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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






2. Serial mouse or external modem






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






4. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






5. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






6. SDRAM sands for _______.






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






8. What is a Sag?






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






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






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






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






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


14. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






15. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?






16. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






17. What is a Blackout?






18. Spike






19. Serial ports have this many pins.






20. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






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






22. ZIF stands for ______.






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






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






25. CPUs: What is RISC?






26. 10Base-5 Ethernet and game ports use this cable






27. Video cameras (most common) Less commonly - similar devices that use USB connectors such as printers or external drives






28. SVGA is ____ x_____






29. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






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






31. 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.






32. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






33. Level two cache is located on _______.






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






35. Ethernet network






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. level three cache is located on _________.






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






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






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






46. An example of firmware.






47. What are the 4 main types of storage?






48. What is a Brownout?






49. Internal modem or telephone






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