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Question | Answer |
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What does ESD Stand for? | Electrostatic discharge |
What are the two types of damage that ESD can cause? | Catastrophic failure and upset failure |
A Catastrophic failure from ESD does what to a system? | It destroys the components beyond use |
A Upset failure from ESD does what to a system? | It damages the component so that it doesn't perform well |
How can you protect yourself from ESD? | Always ground yourself before touching electronic components. |
What are some static control devices? | Grounding straps or antistatic straps Grounding mats Static shielding bags |
What does CMOS stand for? | Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor |
What are the benefits of a circuit board using the CMOS system? | CMOS chips require less electricity and produce less heat. |
What was an earlier technology for circuit board microchips? | TTL or Transistor-transistor logic |
What are other names for the Motherboard? | The main board or the system board |
What do the chipset's do? | They control the flow of data and instructions to and from the processor, providing careful timing of activities. |
The processor uses temporary storage or memory called? | Primary storage |
The processor uses permanent storage or memory called? | Secondary storage |
Primary storage is provided by devices called memory or? | Ram or Random Access memory |
RAM boards or memory modules come in three different types, what are they? | DIMM or Dual inline memory module RIMM and older outdated type SIMM or Single inline memory module |