Hardware Topics
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- Name 5 Types of Servers
  ---> FAX, DATA, WEB, PRINTER, EMAIL(POP3), EMAIL(SMTP) 

 
- Name 5 Server parts that are usually not found in laptops
  ---> Hot swappable hard drives
       Hot swappable power supplies
       Multiple Ethernet boards
       Multiple video boards
       Multiple CPUs
       Multiple fans
       Large amounts of RAM (32 terabytes) 
        and up to 384 processor cores with 8-threads per core.
        http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/sparc-m6/index.html
 
  
- Name 3 differences between primary and secondary memory
  ---> Primary is faster
       Primary is smaller in capacity
       Primary contents is lost when computer is turned off 
 
  
- Name two types of cables required in secondary memory
  ---> Power and Data cables 
 
  
- How does a CPU connects to its peripherals
  ---> Thru the motherboard


- Name the 3 most popular current speeds of magnetic hard drives found in 
  personal computers
  ---> 5,400rpm, 7,200rpm and 10,000rpm

  
- Name the most popular current connectors for magnetic hard drives found in 
  personal computers
  ---> IDE/PATA and SATA     

  
- On regular Servers (below Mainframes) 
  Name the most common connection type for secondary storage
  Name the most common speed for secondary storage
  ---> SCSI 
       15,000 rpm

        
- What are heat sinks used for
  ---> In electronic systems, a heat sink is a passive heat exchanger that cools
       a device by dissipating heat into the surrounding medium. In computers, heat
       sinks are used to cool central processing units or graphics processors. 


- Name two types of fans use inside computers
  ---> Fans that will extract air.
       Fans that will intake  air.


- Name the current most common adapter/card/board connector found in today's workstations
  ---> PCI

  
- How can you use PATA drives in a motherboard that only comes with SATA connectors
  ---> Yes, by adding a PATA adapter to the motherboard

  
- Bits transfered, at the time, in serial ports
  ---> 1

  
- Bits transfered, at the time, in parallel ports
  ---> 8


- How many pins have a VGA connector
  ---> 15 pins. 
       A Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector is a three-row 15-pin connector


- How many pins have a RS232 connector
  ---> DB9 has 9 pins
       DB25 has 25 pins

  
- Name 4 parts that magnetic hard drives have, as discussed in class
  ---> Spindle, arms, heads, platters