IT Essentials (ITE v5.0 & v5.02) Chapter 1 Exam Answers 100% 2019

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

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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