IT Essentials
PC Hardware &
Software v5.0
Chapter 1 – Introduction to the PC
Jeopardy Review
Darren Shaver
Kubasaki High School
Okinawa, Japan
Motherboard
Main
System
Storage
Components
Input/
Output
Cables &
More
Final Jeopardy
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Menu
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Motherboard
100
Answer:
The size and shape of
motherboards or computer
case.
Question:
What is a form factor?
Motherboard
200
Answer:
Two types of the common
form factors used for building
computers.
Question:
What are ATX, Mini-ATX, Micro-ATX,
NLX, LPX, BTX? (Only two required for answer)
Motherboard
300
Answer:
The 24-pin connector serves
this purpose for the mother
board…
Question:
What is deliver power?
Motherboard
400
Answer:
What does the chipset
(Northbridge & Southbridge)
do?
Question:
What is communicate between the
CPU and the rest of the motherboard?
Motherboard
500
Answer:
The Northbridge chip set
controls these items.
Question:
The speed and access at which the CPU can
communicate with RAM and the video card?
Main System
100
Answer:
Before buying this component,
a technician should consider
the case form factor and the
total power requirement for
the system components.
Question:
What is a power supply?
Main System
200
Answer:
Power supplies often have this
to allow PCs to be sold in
different countries.
Question:
What are voltage switches from 110v to
220v?
Main System
300
Answer:
Cache uses this type of
memory to store data
frequently needed by the CPU.
Question:
What is SRAM?
Main System
400
Answer:
These are very important to
consider when building a
system to run virtual
machines.
Question:
What are RAM and number of CPU
cores?
Main System
500
Answer:
How does the speed of the
front side bus relate to the
speed of DDR memory?
Question:
What is the memory is generally two times
faster (Double Data Rate) than the bus speed?
Storage
100
Answer:
This type of magnetic storage
device for large files and operating
systems is less reliable because it
has moving parts and consumes
more electricity.
Question:
What is a HDD (Hard Disk Drive)?
Storage
200
Answer:
Two types of magnetic storage
devices.
Question:
What are Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Floppy
Disk Drives (FDD), and Tape drives?
Storage
300
Answer:
Two reasons for upgrading to
an SSD?
Question:
What are reliability, performance and
ability to withstand high g forces?
Storage
400
Answer:
Stacks of hard disk drives
programmed to act as a
single disk and protect
against failure.
Question:
What is a RAID?
Inexpensive Disks)
(Redundant Array of
Storage
500
Answer:
Hard drives and motors use
this measurement for speed.
Question:
What is RPM (Revolutions per
Minute)?
Components
100
Answer:
This type of memory retains its
contents even when the
computer is powered down
(non-volatile).
Question:
What is ROM?
Components
200
Answer:
Identify the following
components:
Question:
What are NIC, Wireless NIC,
Graphics Adapter Card and CPU?
Components
300
Answer:
Name two of the
pictured
expansion slots.
Question:
What are AGP, PCI and PCIExpress?
Components
400
Answer:
Upgrade this component to get
the best performance boost
for your system.
Question:
What is RAM?
Components
500
Answer:
Type of adaptor card used to
transfer a video signal to a
computer.
Question:
What is a video capture card?
Input/Output
100
Answer:
Term used when measuring
the number of pixels(width &
length) on a computer
monitor.
Question:
What is resolution? e.g.: 1280x1024
Input/Output
200
Answer:
Two most common output
devices.
Question:
What are the monitor and
printer?
Input/Output
300
Answer:
Two most common input
devices.
Question:
What are keyboard and mouse
(pointing device)?
Input/Output
400
Answer:
Input device often used to
create images of families and
pets.
Question:
What are digital cameras?
Input/Output
500
Answer:
Output device that employs
the use of polarizing filters
with a liquid crystal solution
between them.
Question:
What is an LCD Monitor?
Cables & More
100
Answer:
Question:
What is 7?
SATA data cables have this
many conductors.
Cables & More
200
Answer:
This peripheral port uses the
IEEE 1284 Standard and is
often used to send data 8 bits
at a time to printers.
Question:
What is a parallel port?
Cables & More
300
Answer:
The legacy port pictured here
is used for communications
and sends one bit of data at a
time.
Question:
What is a serial port?
25-pin configuration)
(Also comes in
Cables & More
400
Answer:
Feature for a USB cable not
found in a serial cable.
Question:
What is power to run external devices?
Cables & More
500
Answer:
The types of connectors for IEEE
1394a and IEEE 1394b.
Question:
What are 6-pin or 4-pin for 1394a and 9-pin
for 1394b?
Answer:
Features of RAID Levels 1, 5, &
0/1
Question:
What are
1: Disk Mirroring, high performance, high cost
0/1: Combo of striping and mirroring, high performance
Question:
and data protection, high cost
5: Combo of striping and parity, supports simultaneous
requests, slower than 0 or 1
Input/Output 300
Daily Double
Answer:
Name of three additional input
devices.
Question:
What are smart board, touchpad, scanner,
web cam, microphone, etc.?
Cables & More 100
Daily Double
Answer:
Question:
What is 15?
Number of pins for a SATA power
connector.