Computer Quiz

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Computer Quiz

QPI and HyperTransport have all but replaced this in current hardware, but what used to be the single most important factor in overall system speed? *

1 point

CPU

Memory

Front Side Bus (FSB)

Video Card

Hard Drive

Let's start with an easy one. What does CPU stand for? *

1 point

Computer Processing Unit

Central Peripheral Unit

Central Processing Unit

Computer Processing User

Who invented the x86 standard? *

1 point

IBM

AMD

VIA

Cyrix

Intel

What does BIOS stand for? *

1 point

Basic Input Output System

Byte Integration Operations System

Basic Interconnect Operating System

What is the transfer rate of a standard USB 2.0 Device? *

1 point

100 Mbit/s

480 Mbit/s

1 Gbit/s

250 Mbit/s

What is the most crucial component to any computer system? *

1 point

Power Supply

RAM

Hard Drive

CPU

Motherboard

Who invented the Graphical User Interface (GUI)? *

1 point

Microsoft

Apple

Bell Labs

Xerox

While we're on the subject of USB, who invented it? *

1 point

Microsoft

Apple

AMD

Samsung

Intel

More importantly, when did the first x86 CPU come out? *

1 point

1982

1978

1990

1974

You install a new 250 GB hard drive in your computer and format it. Upon checking the available space on the hard drive in My Computer, you are puzzled to find that there is substantially less space available than 250GB. Why? *

1 point

Whoever you ordered it from lied to you.

Formatting tables and free space.

The hard drive is defective.

You incorrectly formatted the hard drive with an older formatting standard.

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