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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






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






4. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






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






6. Serial ports have this many pins.






7. What is a Brownout?






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






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






10. An example of firmware.






11. Surge






12. What does SODIMM stand for?






13. UXGA is _____x_____






14. Internal modem or telephone






15. What does SIMM stand for?






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






17. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






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






19. What does LCD stand for?






20. What does ECC do?






21. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






22. Level two cache is located on _______.






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

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24. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






26. RAID stands for _________.






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

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28. Level one cache is located on ___________.






29. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






30. What does RIMM stand for?






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






32. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






33. CPUS: What is CISC?






34. Serial mouse or external modem






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






36. XGA is ____x_____






37. level three cache is located on _________.






38. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






39. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






40. 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.






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






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






43. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






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






46. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






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






49. 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.






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