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Comptia A +: Hardware

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does RIMM stand for?






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






3. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






4. What does ECC stand for?






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






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






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






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

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9. RAID stands for _________.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. What does LCD stand for?






16. Serial ports have this many pins.






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






18. What is a Brownout?






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






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






21. CPUS: What is CISC?






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






23. What is Virtual RAM?






24. What is VRAM used for?






25. What is a Sag?






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






27. Serial mouse or external modem






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






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






30. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






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






32. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






33. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






34. Printers






35. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






36. ZIF stands for ______.






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






38. What does SIMM stand for?






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






40. Level one cache is located on ___________.






41. An example of firmware.






42. What are the two types of RAM?






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






44. 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.






45. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






47. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






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






49. 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.






50. SDRAM sands for _______.