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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An example of a device that uses a TRS connector.






2. What does SIMM stand for?






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






4. What is a Brownout?






5. 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.






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






7. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






8. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






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






10. Level one cache is located on ___________.






11. Multiple core allow the PC to simultaneously process multiple ______.

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12. SDRAM sands for _______.






13. Ethernet network






14. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






15. level three cache is located on _________.






16. What are the two types of RAM?






17. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






18. SVGA is ____ x_____






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






20. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






28. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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






30. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






31. Serial mouse or external modem






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






33. What is Virtual RAM?






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






35. Spike






36. What does LCD stand for?






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






38. 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)






39. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






41. 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.






42. What is a Sag?






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






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






45. What is a Blackout?






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

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47. LGA stands for ______.






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






49. Surge






50. What does CRT stand for?