Cisco IT Essentials v5.0 Chapter - 1

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1. Which type of memory is primarily used as cache memory?

• DRAM
• RAM
• ROM
• SRAM

2. Which two considerations would be of the greatest importance when building a workstation that will run multiple virtual machines? (Choose two.)

• High-end sound card
• Number of CPU cores
• Water cooling
• Powerful video card
• Amount of RAM

3. Which two devices are considered input devices? (Choose two.)

• Digital camera
• Printer
• Speakers
• Biometric authentication device
• Projector

4. Which three devices are considered output devices? (Choose three.)

• Headphones
• Keyboard
• Fingerprint scanner
• Monitor
• Mouse
• Printer

5. A user playing a game on a gaming PC with a standard EIDE 5400 RPM hard drive finds the performance unsatisfactory. Which hard drive upgrade would improve performance while providing more reliability and using less power?

• A 7200 RPM SATA hard drive
• A 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive
• An SSD
• A 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive

6. Which hardware upgrade would allow the processor in a gaming PC to provide the optimal gaming performance?

• A fast EIDE drive
• Large amounts of fast RAM
• Liquid cooling
• A high capacity external hard drive

7. Which two storage devices use a magnetic medium for storing data? (Choose two.)

• tape drive
• Solid state drive
• Hard disk drive
• Compact disk drive
• Blue-ray disk drive

8.

Refer to the exhibit. Which type of adapter is shown?

• Network interface
• Sound
• Video
• RAID

9. Which component controls the communications and interactions between the CPU and other components on the motherboard?

• RAM
• CMOS
• Chipset
• BIOS

10 Which two pieces of information are needed before selecting a power supply? (Choose two.)

• The total wattage of all components
• The voltage requirements of peripheral devices
• The form factor of the case
• The type of CPU
• The installed operating system

11. Which memory module has a front side bus speed of 200 MHz?

• DDR3-667
• PC100 SDRAM
• DDR-400
• DDR-333

12. What are two factors that must be considered when choosing a computer case? (Choose two.)

• The number of LED indicators at the front of the case
• The size of the motherboard and the power supply
• The vendor that manufactured the motherboard
• The size of the monitor
• The number of internal drive locations

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14. Which unit of measurement is used to indicate the hard drive speed?

• Pages per minute
• Gigabytes
• Revolutions per minute
• Clusters per minute

15. Refer to the exhibit. Which type of video card expansion slot is depicted?

• PCIe
• ISA
• PCI
• AGP

16. What type of connector can be used to connect an eSATA interface to an external SATA drive?

• 7-pin connector
• 9-pin connector
• 15-pin connector
• 5-pin connector

17. Where can the input voltage selection be changed from 110 volts to 220 volts on a computer system?

• On the motherboard
• In the BIOS
• On the back of the power supply
• In the operating system control panel

18.

Refer to the exhibit. Which type of cable is shown in the graphic?

• USB
• Parallel
• FireWire
• Serial

20. Which two activities are normally controlled by the Northbridge part of the chipset? (Choose two.)

• Communication between the CPU and the sound card
• Communication between the CPU and the hard drive
• Access to the RAM
• Communication between the CPU and the I/O ports
• Access to the video card

21. A technician looks at a motherboard and sees a 24-pin connector. What component would connect to the motherboard through the use of this 24-pin connector?

• Power supply
• SATA drive
• Video card
• PATA optical drive
• Floppy drive