Download Practice VOCAT Questions – Adapter or Expansion Cards

Practice VOCAT Questions – Adapter or Expansion Cards
1. How are expansion components on a motherboard different from integrated
components?
A. Expansion components are soldered to the motherboard.
B. Expansion components are added to slots on the motherboard.
C. Expansion components are physically part of the motherboard.
D. Expansion components allow devices to be connected outside the system case.
2. One advantage of using adapter cards that are plug and play (PnP) is that they are
generally self-configuring. What is a DISADVANTAGE of PnP adapter cards?
A. The ROM chip on the adapter card must communicate with the ROM chip on the
motherboard.
B. Often, device drivers must be loaded from media provided by the manufacturer.
C. The adapter card requires manual configuration of IRQ and I/O addresses.
D. When the adapter card is installed incorrectly, it cannot be reinstalled.
3. An internal modem functions as a modulator and a demodulator, because it has its
own chip called:
A. an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip.
B. an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) chip.
C. a large-scale integration (LSI) chip.
D. a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) chip.
4. Which 9-pin male port on the back of a computer case connects devices by a serial
cable that transmits data 1 bit at a time?
A. Audio
B. COM
C. Parallel
D. Video
5. What adapter card attaches into a PCI slot, can control up to 127 devices, and can
transfer between 12 Mbps and 4.8 Gbps?
A. FireWire
B. SCSI
C. Sound
D. USB
6. Angela is having trouble connecting to her school network. After doing some
troubleshooting, she notices that there is a thin cable hanging loose behind her computer
with a connector on it that she remembers her teacher telling her is called an RJ-45. What
adapter card will she need to plug this cable into?
a. USB
b. PCI
c. NIC
d. AGP
Practice VOCAT Questions – Adapter or Expansion Cards
7. This expansion bus was designed to replace the older PCI and AGP standards.
a. eSATA
b. HDMI
c. ISA
d. PCIe
8. This expansion slot has largely been replaced by PCI Express; however, it was
designed to be used with video cards only.
a. AGP
b. ISA
c. PCI
d. PCIe
9. Kaleigh is searching for a device that will allow her to record and watch live television
signals. What PC hardware is she looking for?
a. Cable modem
b. Multimedia card
c. Satellite TV
d. TV tuner card
10. Charlie has a card in his computer that allows him to convert live analog video to a
digital format that he can then save to DVDs. What type of card is this?
a. Cable modem
b. Multimedia card
c. Satellite TV
d. Video capture card