Exam 9: Installing and Supporting Io Devices

FireWire and i.Link are common names for another peripheral bus officially named ____.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has a maximum speed of 115.2 Kbps (kilobits per second)

If you have an available eSATA external port,you can use a protective hard drive ____ that will house and protect a hard drive outside the computer case.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has a maximum speed of 3.0 Gbps

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Designed for peer-to-peer data transmission

USB is much easier to configure and faster than regular serial or parallel ports and uses higher-quality cabling.

A serial port is provided by the motherboard or might be provided by an adapter card called a(n)____ card.

Chips sometimes loosen because of temperature changes; this condition is called ____.

Every I/O device is controlled by ____________________.

____________________ ports are fast becoming the most popular ports for slower I/O devices such as printers,mice,keyboards,scanners,and a variety of other devices.

Newer computers do not allow you to boot without a keyboard.

Problems with a device can sometimes be solved by updating the ____ or firmware.

For laptops,you can adjust the brightness of the display using ____ keys.

____ systems and peripherals have the U.S.Green Star,indicating that they satisfy certain energy-conserving standards of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has a maximum speed of 12 Mbps or 1.5 Mbps

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has a maximum speed of 1.5 Mbps

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has a maximum speed of 5.0 Gbps (gigabits per second)

____ CRT monitors draw a screen by making two passes.

BIOS manages ____ lines that are used by a device to hail the CPU asking for data to be processed.

A(n)____ monitor (also called a progressive monitor)draws the entire screen in one pass.