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WGU - IT Foundations -D316 (100 questions
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Hardware
The physical parts of the computer.
Firmware
Provides control, monitoring, and data
manipulation of engineered products and systems.
Device Driver
Operates a particular type of device connected to a
computer.
Operating System
Coordinates interaction between hardware and
software.
What does BIOS stand for?
Basic Input/Output System.
BIOS
Provides runtime services for programs and
performs hardware initialization upon startup.
Soft Power
,Front power button acts like a relay to initiate
various power system changes depending on how
long the button is held.
Overclocking
Increasing the clock speed beyond what is
recommended in order to get enhanced
performance.
What two components need to support hardware
based virtualization in order to avoid software
based virtualization?
BIOS and the CPU.
What is important when flashing a BIOS on a
computer?
An uninterrupted power supply.
Beep Code
A series of beeps from the computer's speaker that
indicate a problem. The pattern, duration, and
number of beeps can sometimes indicate which
component is causing the issue.
Motherboard
Computer component that contains all the circuitry
that allows other components to communicate with
each other.
ATX
Advanced technology extended (ATX)
motherboards are motherboards that have the
processor and memory slots at right angles to
, expansion slots and in line with the fan output of
the power supply allowing the processor to run
cooler.
Micro ATX
Smaller version of the ATX though you can still it
into an ATX ready case. It has fewer expansion
slots, memory slots, etc. than ATX.
ITX
Motherboards that are developed at low power,
small form factor for specialty uses such as home
theater systems. This family of motherboards
consists of Mini, Nano, Pico, and Mobile models.
Chipset
A collection of chips that perform interface and
peripheral functions for the processor. They can be
divided up into two main functional groups: the
northbridge and the southbridge.
Northbridge
This is the set of circuitry or chips that performs
the management of high speed peripheral
communications such as video cars in PCIe slots
and processor to memory (RAM) communications.
It contains the frontside bus and it may contain a
backside bus as well.
Frontside Bus
Is part of the Northbridge and it connects the CPU
and the main memory. If a backside bus isn't
present the frontside bus also contains a cache.
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