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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






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






3. 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.






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






5. level three cache is located on _________.






6. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






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






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






9. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






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






11. Serial mouse or external modem






12. Level one cache is located on ___________.






13. What is a Sag?






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






15. What does ECC stand for?






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






17. What does SIMM stand for?






18. A working PC is a combination of many different parts - also called a Field-Replaceable Unit (FRU) - can be replaced when faulty or upgraded to provide additional functionality.






19. What does CRT stand for?






20. UXGA is _____x_____






21. What does SODIMM stand for?






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






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






24. Serial ports have this many pins.






25. Level two cache is located on _______.






26. What is Virtual RAM?






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






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






29. ZIF stands for ______.






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






31. Surge






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






33. LGA stands for ______.






34. The physical components that work together to make a computer system or network: - Keyboard - mouse - monitor - printer - Connectors and cables - Drives - Circuit boards






35. Ethernet network






36. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






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






39. CPUS: What is CISC?






40. SDRAM sands for _______.






41. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






42. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






44. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






45. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






46. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






47. An example of firmware.






48. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






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






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