Install & Troubleshoot Chapter 1-3 Exam (Different types of ports)
A FireWire port (also called an IEEE 1394 port, pronounced "I-triple-E 1394 port") is used for high-speed multimedia devices such as digital camcorders.
What are these ports called?
A PS/2 port, also called a mini-DIN port, is a round 6-pin port used by a keyboard or mouse. The ports look alike but are not interchangeable. On a desktop, the purple port is for the keyboard, and the green port is for the mouse. Many newer computers use USB ports for the keyboard and mouse rather than the older PS/2 ports.
What are these ports called?
A USB (Universal Serial Bus) port is a multipurpose I/O port that comes in several sizes and is used by many different devices, including printers, mice, keyboards, scanners, external hard drives, and flash drives. Some USB ports are faster than others. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 is faster than regular USB, and Super-Speed USB 3.0 is faster than USB 2.0
What are these ports called?
A system usually has three or more round audio ports, also called sound ports, for a microphone, audio in, audio out, and stereo audio out. These types of audio ports can transmit analog or digital data. If you have one audio cable to connect to a speaker or earbuds, plug it into the lime green sound port in the middle of the three ports. The microphone uses the pink port.
What are these ports called?
An external SATA (eSATA) port is used by an external hard drive or other device using the eSATA interface. eSATA is faster than FireWire.
What are these ports called?
IO shield
What is the plate in the back of a PC case that has acts as a protector and access for the mother board?
A DVI (Digital Video Interface) port transmits digital or analog video. Three types of DVI ports exist, which you learn about in the chapter,
What is this port called?
A DisplayPort transmits digital video and audio (not analog transmissions) and is slowly replacing VGA and DVI ports on personal computers.
What is this port called?
A Thunderbolt port transmits video, data, and power on the same port and cable and is popular with Apple computers. The port is shaped the same as the DisplayPort and is compatible with DisplayPort devices. Up to six peripherals (for example, monitors and external hard drives daisy-chained together) can use the same Thunderbolt port.
What is this port called?
A modem port, also called an RJ-11 port, is used to connect dialup phone lines to computers. A modem port looks like a network port, but is not as wide. In the photo, the right port is a modem port and the left port is a network port, shown for comparison.
What is this port called?
A network port, also called an Ethernet port, or an RJ-45 port, is used by a network cable to connect to the wired network. Fast Ethernet ports run at 100 Mbps (megabits per second), and Gigabit Ethernet runs at 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps (gigabits per second). A megabit is one million bits and a gigabit is one billion bits. A bit is a binary value of 1 or 0.
What is this port called?
A parallel port, also called an LPT port, is a 25-pin female port used by older printers. This older port has been replaced by USB ports.
What is this port called?
An HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) port transmits digital video and audio (not analog transmissions) and is often used to connect to home theater equipment.
What is this port called?
An S-Video port is a 4-pin or 7-pin round video port sometimes used to connect to a television. The 7-pin port is shown on the left. The 4-pin port is missing the extra pins in the middle and is the more common type.
What is this port called?
An S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) sound port connects to an external home theater audio system, providing digital audio output and the best signal quality. S/PDIF ports always carry digital audio and can work with electrical or optical cable. When connected to a fiber-optic cable, the port is called an optical connector.
What is this port called?
An older serial port, sometimes called a DB9 port, is a 9-pin male port used on older computers. It has been mostly replaced by USB ports. Occasionally, you see a serial port on a router where the port is used to connect the router to a device a technician can use to monitor and manage the router
What is this port called?
VGA (Video Graphics Array port, also called DE15 port
What is this port called?
