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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






2. What is VRAM used for?






3. Level one cache is located on ___________.






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






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






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

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7. What does ECC do?






8. SVGA is ____ x_____






9. What is a Sag?






10. UXGA is _____x_____






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






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






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






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






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






16. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






17. What are the two types of RAM?






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






19. What is Virtual RAM?






20. Serial ports have this many pins.






21. Printers






22. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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






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






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






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






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






28. PGA stands for






29. What does SIMM stand for?






30. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






31. CPUS: What is CISC?






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






33. SDRAM sands for _______.






34. level three cache is located on _________.






35. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






36. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






37. What does ECC stand for?






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






39. What does CRT stand for?






40. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






41. What is a Blackout?






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






43. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






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






46. RAID stands for _________.






47. QXGA is ____x____






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






49. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






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