Appendix Answers to Review Questions

Chapter 1

  1. Answer: A

    UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS

  2. Answer: B

    NVRAM is memory that does not lose its content when power is lost to the machine.

  3. Answer: C

    Cylinders, heads, and sectors (CHS) is also called the drive geometry, because together these three numbers determine how much data the disk can hold.

  4. Answer: D

    Read only memory (ROM) is memory that cannot be written to and usually resides on a chip on the board.

  5. Answer: A

    This can be set by accessing the BIOS or UEFI settings.

  6. Answer: B

    When the proper CPU speed is known, you must make sure the relationship between the speed of the CPU and that of the motherboard ...

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