The paper for the Hardware event, Mechanix held as part of XINO 2014 at DPS, Rohini on 23 August 2014.

1. TEAM CODE
XINO 2o14
Mechanix PRELIMS
Participant 1
Participant 2
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Rules
 The paper has maximum marks of 50.
 The paper consists of 3 sections.
 Section 1 contains 10 questions for 1 mark each
 Section 2 contains 8 questions for 2 mark each
 Section 3 contains 8 questions for 3 mark each
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Section 1:
1. Expand CMYK.
2. What is so special about the AMD “Seattle” Opteron A1100?
3. Which particular material in the game Minecraft can be used to emulate transistors, among
various things, allowing players to virtualize everything from basic circuits to extensive
devices such as scientific and graphing calculators in the game?

2. 4.
What?
5. Connect Blue, Black, Super Black, Red, Brown, Clear, Lock and Buckling spring.
6. What is the maximum file size limit for a file in an FAT32 drive?
7. Which type of printer produces output on sheets that fades with time?
8. Arrange the following Video output ports according to the bandwidth they provide: VGA,
DisplayPort, HDMI,DVI
9. Gen 1:Infrared
Gen 2:Red
Gen 3:Blue-Violet
What?
10. 1 KiB = ______ bytes?
Section 2:
11. What is throw distance?

3. 12. What is Optical Image Stabilization?
13. What is ambidexterity in mice?
14. In the context of audio devices, what is burn in?
15. How is the way information is transmitted different for Analogue and Digital signals?
16. Which company’s GPU, Intel, AMD or nVidia would you prefer for mining bitcoins. Why?
17. What do nVidia G-Sync and AMD Freesync do?
18. What are circumaural and supra-aural types of? What is the difference between them?

4. Section 3:
19. What is n-key rollover? What is ghosting of keys?
20. How would you overclock a CPU (in the past) and a GPU (now) with a graphite pencil?
21. What is a bottleneck? Which bottleneck does AMD Mantle work to resolve? Which
architecture is required for it?
22. What is a HSF? How is it connected to the processor?

5. 23. Differentiate between FPGA and ASIC.
24. Differentiate between JBOD and RAID.
25. Differentiate between BIOS and UEFI.
26. Give the truth table for AND and OR gates.