Jeopardy CST8208 Final Review Part 1 PDF

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 More Laser General Printer Laser Printers Audio Adapters Booting Printers Stuff 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 This is the “ink” used in a laser printer  Answer 1 – 10 Toner  Question 1 - 20 This is the fourth step in the laser printing process during which toner is attracted to some portions of the photosensitive drum  Answer 1 – 20 Developing  Question 1 - 30 The primary corona is used in this step of the laser printing process  Answer 1 – 30 Charging/conditioning  Question 1 - 40 This component of a laser printer alters the charge on the photosensitive drum  Answer 1 – 40 The laser  Question 1 - 50 A doctor blade or control blade is used with this cylinder to limit the amount of toner used for printing  Answer 1 – 50 Developing cylinder  Question 2 - 10 This is the reason that toner is attracted to portions of the photosensitive drum that are hit by the laser  Answer 2 – 10 Those areas are more positive than the areas that aren’t hit by the laser (and more positive than the toner)  Question 2 - 20 This provides a small charge to the paper as it enters the laser printer  Answer 2 – 20 Transfer corona or transfer roller  Question 2 - 30 This is what bonds the toner to the paper  Answer 2 – 30 Fuser  Question 2 - 40 This is the name of the first step of the printing process  Answer 2 – 40 Processing  Question 2 - 50 An erasure lamp is used during this step of the laser printing process  Answer 2 – 50 Cleaning  Question 3 - 10 This type of printer is capable of printing carbon copy forms  Answer 3 – 10 Dot matrix (impact printer)  Question 3 - 20 These are the two modes that dot matrix printers can print in  Answer 3 – 20 Font Mode and Dot Addressable Mode  Question 3 - 30 This type of printer uses liquid ink sprayed through nozzles  Answer 3 – 30 Ink Jet  Question 3 - 40 In ink jet printers, the drop on demand method can be further broken down into these two types of drop on demand ink delivery methods  Answer 3 – 40 Thermal Piezoelectric  Question 3 - 50 These are the two methods dot matrix printers use to advance the paper  Answer 3 – 50 Tractor feed and friction feed  Question 4 - 10 This is the main processor of a sound card  Answer 4 – 10 DSP  Question 4 - 20 This type of compressed sound file removes sounds humans can’t hear  Answer 4 – 20 Lossy (ex. MP3)  Question 4 - 30 This is the colour of the 3.5 mm microphone connector on a sound card  Answer 4 – 30 Pink  Question 4 - 40 While PCs can typically use a discrete add-on sound card inserted into an expansion slot, most systems instead use this.  Answer 4 – 40 Audio adapter integrated in the motherboard  Question 4 - 50 This is the number of speakers in a 7.1 surround sound system  Answer 4 – 50 8 (including subwoofer)  Question 5 - 10 This is the name of the set of tests and checks a computer performs on itself at boot  Answer 5 – 10 POST (Power On Self Test)  Question 5 - 20 This is the name of a small program stored in your system ROM that allows a computer to start and load an OS  Answer 5 – 20 Bootstrap loader  Question 5 - 30 This is the type of boot that occurs if a system has been completely shut off before being turned back on  Answer 5 – 30 Cold boot  Question 5 - 40 This is the name of the data that’s stored in the CMOS that contains information about the last successful boot  Answer 5 – 40 ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data)  Question 5 - 50 This is the name of the signal sent by the power supply very early in the boot process and that must remain constant in order for a PC to continue to function  Answer 5 – 50 Power good signal  I’m Only Here These Headings Because You I PC Don’t Actually Talk Nerdy To Me Broke Something Hardware Geek-Speak Mean Anything 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 This level of RAID can withstand the failure of two hard drives and still recover  Answer 1 – 10 RAID 6  Question 1 - 20 This is the bus width of the PCI-X expansion bus  Answer 1 – 20 64 bits  Question 1 - 30 This is the term used for setting aside a portion of a solid state drive to be only used for maintenance  Answer 1 – 30 Overprovisioning  Question 1 - 40 SAS cards can also support drives of this interface type  Answer 1 – 40 SATA  Question 1 - 50 Amazingly, dot matrix printers are still being manufactured today. The 18-pin head is not very common, but these other two are still popular choices  Answer 1 – 50 9 pin and 24 pin  Question 2 - 10 If an A-type USB port has sleep-and-charge capabilities, it’s usually one of these two colours  Answer 2 – 10 Red or yellow  Question 2 - 20 Which type of ROM allows you to flash it using a software utility?  