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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






3. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






5. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






6. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






7. What does ECC stand for?






8. What does LCD stand for?






9. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






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






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






12. Spike






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






14. SVGA is ____ x_____






15. Surge






16. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






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






19. ZIF stands for ______.






20. Level one cache is located on ___________.






21. What are the 4 main types of storage?






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






23. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






24. Printers






25. PGA stands for






26. SDRAM sands for _______.






27. level three cache is located on _________.






28. Serial mouse or external modem






29. CPUS: What is CISC?






30. 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.






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






32. RAID stands for _________.






33. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






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






35. What does CRT stand for?






36. XGA is ____x_____






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






38. 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.






39. Level two cache is located on _______.






40. UXGA is _____x_____






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






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






43. What is a Brownout?






44. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






45. An example of firmware.






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?