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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What does CRT stand for?






2. A working PC is a combination of many different parts - also called a Field-Replaceable Unit (FRU) - can be replaced when faulty or upgraded to provide additional functionality.






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






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






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. What does SODIMM stand for?






7. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






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






9. What does RIMM stand for?






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






11. What are the two types of RAM?






12. Level two cache is located on _______.






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






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






15. QXGA is ____x____






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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

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23. What does SIMM stand for?






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






25. CPUs: What is RISC?






26. Spike






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






28. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






29. ZIF stands for ______.






30. What is a Brownout?






31. 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.






32. What is a Sag?






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






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






35. PGA stands for






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






37. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






38. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






39. Printers






40. What is a Blackout?






41. The process of the computer presenting - displaying - or otherwise giving data. These devices include: - Video - Audio - Printing






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






43. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






45. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






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






47. SVGA is ____ x_____






48. RAID stands for _________.






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

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







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