Answer 2 – 20 EEPROM  Question 2 - 30 This is the effective bus speed of DDR2 memory that’s known as PC2-6400  Answer 2 – 30 800 MHz  Question 2 - 40 This is the type of boot that needs to be completed when a system is completely and properly shut down, then powered back up  Answer 2 – 40 Cold boot  Question 2 - 50 These are the colours of ink cartridges in an ink jet printer  Answer 2 – 50 Cyan, magenta, yellow and black  Question 3 - 10 An older competitor with USB, this external expansion option that you saw on the iMacs was officially known as IEEE 1394  Answer 3 – 10 Firewire  Question 3 - 20 In this step of the laser printing process the paper is given a small charge in order to attract the toner from the photosensitive drum  Answer 3 – 20 Transferring  Question 3 - 30 This is the name of the transfer mode used with USB 2.0  Answer 3 – 30 Hi speed  Question 3 - 40 This is the resulting speed of a processor that uses a 200 MHz base clock speed and a 17x multiplier  Answer 3 – 40 3.4 GHz  Question 3 - 50 This is the reason that a PC doesn’t do its memory count during POST on a warm boot  Answer 3 – 50 During a warm boot the system is never actually turned off, and a system needs to be turned off to add or remove memory, thus the memory count wouldn’t change  Question 4 - 10 USB is considered “host based” because it requires a host to coordinate data transfers. FireWire, on the other hand, is considered this.  Answer 4 – 10 Peer to peer  Question 4 - 20 This is the most common frequency/refresh rate of a typical LCD monitor  Answer 4 – 20 60 Hz  Question 4 - 30 This is the name of AMD’s most common server processor  Answer 4 – 30 Epyc  Question 4 - 40 This is the maximum transfer rate of the most recent (third) generation of SATA  Answer 4 – 40 6 Gb/s  Question 4 - 50 This type of card, available in 34 mm and 54 mm, replaced PC Cards for the external expansion slot capabilities in laptop computers  Answer 4 – 50 ExpressCard  Question 5 - 10 This is the colour of a USB 3.0 port  Answer 5 – 10 Blue  Question 5 - 20 This is what should be plugged into the green connector on the back of a sound card  Answer 5 – 20 Front speakers  Question 5 - 30 These are the two other common names for a motherboard  Answer 5 – 30 System board and main board  Question 5 - 40 In a solid state drive pages of data can’t be erased individually. A group of pages that are all erased at the same time is known as this.  Answer 5 – 40 A block  Question 5 - 50 Both parity memory and ECC memory use a parity bit to detect single bit errors. This is how they react differently to single bit errors.  Answer 5 – 50 Parity memory requests that the data be resent, and ECC corrects it on the fly  The CPUs and Always Tip Your More Server Troubleshooting Expansion Bus Sockets Server Stuff Procedure 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 This is the first step in the troubleshooting procedure during which beep codes and error messages could assist you.  Answer 1 – 10 Identify the problem  Question 1 - 20 If you suspect you’ll have to make changes to a clients system, you should make on of these.  Answer 1 – 20 A backup  Question 1 - 30 In this, the third step in the troubleshooting process, you may temporarily swap out hardware with tests components you have available, or attempt to use generic drivers in place of the suspect ones.  Answer 1 – 30 Test the theory  Question 1 - 40 After you’ve implemented your solution, you should do this - the fifth step in the troubleshooting process  Answer 1 – 40 Verify functionality  Question 1 - 50 Though this is the name of the sixth and last step in the troubleshooting process, it really should be done throughout  Answer 1 – 50 Document findings  Question 2 - 10 On the lab systems (and most systems) this is used to indicate the location of pin 1 on a CPU socket  Answer 2 – 10 A gold triangle  Question 2 - 20 The type of socket that has the “pins” in the socket rather than on the processor is known as this  Answer 2 – 20 LGA  Question 2 - 30 A small amount of this should be applied between the CPU and the CPU heatsink  Answer 2 – 30 Thermal compound  Question 2 - 40 Intel’s main competitor in the CPU market, this company manufacturers processors such as Epyc and Ryzen  Answer 2 – 40 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)  Question 2 - 50 This is a feature used by many Intel desktop processors that makes it appear to the operating systems that they have twice as many cores as they actually contain.  