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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printer - Scanner - Camera - Printer - Mouse - Keyboard - External CD-ROM drive - MP3 player - PDA






2. What does ECC do?






3. CPUs: What is RISC?






4. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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






6. What does ECC stand for?






7. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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






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






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






11. Serial ports have this many pins.






12. Computer programs that perform specific tasks include: - Operating System- Program applications - Hardware drivers (special programs that tell the operating system how to use the hardware)






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






14. 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.






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






16. Level two cache is located on _______.






17. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






18. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






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






21. What does RIMM stand for?






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






23. What does SIMM stand for?






24. 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.






25. An example of firmware.






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

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






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






29. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






30. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






32. Surge






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






34. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






35. What is Virtual RAM?






36. What is a Brownout?






37. Level one cache is located on ___________.






38. LGA stands for ______.






39. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






40. What is VRAM used for?






41. XGA is ____x_____






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






43. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






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






46. ZIF stands for ______.






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






48. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






49. What does CRT stand for?






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