- 1. What is the code name for the Thunderbolt 2 controller?
A) Falcon Ridge
B) Titan Ridge
C) Alpine Ridge
D) Sky Ridge
- 2. What is the data rate of Thunderbolt 2?
A) 40 Gbit/s
B) 10 Gbit/s
C) 20 Gbit/s
D) 5 Gbit/s
- 3. What is the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3?
A) 32.4 Gbit/s
B) 40 Gbit/s
C) 10 Gbit/s
D) 20 Gbit/s
- 4. Which connector type does Thunderbolt 3 share with USB?
A) USB-A
B) USB-C
C) Micro-USB
D) Mini-USB
- 5. Which version of DisplayPort support is mandatory in Thunderbolt 3?
A) DisplayPort 1.4
B) DisplayPort 1.2
C) DisplayPort 1.1
D) DisplayPort 1.0
- 6. How much power can a Thunderbolt 3 port provide using USB power delivery on copper cables?
A) Up to 200 watts
B) Up to 15 watts
C) Up to 50 watts
D) Up to 100 watts
- 7. What is the code name for the original Thunderbolt 3 controller?
A) Skylake
B) Alpine Ridge
C) Titan Ridge
D) Falcon Ridge
- 8. What is the maximum power delivery of Thunderbolt 3 on copper cables without USB power delivery?
A) 15 watts
B) 5 watts
C) 60 watts
D) 100 watts
- 9. Which year was Thunderbolt 2 announced?
A) 2015
B) 2013
C) 2012
D) 2014
- 10. Which year was Thunderbolt 3 released?
A) 2015
B) 2013
C) 2016
D) 2017
- 11. What happens to the power delivery capability on optical Thunderbolt 3 cables?
A) 100 watts
B) 15 watts
C) 50 watts
D) No power delivery
- 12. What is the main benefit of channel aggregation in Thunderbolt 2?
A) Reduces power consumption
B) Creates a single logical 20 Gbit/s channel
C) Adds USB compatibility
D) Increases physical bandwidth
- 13. Which Apple computer featured the first Thunderbolt 2 system release?
A) Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013)
B) Mac Mini (Late 2014)
C) MacBook Air (Early 2015)
D) Mac Pro (Late 2013)
- 14. What is the required length for special active cables for maximum Thunderbolt 3 performance?
A) Up to 5 meters
B) Over 0.5 meters
C) Exactly 2 meters
D) Under 0.5 meters
- 15. How many external 4K displays can an Alpine Ridge controller drive at 60 Hz?
A) Two
B) Four
C) Three
D) One
- 16. At which event did Intel first introduce Light Peak in 2009?
A) Microsoft Build
B) Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
C) Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
D) Intel Developer Forum (IDF)
- 17. What were the modified ends of the optical cables used in the 2009 demonstration?
A) USB
B) Ethernet
C) FireWire
D) DisplayPort
- 18. Who was the head of Intel's Optical I/O Program Office during the Light Peak introduction?
A) Brian Krzanich
B) Paul Otellini
C) Gordon Moore
D) Jason Ziller
- 19. In what city did Intel demonstrate a laptop with a Light Peak connector on May 4, 2010?
A) London
B) Brussels
C) San Francisco
D) Paris
- 20. When did Intel state they expected hardware manufacturing of Light Peak to begin?
A) Beginning of 2009
B) Around the end of 2010
C) Early 2012
D) Mid-2011
- 21. What type of cards drove the Light Peak system in the 2009 prototype?
A) PCI Express
B) ISA
C) AGP
D) PCI-X
- 22. What devices were shown connected via Light Peak in the 2009 YouTube video?
A) Smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles
B) HD cameras, laptops, docking stations, and HD monitors
C) Routers, switches, and modems
D) Printers, scanners, mice, and keyboards
- 23. Where were early commercial prototypes demonstrated in September 2010?
A) Computex 2010
B) Intel Developer Forum 2010
C) Apple Store flagship locations
D) Consumer Electronics Show 2010
- 24. What was the initial marketing name for Thunderbolt?
A) Silicon Link
B) Light Peak
C) High Speed Bus
D) Data Stream
- 25. When was Thunderbolt first sold as part of an end-user product?
A) March 10, 2012
B) January 15, 2010
C) December 5, 2011
D) February 24, 2011
- 26. With which standard is Thunderbolt interoperable?
A) SATA 3
B) FireWire 800
C) DP-1.1a
D) USB 2.0
- 27. Who registered Thunderbolt as a trademark before transferring it to Intel?
A) Corning
B) Silicon Photonics
C) Apple
D) Sumitomo
- 28. What was the original intended physical layer for the Thunderbolt interface?
A) Optical
B) Coaxial
C) Wireless
D) Copper
- 29. What material is used in the final version of the Thunderbolt cable to reduce costs?
A) Aluminum
B) Fiber-optic
C) Gold-plated alloy
D) Copper
- 30. What is the maximum length of the optical Thunderbolt cables sold by Corning Inc. in the US?
A) 100 m
B) 60 m
C) 10 m
D) 30 m
- 31. What is the maximum number of daisy-chained peripherals supported per Thunderbolt port?
A) Four
B) Eight
C) Ten
D) Six
- 32. What symbol appears next to the Thunderbolt port on compatible Macs?
A) A USB logo
B) A DP icon
C) A Thunderbolt symbol
D) A Lightning bolt with a circle
- 33. Which Sony product used optical Thunderbolt to connect to an external graphics card?
A) Vaio Z21
B) iMac
C) Mac Mini
D) MacBook Pro
- 34. Which legacy system shares a relationship with Thunderbolt regarding the use of a display connector for a low-speed bus?