Answer 2 – 50 Hyper threading  Question 3 - 10 This expansion bus transfers data in serial form and is the most common internal expansion bus used in today’s PCs  Answer 3 – 10 PCI Express  Question 3 - 20 This parallel 32-bit bus has been used by PCs for the past two decades, but is finally being phased out.  Answer 3 – 20 PCI  Question 3 - 30 This is the only expansion slot that allowed for backward compatibility with traditional PCI cards  Answer 3 – 30 PCI-X  Question 3 - 40 This is how you would describe the shortest PCIe slot used in modern motherboards  Answer 3 – 40 x1  Question 3 - 50 Most modern expansion buses support self configuration, which is known by this name  Answer 3 – 50 Plug and Play  Question 4 - 10 This is the width of a standard server rack  Answer 4 – 10 19 inches  Question 4 - 20 This is the height of a 5 U server chassis  Answer 4 – 20 8.75 inches  Question 4 - 30 This is the number of pins that the main power connector for a server motherboard would have (hint: same as ATX)  Answer 4 – 30 24  Question 4 - 40 This is the most common server-class Intel processor line  Answer 4 – 40 Xeon  Question 4 - 50 This is the term used to describe a server that has no connected monitor  Answer 4 – 50 Headless  Question 5 - 10 These are two types of memory that can be used in servers (though servers don’t necessarily require them)  Answer 5 – 10 ECC (Error Correcting Code) Buffered/Registered  Question 5 - 20 This is the name of a modular rack-mounted enclosure that makes very efficient use of space and allows you to add more servers to it as necessary  Answer 5 – 20 Blade server enclosure  Question 5 - 30 This is the name of the fault tolerant power supplies often found in servers  Answer 5 – 30 Redundant power supplies  Question 5 - 40 This is an example of something that’s often integrated into the motherboard of a desktop PC but not normally found on a server motherboard  Answer 5 – 40 Audio adapter capabilities  Question 5 - 50 If you would like to physically connect a number of servers to a single monitor, mouse and keyboard, you could use one of these  Answer 5 – 50 KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch General Motherboards Laptops Hard Drives Hard Drives II 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 This type of screwdriver is used to disassemble and reassemble most desktop computer systems  Answer 1 – 10 #2 Phillips  Question 1 - 20 This type of screw is usually used to secure optical drives in a desktop PC  Answer 1 – 20 Pan-head M3 screw (fine thread)  Question 1 - 30 This is what you’re trying to prevent by using an anti static strap  Answer 1 – 30 Damage due to ESD (electro static discharge)  Question 1 - 40 This type of screw is used in desktop computers for card retention, securing the case sides and power supply installation  Answer 1 – 40 Hex-head 6-32 (coarse thread)  Question 1 - 50 This type of screwdriver is used to remove screws from most laptops  Answer 1 – 50 #1 Phillips  Question 2 - 10 This is a term used to describe the dimensions and location of screw holes in a component such as a motherboard for compatibility within a standard  Answer 2 – 10 Form factor  Question 2 - 20 This type of motherboard (or variants thereof) is the most popular type in use today  Answer 2 – 20 ATX  Question 2 - 30 This obsolete type of motherboard has the IO ports on the opposite side to other common types of motherboards used in desktop computers  Answer 2 – 30 BTX  Question 2 - 40 This type of motherboard is quite small and designed for use in home theater PCs  Answer 2 – 40 Mini-ITX  Question 2 - 50 This is the name for a number of microchips on a motherboard that traditionally have included the Northbridge and Southbridge  Answer 2 – 50 Chipset  Question 3 - 10 This is the physical size (width) of most hard drives in a laptop computer  Answer 3 – 10 2.5 inch  Question 3 - 20 This is the name given to most memory modules designed for use in laptop computers  Answer 3 – 20 SO-DIMM  Question 3 - 30 This is the most common type of battery used in laptops today  Answer 3 – 30 Lithium Ion  Question 3 - 40 If an Intel-based laptop is running the processor at a fraction of its advertised speed when the laptop is unplugged and the user is working in an application that isn’t processor intensive, it’s using this.  