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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






3. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






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






5. Ethernet network






6. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






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






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






9. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






11. What does ECC do?






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






13. What are the two types of RAM?






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






15. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






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






17. Serial mouse or external modem






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






19. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






20. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






21. What does LCD stand for?






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






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






24. What is a Brownout?






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






26. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






27. An example of firmware.






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






29. Serial ports have this many pins.






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. level three cache is located on _________.






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






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






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






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






36. What does SIMM stand for?






37. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






38. 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.






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






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

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41. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






42. RAID stands for _________.






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






44. UXGA is _____x_____






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






46. What is a Sag?






47. XGA is ____x_____






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






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






50. What does ECC stand for?