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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What does RIMM stand for?






2. Ethernet network






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






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






5. What is a Sag?






6. Serial mouse or external modem






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






8. CPUS: What is CISC?






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






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






11. 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.






12. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






13. What are the two types of RAM?






14. What is a Blackout?






15. Internal modem or telephone






16. CPUs: What is RISC?






17. What is VRAM used for?






18. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






19. level three cache is located on _________.






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






21. ZIF stands for ______.






22. SVGA is ____ x_____






23. 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.






24. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






25. UXGA is _____x_____






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






27. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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






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






30. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






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






32. What is a Brownout?






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






34. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






35. Surge






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






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






38. What is Virtual RAM?






39. 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.






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






41. What does CRT stand for?






42. What does SODIMM stand for?






43. What does LCD stand for?






44. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






45. Spike






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






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






48. PGA stands for






49. An example of firmware.






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