Review #1

Which of the following acronyms refers to an integrated circuit that keeps track of the current time in a PC?

A software embedded into a hardware chip is commonly referred to as:

After completing the initial diagnostics and assigning system resources, the startup BIOS program checks for information about secondary storage devices that might contain the OS. The list of devices and the order in which they should be checked can be found and arranged in the CMOS setup utility, and this option is commonly referred to as:

Which of the following terms refers to a technology that allows for storing passwords, certificates, or encryption keys in a hardware chip?

Which of the following is an example of firmware?

In modern PCs, the procedure of replacing BIOS contents in order to upgrade to a newer version is sometimes referred to as:

While trying to enable the entire drive encryption feature in Windows technician receives the following error message: "A compatible Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Security Device must be present on this computer, but a TPM was not found". Knowing that the system has a TPM chip installed, which of the following steps might help in solving this problem?

After a normal system shutdown, when the computer is turned off, contents of the memory used to store BIOS settings are:

After replacing a modular hardware component inside computer case, the updated information about specific parameters of the new device is stored in:

In order to retain its configuration data, CMOS RAM requires constant supply of electricity which is provided by the: