Exam Review Questions & Study Guide

CS 332

Hardware / Software Concepts

1. What are the differences between ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM?

2. What is the major advantage of dynamic RAM over static RAM?

3. When purchasing a video card to install in a particular unit, what considerations must be taken into account?

4. What do the terms SIMM and DIMM stand for, and what kind of devices are they? How are they different?

5. Describe how data is stored on a magnetic disk. Draw a diagram.

6. What is formatting, as it applies to a disk?

7. What are the things you should document about your computer and why?

8. Compare SRAM, DRAM, EDO-RAM and SDRAM.

Understand the following terms and concepts:

ESD	Bus
Northbridge	BIOS
ISA	EISA
PCI	AGP
I-P-O	CPU
Parallel	Serial
Frontside Bus	PGA
SEC	IRQ
I/O Address	ATX
P1, P4, P8/P9 Connectors	DAT
Double-density disk	Format
Radial Misalignment	Track
Sector	Cylinder
Defragmentation	EIDE
IDE	Extended partition
FAT 16 & 32	Geometry
Logical drive	MBR
MFT	NTFS
Platter	Primary partition
ATA	ATAPI