What is ESD?

What damage can ESD do?

What might one do to mitigate ESD?

What are the 2 types of screws used in desktop computers?

Where would you use an M3 screw?

What would use a 632 screw?

What term are components such as motherboards known by to describe their shape and dimension?

Besides ATX, what are some other popular form factors?

What “flash in the pan” form factor for motherboards has I/O ports on opposite side compared to the more popular ATX

What server form factor uses riser card at the very edge of the motherboard?

What is the difference between ATX and micro-ATX?

Could you install an ATX motherboard into a system that held a micro-ATX board?

Could you install a micro-ATX motherboard into a system that held an ATX board?

What is the form factor typically used in small home-theatre cases?

What are some synonyms for the term motherboard?

What are the two common (or typical) sizes of hard drives?

What are some common rotational speeds of a hard drive?

What interfaces are typically used in hard disk drives and optical drives?

What is a sector?

What is a cluster?

What is a track?

What is a head crash?

What damage can be done by a head crash?

How is a serial ATA cable different from a parallel ATA cable?

What two filters are found in mechanical hard drives?

In hard drives what does the voice coil motor move?

What is S.M.A.R.T.?

How would you describe RAID 0?

How would you describe RAID 1?

How would you describe RAID 3 and 4?

How would you describe RAID 5?

How is parity calculated?

What RAID level is least likely to be utilized?

What level of RAID does not provide fault tolerance?

What level of RAID does not use striping of any kind?

What level of RAID can withstand a failure of 2 drives and still recover?

What does fault tolerance mean?

What is a software RAID?

What is a hardware RAID?

What is the minimum amount of drives needed to implement RAID 5?

What is the minimum amount of drives needed to implement RAID 0?

What is the minimum amount of drives needed to implement RAID 6?

What is a hot spare in a RAID array?

What has replaced PC cards in laptops?

What does it mean to hot-plug or hot-swap a component?

What is an example of a hot swappable component?

How many pins are in DDR1?

How many pins are in DDR2?

How many pins are in DDR3?

What is the most popular battery type in today's laptops?

What is Speed Step?

Why is it impossible to upgrade the video card in most laptops?

What is considered the most expensive part of a laptop to replace?

What makes a Netbook different from a Notebook?