Subject: Quiz: Motherboard Mania
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:33:54 -0500

Quiz created: 070629

Motherboard Mania

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions,
guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end
of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not
reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and
change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice
at that point and the page will change color in delight.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are
one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers
(represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also
subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to
score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions.
(4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept
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1. What are two common names for a motherboard?

Matrix board and Input board
Chipset and
Mainframe
Mainboard and System board
Interface board and
Main circuit
No Answer
2. What is the job of the data bus?

To transport data to and from the chipset and
memory
To transport data to and from the chipset and CPU
To transport data
to and from the hard drive to the CPU
To transport data
from the AGP slot to and ISA slot
No Answer

3. Which component controls access to the ISA bus, USB ports, and
the IDE controllers?

Northbridge
Southbridge
Super
I/O
CPU
No Answer
4. What motherboard component both
controls and coordinates access to a system's RAM, the expansion slots, the hard
drive controllers, and other on-board devices?

CPU
PCI slots
Super I/O
Chipset
No Answer
5. Which component
controls access to the CPU, memory, PCI bus, and AGP bus?

Northbridge
Southbridge
Super
I/O
Network hub
No Answer
6. The local bus (also
called the front side bus), process bus, and system bus run bewteen which two
components?

Southbridge and Northbridge
Southbridge and
CPU
GPU and CPU
Northbridge and CPU
No Answer

7. The backside bus is used to describe bus transfer between which
two components?

CPU's core and its L2 cache
Northbridge and the
Southbridge
AGP slot and the Northbridge
Northbridge and
Memory
No Answer
8. The data bus transfers data between what
two components?

CPU and chipset
Chipset and System
RAM
CPU and ISA slots
Chipset and ISA
slots
No Answer
9. Which type of memory module features a
double-sided design in order to allow double circuit paths?

SIMM
TIMM
DIMM
VIMM
No Answer

10. Which chip keeps track of the computer's amount of memory,
types of drives, and video cards installed, as well as the data and time?

CPU
Northbridge
Southbridge
CMOS
No
Answer

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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling,
self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
a
simple text file of questions using D.K. Jordan's
dubiously original, but
publicly accessible
Think
Again Quiz Maker
of November 22, 2006.