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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What are the 4 main types of storage?






2. Internal modem or telephone






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






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






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

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6. An example of a device that uses a TRS connector.






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






8. What does ECC do?






9. What are the two types of RAM?






10. 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.






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






12. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






13. Ethernet network






14. What does CRT stand for?






15. Surge






16. Level two cache is located on _______.






17. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






18. What does LCD stand for?






19. Serial ports have this many pins.






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






21. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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






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






24. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






25. What does ECC stand for?






26. 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.






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






28. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






29. XGA is ____x_____






30. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






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






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






34. SVGA is ____ x_____






35. What is a Sag?






36. What does RIMM stand for?






37. UXGA is _____x_____






38. What does SIMM stand for?






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






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






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






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






43. RAID stands for _________.






44. LGA stands for ______.






45. What does SODIMM stand for?






46. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






47. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






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






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






50. An example of firmware.