Answer 3 – 40 SpeedStep  Question 3 - 50 This was the external expansion slot that replaced the PC Card (PCMCIA) expansion slot in laptops  Answer 3 – 50 ExpressCard  Question 4 - 10 This is the size of a bay in a desktop computer that holds a typical mechanical hard drive like the ones you used in lab  Answer 4 – 10 3.5 inch  Question 4 - 20 These are the three most common rotational speeds of mechanical hard drives today  Answer 4 – 20 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM and 10000 RPM  Question 4 - 30 This is the name of the rigid disks within the hard drive  Answer 4 – 30 Platters  Question 4 - 40 Each side of each platter is made up of concentric circles that hold data. These circles are known as these  Answer 4 – 40 Tracks  Question 4 - 50 Each track is broken into smaller areas that have traditionally held 512 bytes each that are known as this.  Answer 4 – 50 Sectors  Question 5 - 10 Some recent hard drives have sectors that are larger than 512 bytes. These drives are known by this name.  Answer 5 – 10 Advanced format drives  Question 5 - 20 This is the term used to describe a situation in which the read/write heads in the drive come in contact with the platter and often results in loss of data.  Answer 5 – 20 Head crash  Question 5 - 30 Usually made up of multiple sectors, this is the smallest portion of a hard drive as seen by the operating system  Answer 5 – 30 Cluster or allocation unit  Question 5 - 40 These are the two filters that can be found in mechanical hard drives  Answer 5 – 40 Recirculating filter and barometric filter  Question 5 - 50 This is the type of linear motor used in modern hard drives to move the actuator arm  Answer 5 – 50 Voice coil motor  Cooling and Hard Drives III RAID RAID II Solid State Drives Clocking 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 This is the collective name of all of the tracks on all sides of all platters of the same diameter  Answer 1 – 10 Cylinder  Question 1 - 20 This has been a common method of addressing used by hard drives that gives every sector a unique address  Answer 1 – 20 Logical block addressing (LBA)  Question 1 - 30 This optimizes the use of space in modern hard drives by having progressively more sectors per track on outer tracks compared to inner tracks on a platter  Answer 1 – 30 ZBR (Zone Bit Recording)  Question 1 - 40 These are the two consumer-level hard drive interface connections that we’ve discussed (one that’s used with the hard drives in lab and one older technology)  Answer 1 – 40 SATA and PATA  Question 1 - 50 This is the name of the hard drive monitoring capabilities that can give you an indication of a hard drive’s health  Answer 1 – 50 SMART  Question 2 - 10 These are the two main reasons for using RAID  Answer 2 – 10 Performance increase and fault tolerance  Question 2 - 20 This is the minimum number of drives necessary for RAID 4  Answer 2 – 20 3  Question 2 - 30 This level of RAID is known as striping with dual rotating parity  Answer 2 – 30 RAID 6  Question 2 - 40 This level of RAID provides no fault tolerance  Answer 2 – 40 RAID 0  Question 2 - 50 This would be the resulting parity byte if you were running RAID 3, 4 or 5 and the following data were being calculated : 10011111, 01010101 and 00001010  Answer 2 – 50 11000000  Question 3 - 10 This is the name given to RAID level 1  Answer 3 – 10 Mirroring  Question 3 - 20 This is the name given to a drive that’s connected to a RAID controller and powered to be used immediately in the event of a drive failure  Answer 3 – 20 Hot spare  Question 3 - 30 This is the type of RAID implementation that doesn’t use a dedicated card or an onboard RAID solution. It uses your system resources to organize data and calculate parity  Answer 3 – 30 Software RAID  Question 3 - 40 This is the term used for plugging or unplugging a component without shutting off the computer  Answer 3 – 40 Hot plugging (or hot swapping)  Question 3 - 50 This is the size of the logical drive seen within the operating system if you set up RAID 5 on six 2 TB drives  Answer 3 – 50 10 TB  Question 4 - 10 This is the term given to cooling that uses a heatsink only and no fan  Answer 4 – 10 Passive cooling  Question 4 - 20 Even if your desktop system doesn’t have an operating system installed, you can still go here to check the temperature of the CPU  Answer 4 – 20 CMOS setup program  Question 4 - 30 If you’re installing a 3.0 GHz processor that is using a 200 MHz bus speed, you would set the multiplier to this  Answer 4 – 30 15x  Question 4 - 40 If your 1.8 GHz processor is using a 16x multiplier and a 100 MHz bus speed, it is this.  