Networking Study Guide

MGMT 4310 Exam 1 Study Guide – If you have these down, you will be in really good shape for the exam.

Terms

Chapter 1 (and related content)

* Adapter card

* Binary number system

* BIOS

* ROM BIOS

* CMOS

* Bit

* Byte

* Bus

* CPU/processor/microprocessor

* DIMM

* Expansion cards

* Expansion slots

* Firmware

* Floppy disk drive

* Hertz

* Megahertz

* Gigahertz

* Graphics card

* Hard copy vs soft copy

* Hard drive (types of)

* Hardware

* Software/program

* Memory/RAM/primary storage/volatile memory (NOT a disk drive)

* ROM (non-volatile memory) vs RAM

* Parallel port

* Peripheral device

* Port

* Power supply

* Printer

* Protocol

* SATA

* SSD

* System clock

* USB

* Video card/VGA/SVGA/XGA/DVI

* Video memory

Chapter 5

* AGP

* Active partition

* Boot loader

* Booting

* CMOS battery

* Cold/hard boot

* Warm/soft boot

* Jumper

* On-board ports

* Partition table

* PCI

* PCI Express (PCIe)

* POST

* Sector

* Track

Chapter 6

* Blue screen errors

* C States vs P States

* Front-side bus vs back-side bus

* L1, L2, and L3 cache

* Memory cache vs disk cache

* DRAM vs SRAM

* Heat sync

* Liquid cooling system

* Multi-core processing

* Hyper-threading

* Overclocking

* Processor frequency/speed

* Quad core, Triple core, Dual core, etc

* Instruction set

* i3, i5, i7

* Intel, AMD

Chapter 7

* DDR3

* Dual channel vs. triple channel

* Memory bank

* Single-sided vs double-sided

* SDRAM

Other terms we’ve discussed (these come from chapter 8 although you were not assigned to read it)

* Autodetection (Plug N Play)

* Boot sector

* Fault tolerance

* Formatting (with and without system)

* Head

* Sector

* Track

* High-level formatting vs low-level formatting

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