Devry Comp129 Week 2 Quiz Letast 2015 october

Devry Comp129 Week 2 Quiz Letast 2015 october

1. Question : (TCO 3) Major microprocessor manufacturers are _____.

Student Answer: Apple, Gateway, and Dell

Intel, Motorola, and AMD

Maxtor, Seagate, and Sony

Microsoft, 3-Com, and Oracle

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 2

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 2. Question : (TCO 3) What does quad core mean in relation of processors?

Student Answer: The main CPU is clocked at four times the static rate.

Four processors are installed in one or two sockets on the motherboard.

Four pipelines are used inside the processor for simultaneous instruction execution.

Four core system processes can be executed upon simultaneously.

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 2

Points Received: 0 of 4

Comments:

Question 3. Question : (TCO 3) An engineering professor teaches CAS at the university. Which expansion slot would be best for the graphics card in the professor's computer?

Student Answer: PCI

PCI-X

AGP

PCIe

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 2

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 4. Question : (TCO 3) Most motherboards use _____ for RAM.

Student Answer: DIMMs

RIMMs

VCMs

DIPs

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 6

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 5. Question : (TCO 3) Double-sided memory _____.

Student Answer: is two memory modules in the same physical module

is required to do dual-channeling

is most often used with Rambus

provides faster throughput

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 6

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 6. Question : (TCO 3) Dual channeling _____.

Student Answer: requires more cache memory

requires more RAM

requires dual CPUs

requires matched modules

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 6

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 7. Question : (TCO 3) Where are mini PCIe cards normally installed?

Student Answer: In tablet computers

In smartphones

On the bottom of a laptop

In a slot adjacent to the processor

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 2

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 8. Question : (TCO 2) Which of the following will most likely contain SO-DIMM memory?

Student Answer: Servers

Desktop workstations

Notebook computers

Printers

Instructor Explanation: Week 2 Lecture and LabSims

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 9. Question : (TCO 2) A physical problem with a memory chip will often cause a(n) _____ error.

Student Answer: out of memory

bad sector

POST

Task Manager

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Chapter 6

Points Received: 4 of 4

Comments:

Question 10. Question : (TCO 11) Bill and John are overloaded. They have to install more than 50 access points. Joni hears their frustration and offers to help. This is an example of _____.

Student Answer: tag teaming

consolidation

teamwork

outsourcing

Instructor Explanation: Schmidt, Soft Skills, Chapter 6

Points Received: 4 of 4

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