MaximumPC 2004 06

1) The blue-violet

lasers in Blu-Ray DVD

recorders operate at

what wavelength?

A 305nm

B 350nm

C 405nm

D 650nm

2) Which CPU does not

have an on-die memory

controller?

A Transmeta Crusoe

B AMD Athlon XP 3200+

C AMD Opteron

D AMD Athlon 64 3200+

3) What is the name of

the DirectX 9 program-

mable shader language?

A HLSL: high-level shading

language

B HLSL: high-load shading

language

C TLSL: top-level shading

language

D TLSL: top-load shading

language

4) What will Intel do

with the CSA port in its

next-generation chipsets?

A Move to DSA, or dynamic

streaming architecture, to

support full duplex Gigabit

Ethernet

B Add jumbo frames support and

a new PHY

C Move it directly into the die

of Dothan-class mobile proces-

sors for better power

management

D Dump it because there’s

enough bandwidth available in

the Grantsdale and Alderwood

chipsets to support GiG-E on

the down low

5) PC3200 is the

equivalent of:

A DDR200

B DDR266

C DDR333

D DDR400

7) IBM’s ATA command

queuing technology

from its 180GXP drive is

called:

A Mark and Retrieve

B Tag and Seek

C Localize Marker System

D Optimized Server Metrics

8) What does the

“Matrix” in Intel’s

new Alderwood and

Grantsdale chipset

refer to?

A A RAID mode that mixes

both RAID 0 and RAID 1

on the same two drives

B A more efficient way to

flush the Bussard data

queue scoops

C A marketing deal Intel has

signed with the Wachowski

brothers for the next

Matrix movie

D A faster way to synchronize

data between high-speed

PCI Express ports and the

memory controller

9) Which company

does not have a

license to make

Pentium 4 core

logic chipsets?

A nVidia

B ATI

C SIS

D VIA

10) What’s

a Gibibyte?

A 10242 bytes

B 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

C 1,000,000,000 bytes

D 1,073,741,824 bytes

11) ExpressCards for

laptops will be available

in what formfactors?

A Single-wide and double-wide

B Single-channel and

dual-channel

C Standard and “Max”

D Thinband and wideband

12) How much L2

cache does an Athlon

64 3000+ have?

A 128KB

B 256KB

C 512KB

D 1MB

13) How many pipeline

stages does a 3.4GHz

“E” Pentium 4 have?

A 31

B 20

C 24

D 12

 MAXIMUMPC JUNE 2004

STAGE 4: If you can answer 18 of these 20 questions

correctly, you don’t need us—we need you

6) What do you

suppose this is?

A Multicontact interconnect

B Ball-grid array

C Ball-bearing grid

D Fluid dynamic bearing

ANSWERS 1=C, 2=B, 3=A, 4=D, 5=D, 6=B, 7=B, 8=A, 9=A, 10=D, 11=A, 12=C, 13=A, 14=A, 15=A, 16=D, 17=B, 18=C, 19=D, 20=A