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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






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






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






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






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. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






7. What are the 4 main types of storage?






8. Spike






9. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






10. CPUS: What is CISC?






11. PGA stands for






12. What does CRT stand for?






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






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






15. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






16. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






17. What is a Brownout?






18. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






19. XGA is ____x_____






20. What does ECC stand for?






21. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






22. What are the two types of RAM?






23. An example of firmware.






24. An example of a device that uses a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector.






25. level three cache is located on _________.






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. What is VRAM used for?






32. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






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






35. RAID stands for _________.






36. CPUs: What is RISC?






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






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






39. UXGA is _____x_____






40. What does ECC do?






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






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






43. Level one cache is located on ___________.






44. Surge






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






46. SDRAM sands for _______.






47. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






48. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






49. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






50. 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.






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