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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






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






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

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4. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






5. What is a Blackout?






6. What does CRT stand for?






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






8. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






10. Serial ports have this many pins.






11. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






12. An example of firmware.






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






14. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






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






17. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






19. LGA stands for ______.






20. Level two cache is located on _______.






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






22. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






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






25. ZIF stands for ______.






26. What are the two types of RAM?






27. Serial mouse or external modem






28. RAID stands for _________.






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






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






31. 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.






32. Both Parity and _______ decrease efficiency - but increase reliability in RAM.






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






34. What are the 4 main types of storage?






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






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






37. What is Virtual RAM?






38. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






39. Ethernet network






40. CPUS: What is CISC?






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






42. What does SIMM stand for?






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






44. XGA is ____x_____






45. Spike






46. What does ECC stand for?






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






48. What does RIMM stand for?






49. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






50. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD