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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. Serial ports have this many pins.






2. What are the two types of RAM?






3. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






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






5. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. What does ECC do?






13. Spike






14. What is a Blackout?






15. 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.






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






17. An example of firmware.






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






19. UXGA is _____x_____






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






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






22. Level one cache is located on ___________.






23. SDRAM sands for _______.






24. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






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






26. PGA stands for






27. QXGA is ____x____






28. What is Virtual RAM?






29. 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.






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






31. What does LCD stand for?






32. What does ECC stand for?






33. Surge






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






35. LGA stands for ______.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






41. level three cache is located on _________.






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






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






44. What are the 4 main types of storage?






45. Printers






46. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






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






48. 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)






49. What does SIMM stand for?






50. CPUs: What is RISC?