Viva practice

Exam-style questions generated from the component library — practice like it's the real viva.

Set up your round

Instant feedback after every question, with worked solutions.

Every question is multiple choice with 4 options. Components you've missed before show up more often, rounds rotate through the question bank so repeats stay rare, and "All categories" rounds mix in circuit-law calculations.

What the thermal & cooling quiz asks

Questions are generated from this site’s own reference pages for the 4 thermal & cooling parts below — heatsinks, fans, peltiers — keeping the smoke in. Because each one is built from a specific field of a specific part, a wrong answer always has somewhere to send you: the component page the question came from. Nothing here is a fixed question list, so no two runs are identical.

Question types in this category

Choosing4 parts
Failure modes4 parts
Function4 parts
Key specs4 parts
Markings4 parts
Package & pinout4 parts
Substitutes4 parts
Testing4 parts
Types & variants4 parts

Example questions

The real prompts, shown against the heatsink.

  • How do you choose the right Heatsink for a job?
  • What are the common ways a Heatsink fails?
  • What does a Heatsink do?
  • Which key specs matter when choosing a Heatsink?
  • How do you read the value or markings on a Heatsink?

Parts you’ll be asked about

Every one has a reference page with specs, testing procedure and failure modes.