Cisco IT Essentials v5.0 Chapter – 1exam. Introduction to personal computer

Cisco IT Essentials v5.0 Chapter – 1exam.
Introduction to personal computer.
Correct answers are in shaded one.

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

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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