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