Open-Ended Questions
1. Define ports including standard, specialized, and legacy ports. Give examples of each.
2. Describe power supply including power supply units and AC adapters.
3. Discuss microprocessors including the two basic components, words, clock speed, multicore chips, and specialty processors.
4. Define computer memory including RAM, cache, DIMM, virtual memory, ROM, and flash memory.
5. Define expansion slots and cards and discuss five commonly used expansion cards. What is Plug and Play? What are PCMCIA slots and ExpressCard slots?
6. Describe bus lines including bus width, system bus, expansion bus, and three types of buses.
7. Define ports including standard, specialized, and legacy ports. Give examples of each.
8. Describe power supply including power supply units and AC adapters.