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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An area of memory that holds recently-accessed data.






2. RAID stands for _________.






3. BIOS allows you to do 4 things - what are they?






4. What does LCD stand for?






5. An example of a device that uses a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector.






6. SVGA is ____ x_____






7. Serial mouse or external modem






8. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






9. Before sending a power supply to the recycling facility...






10. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






11. CPUS: What is CISC?






12. What does ECC stand for?






13. Multicore CPUs share a common ____ _____ _____. Which can cause traffic bottlenecks as competing cores communicate on the main system bus.






14. An example of firmware.






15. A temporary data storage location that can be read from and written to.






16. A type of memory that loses data when the power is no longer supplied to the component.






17. The process of the computer presenting - displaying - or otherwise giving data. These devices include: - Video - Audio - Printing






18. Joystick or MIDI device (game port) - High Density DB-15 - VGA/SVGA monitor - 6-pin Mini-DIN - PS/2-style keyboard or mouse - By convention - purple connectors are used for the keyboard - and green connectors are used for the mouse.






19. What are the 4 main types of storage?






20. This device converts a visual input into a binary stream through an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC)






21. Parity is a method of ____________. It is used when the reliability of the data is more important than the speed at which it is written or read. When the data is read or received - the bytes should still be even. If not - the data is corrupt.






22. A dime sized component of the camera head into which light enters and is converted into and electronic or video signal






23. A special RAM chip powered and maintained by a small battery that holds basic configuration data a computer needs to start.






24. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






25. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






26. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






27. What does RIMM stand for?






28. Speaker or microphone - Common color codes for connectors are: Red = Mic In - Blue = Line In - Green = Line Out






29. Both Parity and _______ decrease efficiency - but increase reliability in RAM.






30. Serial ports have this many pins.






31. Level two cache is located on _______.






32. An example of a device that uses a TRS connector.






33. What are the two types of RAM?






34. What does SODIMM stand for?






35. What are the 5 Expansion Slot types - Daughter Boards or Riser Boards?






36. Level one cache is located on ___________.






37. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






38. A serial mouse connects to a computer with this connector.






39. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






40. RAID 1+0 and 0+1 require ____ disks which are two disks that are striped and then mirrored or vise vera.






41. The BIOS is stored on the _______ chip that is on the motherboard.






42. DSD or Dynamic State Drives are organized into Tracks or Rings - and sectors or _____.






43. What is VRAM used for?






44. XGA is ____x_____






45. The event of a program being loaded - retrieved - transmitted - or executed. Major components include: - CPU (Central Processing Unit) - RAM






46. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






47. PGA stands for






48. What does SIMM stand for?






49. QXGA is ____x____






50. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable