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Comptia A +: Hardware

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1. What does CRT stand for?






2. External modems most commonly connect to this port.






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






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

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5. Computer programs that perform specific tasks include: - Operating System- Program applications - Hardware drivers (special programs that tell the operating system how to use the hardware)






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






7. What are the 4 main types of storage?






8. How many pins is a MICRODIMM DIMM?






9. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD






10. Level two cache is located on _______.






11. level three cache is located on _________.






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






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






14. Number of Pins for Drives: 2. SCSI






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






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






17. What does SODIMM stand for?






18. SDRAM sands for _______.






19. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?






20. An example of a device that uses a TRS connector.






21. How many pins is a DDR2 DIMM?






22. How many pins is a SODIMM DDR DIMM?






23. What does ECC stand for?






24. What is a Brownout?






25. What does LCD stand for?






26. ZIF stands for ______.






27. Printers






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






29. Parallel devices connect to this connector.






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






31. UXGA is _____x_____






32. A temporary data storage location that can be read from and written to.






33. What is Virtual RAM?






34. RAID 5 has at least ___ hard drives.






35. What are the two types of RAM?






36. What is a Blackout?






37. Number of Pins for Drives: 1. PATA - ATA - IDE - or EIDE






38. CPUS: What is CISC?






39. Ethernet network






40. CPUs: What is RISC?






41. Serial ports have this many pins.






42. Number of Pins for Drives: 3. SATA






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






44. RAID stands for _________.






45. What does ECC do?






46. Networking is a specialized form of input and output that entails using media (cable) and devices (routers - switches) to link multiple computers into an interconnected unit.






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






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






49. LGA stands for ______.






50. QXGA is ____x____