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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






2. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






3. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






4. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






5. An example of firmware.






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






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






8. What do the type types of Hard Drive acronyms stand for?






9. 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.






10. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






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






13. Serial ports have this many pins.






14. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






15. Video cameras (most common) Less commonly - similar devices that use USB connectors such as printers or external drives






16. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






17. What is Virtual RAM?






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






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






20. Surge






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






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






23. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






24. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






25. CPUs: What is RISC?






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






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






28. SCSI code is set by a 4 things - what are they?






29. Parity is used in some _____________ - hard drives - and RAM.






30. What does ECC stand for?






31. Level two cache is located on _______.






32. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






33. What are the 4 main types of storage?






34. SVGA is ____ x_____






35. Printer - Scanner - Camera - Printer - Mouse - Keyboard - External CD-ROM drive - MP3 player - PDA






36. What does LCD stand for?






37. Spike






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






39. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






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






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






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






43. The actual speed of the CPU is governed by a _______ setting called the clock rate.






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






45. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






47. What does CRT stand for?






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






49. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






50. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?