1. What is the most common motherboard form factor for today's desktop PCs?
ATX
Mini ATX
Micro ATX
Server
Inverter
2. What is the maximum amount of USB 2.0 devices possible on one port?
8
1024
55
127
3. What is hyper-threading?
The hyper-charging of threads in a computer to make it process data faster.
The breakup of multi-threaded applications to be processed by two virtual processors.
Independent processing done by two complete CPU cores.
The lacing of data in memory to be processed.
4. What happens when your RAM fills up and your computer demands more?
The computer shuts down and reboots.
Applications terminate non-sequentially as you use them.
A notification comes up in front of your work and tells you that your computer lacks system resources.
Information is temporarily written to your hard drive for access by the CPU.
5. What is necessary for an SCSI drive interface chain to operate?
The end of the chain must be terminated to allow data flow.
The drives have to be ordered from least capacity to most capacity.
SCSI does not use a chain, and therefore does not need anything to make it operate.
All drives must be of the same speed.
6. Which sequence is correct?
Terabyte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte
Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte
Gigabyte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte
Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte, Gigabyte
7. What is the typical hard drive speed for current desktop computers?
3600 RPM
4200 RPM
5400 RPM
7200 RPM
10000 RPM
15000 RPM
8. What is the optimal speed for an SATA drive device?
150 Mb/s
3.2 Gb/s
22.9 Gb/s
64 Mb/s
9. What is Nvidea's SLi configuration?
A video card installed in the PCI-E 2x slot.
Two cards running in parallel to achieve extremely high graphics performance.
Nvidea does not use SLi, it is a creation of ATI.
There is no such configuration.
10. The Pentium D and Athlon X2 processors are significant for what reason?
They are used only in notebook systems.
They must be used only in servers because motherboards of regular computers can't handle their immense performance.
They both utilize dual CPU cores to increase system speed.
They were the first processors ever released by Intel and AMD.
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