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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What are the 4 main types of storage?






2. PGA stands for






3. XGA is ____x_____






4. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






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






6. What does LCD stand for?






7. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






8. What is Virtual RAM?






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






10. What does ECC do?






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






12. What does CRT stand for?






13. Surge






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






15. Printers






16. Ethernet network






17. What does ECC stand for?






18. What is a Blackout?






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






20. Level one cache is located on ___________.






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






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






23. What is a Brownout?






24. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






26. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






27. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






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






29. What does SIMM stand for?






30. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






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






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






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






34. Spike






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






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






37. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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

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39. SVGA is ____ x_____






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






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






42. An example of firmware.






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






44. Serial mouse or external modem






45. 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)






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






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






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






50. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI