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Comptia A +: Hardware

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






2. What does LCD stand for?






3. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?






4. CPUS: What is CISC?






5. Serial ports have this many pins.






6. An example of firmware.






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






8. RAID stands for _________.






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






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






11. LGA stands for ______.






12. 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.






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






14. UXGA is _____x_____






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






16. Level one cache is located on ___________.






17. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR2 DIMM?






18. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.






19. Serial mouse or external modem






20. What are the 4 main types of storage?






21. Spike






22. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






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






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






25. What does ECC do?






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






27. 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.






28. What does SODIMM stand for?






29. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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

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31. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






32. What is a Sag?






33. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






34. Ethernet network






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






36. Printers






37. Internal modem or telephone






38. What is Virtual RAM?






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






40. What does SIMM stand for?






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






42. What does ECC stand for?






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






44. XGA is ____x_____






45. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






46. What does RIMM stand for?






47. Surge






48. QXGA is ____x____






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






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