A) ACCESS.bus
B) RS-232
C) SCSI
D) USB 1.0
- 35. In what year were the first desktop boards offering Thunderbolt interconnection available?
A) 2012
B) 2010
C) 2011
D) 2013
- 36. What is required for the target display mode of iMacs to accept a video-in signal?
A) A Thunderbolt cable
B) A DisplayPort adapter
C) A standard HDMI cable
D) A USB-C cable
- 37. When was the USB4 specification released?
A) July 2020
B) November 2020
C) August 29, 2018
D) August 29, 2019
- 38. Which processor series included Thunderbolt 4 support in late 2020?
A) Ice Lake
B) Arrow Lake
C) Tiger Lake
D) Alder Lake
- 39. What is the maximum resolution mentioned for DisplayPort 2.0?
A) 8K
B) 4K
C) 16K
D) 10K
- 40. Can PCIe USB4 devices be released without Thunderbolt certification?
A) No
B) Only if they use Thunderbolt branding
C) Only with Intel approval
D) Yes
- 41. When did Intel preview Thunderbolt 5?
A) January 5, 2024
B) March 15, 2023
C) October 12, 2024
D) September 12, 2023
- 42. How much charging power can Thunderbolt 5 support downstream?
A) 100 W
B) 140 W
C) 80 W
D) 240 W
- 43. What modulation scheme allows Thunderbolt 5 to work with existing passive cables up to 1 meter?
A) NRZ
B) PAM-3
C) QAM-16
D) PAM-4
- 44. How many Thunderbolt 5 ports does the Mac Mini (M4 Pro, 2024) have?
A) Three
B) Two
C) Four
D) Six
- 45. In what year were the first computers with Thunderbolt 5 expected to start coming out?
A) 2025
B) 2022
C) 2024
D) 2023
- 46. How many 8K displays at 60 Hz can Thunderbolt 5 support?
A) Triple
B) Dual
C) Single
D) Quad
- 47. How many Thunderbolt 5 ports does the Mac Studio (M4 Max) have?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Six
D) Four
- 48. Which protocol was Thunderbolt 3 used to form?
A) USB4
B) Thunderbolt 4
C) USB-C
D) USB 3.2
- 49. Who demonstrated that Thunderbolt 3 could work on an AMD system by modifying firmware?
A) ASRock technicians
B) USB-IF developers
C) Wendell Wilson
D) Intel engineers
- 50. Which motherboard is specifically mentioned as already having Thunderbolt 3 ports as of May 2019?
A) ASUS ProArt B550-Creator
B) ROG Strix B550-E
C) GIGABYTE B550 VISION D
D) ASRock X570 Creator
- 51. In what month and year did Intel certify the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3?
A) December 2019
B) May 2017
C) January 2020
D) March 2019
- 52. What is the name of the ASUS add-in card that supports Thunderbolt 3 on AMD?
A) Titan Ridge Pro
B) ASUS TB3 Bridge
C) Thunderboltex 3-TR
D) ProArt Link
- 53. What type of certification does Intel employ for all Thunderbolt products?
A) Regional
B) Self-certification
C) Mandatory
D) Optional
- 54. Which company introduced the first optical Thunderbolt cable in January 2013?
A) Sumitomo Electric Industries
B) Intel
C) Corning Inc.
D) DeLock
- 55. Which company released the first range of optical Thunderbolt cables in the Western marketplace?
A) Corning Inc.
B) Apple
C) DeLock
D) Sumitomo
- 56. What type of signal does the Corning optical cable transport?
A) Infrared signal
B) Radio frequency signal
C) Analog electrical signal
D) Bluetooth signal
- 57. What encoding does the 80 Gbit/s mode of USB4 (used in Thunderbolt 5) use?
A) Manchester
B) NRZ
C) PAM3
D) Biphase
- 58. How do Thunderbolt 4 copper cables handle lengths over 1.0 m?
A) They use thicker copper gauges.
B) They are limited to 20 Gbit/s.
C) They integrate active signal conditioning circuitry.
D) They must use optical converters.
- 59. Which model eventually increased the storage capacity to 32 TB?
A) Pegasus R4
B) Pegasus R10
C) Pegasus R8
D) Pegasus R6
- 60. What was the primary focus of most non-Promise storage manufacturers early on?
A) High capacity
B) Low power consumption
C) Speed
D) Portability
- 61. Which company uses the proprietary BeyondRAID data-handling system?
A) LaCie
B) Sonnet Technologies
C) StarTech
D) Drobo
- 62. Which product line from LaCie added USB 3.0 alongside the two Thunderbolt ports?
A) Pegasus
B) DS1
C) 2big
D) BeyondRAID
- 63. Which of these companies is NOT mentioned as a manufacturer of Thunderbolt docks?
A) Elgato
B) CalDigit
C) Promise Technology
D) Belkin
- 64. Which company was the first to include Thunderbolt 3 ports in laptops?
A) Dell
B) Gigabyte
C) MSI
D) Apple
- 65. What is the maximum charging power supported by a single Thunderbolt 3 port?
A) 120W
B) 50W
C) 100W
D) 75W
- 66. Which laptop series from Dell first included Thunderbolt 3?
A) XPS Series
B) Latitude
C) Inspiron
D) Precision
- 67. What is the storage capacity of the Promise Technology Pegasus 2 R8 RAID unit?
A) 24 TB
B) 48 TB
C) 12 TB
D) 32 TB
- 68. What is the maximum storage capacity of the LaCie 5big and 8big models?
A) 12 TB
B) 24 TB
C) 32 TB
D) 48 TB
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