ITE Chapter 1 Exam Answer 2016

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ITE Chapter 1 Exam Answer 2016

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*

19. 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*

20. 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