o Passive vs. Active Cooling Systems. o Characteristics of Heat Sinks. o Characteristics of Case Fans. o Characteristics of Liquid Cooling. Characteristics of Power Supplies. o What do they do? o What are the two common modern form factors? o Power Supply Connectors. o DC voltages provided by power supplies. Characteristics of CPUs. o What do they do? o LGA vs. PGA. o Intel vs. AMD.  Motherboards & Chipsets. o Characteristics of Motherboards. ▪ What do they do? ▪ Common form factors and their characteristics. o Characteristics of Chipsets. ▪ What is the Platform Controller Hub (PCH)? ▪ Why did it replace the Northbridge and Southbridge configurations in older motherboards? ▪ What is the Memory Controller? ROM and RAM. o Volatile vs. Non-Volatile Memory. ▪ Examples of each. o Characteristics of ROM. ▪ What is the most common form of ROM on the market today and what are its characteristics (i.e., what makes it different from other types of ROM)? o Characteristics of RAM. ▪ What is the difference between DRAM and SRAM? ▪ What is the fastest type of RAM? ▪ L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 cache. ▪ Types of Error Handling. ▪ Nonparity. ▪ Parity. ▪ Error-Correction Code (ECC).