Answer 4 – 40 Underclocked  Question 4 - 50 This type of cooling uses a pump, radiator and reservoir  Answer 4 – 50 Liquid (water) cooling  Question 5 - 10 These are the reasons that solid state drives are generally considered better than traditional mechanical hard drives  Answer 5 – 10 Extremely fast data transfer Light weight No mechanical failure No head crashes No vibration Very little power and heat  Question 5 - 20 This is the smallest addressable area that a file or portion of a file can be written to on a solid state drive  Answer 5 – 20 Page  Question 5 - 30 This can be enabled in modern operating systems to notify an SSD of a file deletion, making garbage collection more efficient  Answer 5 – 30 TRIM  Question 5 - 40 This is employed to ensure that data is spread out across the entire drive to ensure that the cells wear evenly  Answer 5 – 40 Wear leveling  Question 5 - 50 This is the multiplying effect of data that’s been rewritten many times for garbage collection purposes  Answer 5 – 50 Write amplification  Power Supplies Random Memory More Memory This and That and Power Questions Protection 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50  Question 1 - 10 Memory that is lost when power is no longer supplied is known as this  Answer 1 – 10 Volatile  Question 1 - 20 This type of volatile memory is very fast and located within the CPU packaging  Answer 1 – 20 Cache memory  Question 1 - 30 Cache memory is known as this type of RAM  Answer 1 – 30 SRAM  Question 1 - 40 The circuit boards that contain memory such as DDR2 and DDR3 are known as these  Answer 1 – 40 Memory modules  Question 1 - 50 Data stored in a ROM chip is known as this  Answer 1 – 50 Firmware  Question 2 - 10 This is the most common type of memory module used for modern desktop PCs  Answer 2 – 10 DIMMs  Question 2 - 20 If parity memory were using even parity and the data byte being sent was 11001001, this is what the parity bit would be.  Answer 2 – 20 0  Question 2 - 30 The fastest type of cache memory found in a PC is known as this  Answer 2 – 30 L1 cache  Question 2 - 40 Today’s systems are transitioning away from legacy BIOS in favour of this  Answer 2 – 40 UEFI  Question 2 - 50 This is the term used for reprogramming or altering the data contained with a ROM chip  Answer 2 – 50 Flashing  Question 3 - 10 This is typically used in very small amounts between a processor and heatsink to efficiently transfer heat  Answer 3 – 10 Thermal compound  Question 3 - 20 In a solid state drive pages of data can’t be erased individually. A group of pages that are all erased at the same time is known as this.  Answer 3 – 20 A block  Question 3 - 30 ExpressCards can come in these two sizes.  Answer 3 – 30 Expresscard 34 and 54 (34mm and 54mm)  Question 3 - 40 These are what the motherboard in a typical desktop PC are mounted to, and they in turn are mounted to the chassis  Answer 3 – 40 Standoffs (jackscrews)  Question 3 - 50 This type of SSD has an extremely long life span, but is also very expensive so it’s typically not found in home computers  Answer 3 – 50 SLC (Single-layer cell)  Question 4 - 10 The amount of power that a power supply can deliver to the components of a system is measured in this  Answer 4 – 10 Watts (wattage)  Question 4 - 20 A PCIe power connector is often used for video cards in modern systems and has only yellow wires and black wires. This is the voltage you should expect from a yellow wire  Answer 4 – 20 + 12 volts  Question 4 - 30 This is the voltage you should expect from a red wire coming from a PC power supply  Answer 4 – 30 +5 volts  Question 4 - 40 This is the component of a surge suppressor that is often destroyed by absorbing a large power surge or spike in order to spare connected devices from damage  Answer 4 – 40 MOV (metal oxide varistor)  Question 4 - 50 This voltage was commonly provided by ATX 1.0 power supplies via a white wire, but is no longer provided by ATX 2.0 power supplies  Answer 4 – 50 -5 volts  Question 5 - 10 A page of data on a solid state drive that has previously held active data, but now doesn’t and has been slated to be erased during garbage collection is known by this name.  Answer 5 – 10 A stale page  Question 5 - 20 This is the name of the main motherboard power connector  Answer 5 – 20 P1  Question 5 - 30 This is an offline BPS device which includes a battery that only powers the system in the event of a power failure  Answer 5 – 30 SPS  Question 5 - 40 This is the name for dedicating a portion of a SSD to be used for maintenance and left unavailable to the user  Answer 5 – 40 Over-provisioning  Question 5 - 50 This is what DDR2 800 is also known as  Answer 5 – 50 PC2-6400