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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. Printers






2. Spike






3. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






4. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






5. QXGA is ____x____






6. What does SODIMM stand for?






7. LGA stands for ______.






8. What does ECC stand for?






9. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






10. Ethernet network






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






12. Serial ports have this many pins.






13. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. RAID stands for _________.






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






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






21. Internal modem or telephone






22. ZIF stands for ______.






23. SDRAM sands for _______.






24. What does SIMM stand for?






25. What does RIMM stand for?






26. What are the two types of RAM?






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






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






29. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






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






31. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






32. What does CRT stand for?






33. PGA stands for






34. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






35. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






36. What are the 4 main types of storage?






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






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






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






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






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






43. Level one cache is located on ___________.






44. What does ECC do?






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






46. What is VRAM used for?






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






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






49. CPUS: What is CISC?






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