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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printer - Scanner - Camera - Printer - Mouse - Keyboard - External CD-ROM drive - MP3 player - PDA






2. An example of a device that uses a high-density (three-row) DB-15 connector.






3. What is the formal name of the 'headphone jack'?






4. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






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






6. Software that has been permanently placed in a hardware component. An example is a BIOS chip.






7. level three cache is located on _________.






8. Ethernet network






9. An area of memory that holds recently-accessed data.






10. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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






12. What does LCD stand for?






13. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






14. An example of firmware.






15. Number of Pins for Drives: 1. PATA - ATA - IDE - or EIDE






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






17. RAID stands for _________.






18. ZIF stands for ______.






19. The physical components that work together to make a computer system or network: - Keyboard - mouse - monitor - printer - Connectors and cables - Drives - Circuit boards






20. Surge






21. Printers






22. What is DVD-RAM? and how is it used?

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23. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






24. A working PC is a combination of many different parts - also called a Field-Replaceable Unit (FRU) - can be replaced when faulty or upgraded to provide additional functionality.






25. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






27. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






28. What are the two types of RAM?






29. 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.






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






31. Serial ports have this many pins.






32. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






34. Computer programs that perform specific tasks include: - Operating System- Program applications - Hardware drivers (special programs that tell the operating system how to use the hardware)






35. 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.






36. An example of a device that uses a low-density (two-row) male DB-15 connector.






37. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






38. The process of sending data to the computer. These devices include: - Mouse - Keyboard - Touchscreen






39. Components from many different manufacturers are interchangeable. As long as the component meets the standards - you can be reasonably confident that it will work in the system.






40. Hard Drives mount at 3.5 or 2.5 - Optical Drives mount at _____.






41. The act of keeping or maintaining data. These devices include: - Hard disk drive - Floppy disk drive - Optical drives (CD-ROM - DVD) - Flash drive






42. What does RIMM stand for?






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






44. LGA stands for ______.






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






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






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






48. UXGA is _____x_____






49. Level one cache is located on ___________.






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