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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What does ECC stand for?






2. Serial mouse or external modem






3. What does SIMM stand for?






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






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






6. PGA stands for






7. Spike






8. What does SODIMM stand for?






9. What are the 4 main types of storage?






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






11. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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

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13. Networking is a specialized form of input and output that entails using media (cable) and devices (routers - switches) to link multiple computers into an interconnected unit.






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






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






16. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






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






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






20. Internal modem or telephone






21. ZIF stands for ______.






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






23. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






24. RAID stands for _________.






25. An example of firmware.






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






27. What are the two types of RAM?






28. What does RIMM stand for?






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






30. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






31. Level two cache is located on _______.






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






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






34. Printers






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






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






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






38. What is VRAM used for?






39. What does ECC do?






40. What is a Blackout?






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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)






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






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






48. CPUs: What is RISC?






49. UXGA is _____x_____






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