Week 4

  • Differentiate among various styles of system units on desktop computers, notebook computers, and mobile devices
  • Identify chips, adapter cards, and other components of a motherboard
  • Describe the control unit and arithmetic logic unit components of a processor
  • Differentiate among the various types of memory
  • Describe the purpose and types of expansion slots and adapter cards, and differentiate among slots for various removable flash memory devices
  • explain the differences among a USB port, FireWire port, Bluetooth port, SCSI port, eSATA port, IrDA port, serial port, and MIDI port
  • Describe the types of buses in a computer
  • Explain the purpose of a power supply and describe how it keeps cool
  • Understand how to clean a system unit on a computer or mobile device