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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






2. What does SIMM stand for?






3. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






4. Printers






5. Ethernet network






6. 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.






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






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






9. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






11. What is a Brownout?






12. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






14. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






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






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






17. Surge






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






19. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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

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






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






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






24. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






25. 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.






26. UXGA is _____x_____






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






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






29. What is a Sag?






30. SVGA is ____ x_____






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






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






33. QXGA is ____x____






34. What is VRAM used for?






35. LGA stands for ______.






36. RAID stands for _________.






37. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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






39. What does ECC do?






40. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






41. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






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






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






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






45. Internal modem or telephone






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






47. ZIF stands for ______.






48. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






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






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