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Introduction
Nuwan's hardware audit, what a specification sheet tells you, and what you will be able to justify by the end.
Nuwan's Hardware Audit
Reading a Specification Sheet
| A typical desktop specification (example) | ||
|---|---|---|
What You Will Be Able to Do
- Name the parts inside the system unit and on the motherboard.
- Explain the CPU's components, the buses and the fetch–decode–execute cycle.
- Explain what makes a processor faster.
- Compare types of memory and storage, including RAID and backup.
- Describe input devices, output devices and ports.
- Choose and justify a configuration for a server, an office desktop and a point-of-sale machine.
Practice
On a specification sheet, which line tells you how much working memory the computer has?
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