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JOSE ISBERT - TARAZONA DE LA MANCHA DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY 2003/2004
PCARCHITECTUREQUESTIONNAIRE
1. What is the basic unit of information?
2. What are the names of the microprocessors (CPUs) currently on sale?
Intel and AMD brands?
3. Explain the process that a CPU follows to perform an operation if the required information is not available.
Is it neither in the cache memory nor in the RAM?
4. What element do we need to connect to increase the number of devices connected through the
USB bus?
5. What is a CRT monitor?
6. What do the initials PC mean?
7. What did the emergence of transistors (understood as an electronic component) imply in the
evolution of computers?. In what era was their discovery made.
8. What ports are printers usually connected to nowadays?
9. What is referred to as a jumper or bridge on a motherboard?
10. What is meant by data word length?
11. What is the name of the chip responsible for controlling the data transfer through a serial port in
a PC?
12. What are the 'traces' called through which data is transferred on a motherboard?
13. How is the size of a monitor measured?
14. How is information organized on a Hard Disk?
15. What concept defines the study of the structure and functioning of a computer?
16. What other name is used for serial ports?
17. What other name is known for the parallel port?
18. What is the function of RAM memory?
19. What is the main function of a PC's hard drive?
20. What is the maximum transfer speed of a PCI Bus?
21. What are the fundamental elements to consider in a graphics card?
22. What are the three main areas of a CD, and what function do they have?
23. ¿Cuántos B, MB y GB son 315 KB?.
24. How many conductors does the power connector of hard drives and CD readers have?
the DVD?
25. How many distinct binary states can we represent with 6 variables?
26. How many types of cache memory does a personal computer have?
27. How many sectors is the level 1 cache divided into?
28. What does the Von Neumann model of computers consist of? Briefly explain each one.
In what date, who built it, and what characteristics did the first electronic computer have?
30. What is the difference between the serial port and the parallel port of a PC?
31. What unit is used to measure clock frequency?
32. Briefly explain what the resolution of a monitor is.
33. Name at least 8 different parts of a motherboard.
34. Why is it necessary to format hard drives and floppy disks before using them?
35. Why is the data transfer speed between an Intel Pentium IV microprocessor and a
Rambus PC 800 memory can reach up to 3.2 GB/s, if the Rambus PC800 only supports a
maximum speed of 1.6GB/s?
36. Why does the North Bridge of the Chipset usually have a black aluminum heatsink?
37. What is the bandwidth in bits of the AGP port?
38. What is the difference between CPU and central unit?
39. What is the difference between the chipset and memory and I/O hubs?
40. What is the difference between USB Bus version 1.1 and USB Bus version 2.?
41. What differences exist in terms of information storage between a hard drive and a CD?
42. What is the bandwidth of a BUS?
43. What is the system BUS?
44. What is the Firewire Bus?
45. What is the FBS?
46. What is OverDrive?
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What is the CPU?
48. What is the refresh rate or speed of a graphics card?
49. What is a chip?
50. What is an LCD-TFT monitor?
51. What is a pixel?
52. What is cache memory and what is its function?
53. What is a Chipset and what is its function?
54. What is the UAL or ALU and what is its responsibility?
55. What is the AGP port and what is it usually used for?
56. What function does the interface that connects hard drives to PCs serve?
57. What interface do most PCs currently use?
58. What word length do PC CPUs use currently?
59. What operations does the control unit of the CPU perform?
What does the term 'PC100' mean in a PC100 SDRAM memory module?
61. What does it mean that a card is Plug & Play?
62. What do the initials E/S mean?
63. What do the initials CD mean?
64. What advantages does USB Bus have over the serial port?
65. Who, on what date, and for what purpose were punched cards used for the first time as a method?
of information encoding?
66. Calculate the transfer speed in a 4X AGP.
67. Encode your name according to the ASCII code.
68. How is the cycle of a clock wave defined? What is the term for the number of cycles per second?
from an electric wave?
69. How many conductors do the cables used to connect a hard drive to a motherboard have?
through an EIDE controller with the Ultra DMA protocol.
70. From a performance standpoint, is it preferable to connect the monitor directly to the motherboard?
base or through a graphics card? Justify the answer.
71. Indica al menos tres ventajas de los monitores TFT frente a los CRT.
72. Indicate the two fundamental characteristics of a RAM memory.
73. The maximum data transfer speed between the L1 and L2 cache in a Pentium IV is
of 81.1 GB/s. How many 650 MB CD-ROMs could be burned in 3 seconds with the
indicated data transfer speed?
74. The speed of an audio CD player is 1X. If a song has a duration of 4
20 minutes and 20 seconds, and a recorder records at 20X, how long will it take to record the song?
How many MB does the song occupy on a 650 MB CD-ROM?
75. Reason why it is preferable to use a DVD-ROM instead of a CD-ROM for storing data.
Fill in a table of 4 variables that captures the different possible binary states.
77. If we have a 30 GB hard drive, how many Compact Discs of 650 MB would we need to
to have the same capacity?
78. If we observe that the hard drive is connected to the EIDE interface through a motherboard,
80 conductor flat cable, what communication protocols does the motherboard support?
79. If a computer does not have a network data transmission card, but that computer is
connected to a computer network, where is the data network cable connected? Who is
What is the role of the network card?
80. Let's assume we want to use a resolution on our color monitor of 1600 x 1200.
points in a 32-bit color mode (4295 million colors). How much memory of
What video will our graphics card need?
81. A telephone line transmits data at a rate of 128000 bits/s. How long will it take to send a file?
of 4.5 MB?
82. Indicate in which type of modules (SIMM, RIMM, etc.) the following types are sold
memory:
82.1. RDRAM
82.2. SDRAM PC100
82.3. DDRAM
82.4. SDRAM PC133
82.5. DRAM
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83. Indicate what the following acronyms mean:
83.1. CD-ROM
83.2. CD-RW
83.3. DVD-ROM
84. The data transfer speeds between the hard drive depend on the protocols used.
which must be supported by both the hard drive and the motherboard. Based on the
The protocols indicated below specify how long it would take for a hard drive to transfer the
data that fits on 8 3.5" floppy disks
84.1. Ultra DMA (ATA 33)
84.2. ATA 66
84.3. ATA 100
84.4. ATA 133
85. Calculate the maximum transfer speed of the following memory modules:
NOTE: The calculations must be fully developed (In the notes they are not accurate)
85.1. Rambus PC 600
85.2. Rambus PC 700
85.3. Rambus PC 800
85.4. SDRAM PC 66
85.5. SDRAM PC100
85.6. SDRAM PC133
85.7. DDR RAM PC200
85.8. DDR RAM PC266
86. Classify the following computer terms as Software or Hardware:
Mouse.
86.2. Keyboard.
86.3. Directory or folder
86.4. Centronics or printer port.
86.5. Serial port.
86.6. Cache memory
86.7. Graphics card.
86.8. Scanner.
86.9. Program.
86.10. RAM memory
86.11. Monitor.
86.12. Sound card.
86.13. Modem
CD-ROM reader
86.15. Refresh rate
86.16. Bit map.
86.17. Motherboard
86.18. BIOS
NOTE: THE ANSWERS TO EACH OF THE QUESTIONS WILL BE MADE
COPYING THE STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AND ITS SOLUTION, EVERYTHING
HELLO, WRITTEN BY HAND BY EACH STUDENT IN THEIR FOLDER OF
CLASS.