Test your basic knowledge |

Comptia A +: Hardware

Subjects : certifications, comptia-a-+, it-skills

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What are the 5 Expansion Slot types - Daughter Boards or Riser Boards?
verifying data integrity.
40 or 80
PCIe - PCI - AGP - ESIA - and ISA
DB-25

2. What do the type types of Hard Drive acronyms stand for?
Standardization
discharge the capacitors by touching and connecting the phase with the ground plug and then the neutral to the ground plug with an insulated screwdriver or pliers.
DSD and SSD (DSD - Dynamic State Drives SSD - Solid State Drives)
Space on the HD that the RAM uses as an overflow area and as a backup copy of the contents in case of power failure.

3. What is a Sag?
240
BIOS
Very brief time (milliseconds) of too little voltage
its used as 'Endlessly' rewritable and used primarily as surveillance camera footage.

4. An example of a device that uses a high-density (three-row) DB-15 connector.
Input
VGA/SVGA monitor
CMOS
its used as 'Endlessly' rewritable and used primarily as surveillance camera footage.

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)
USB Type A
Software
its used as 'Endlessly' rewritable and used primarily as surveillance camera footage.
Volatile

6. DSD or Dynamic State Drives are organized into Tracks or Rings - and sectors or _____.
Cathode Ray Tube
Radial Lines
charged coupled device (CCD)
DB-15

7. An example of a device that uses a low-density (two-row) male DB-15 connector.
Firmware
Joystick
Processing
B-9 serial

8. What is a Blackout?
3
its used as 'Endlessly' rewritable and used primarily as surveillance camera footage.
Power failure
DB-25 parallel

9. ZIF stands for ______.
Zero Insertion Force. a physical interface that lets you set the CPU into the array - and then use actuate a lever to make actual contact.
video ram for the use of the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Not related to Virtual RAM.
Dynamic and Static - Dynamic - loses info in the absence of power. Static - retains info like a hard drive.
144

10. 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.
9-pin serial
Componentization
144
240

11. What does LCD stand for?
Liquid Crystal Display
Serial
Coaxial
DB-15

12. SDRAM sands for _______.
Line Grid Array
Synchronous Dynamic RAM. Data transfer is timed to the system clock. DDR replaced 168 SDRAM
BIOS
Error Correction Code.

13. 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.
a mini DIN Tip Sleeve Ring (TSR) 3.5 millimeter jack
Power failure
Processing
DB-15

14. An example of a device that uses a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector.
BIOS
PS/2-style mouse
Joystick
Power failure

15. The physical components that work together to make a computer system or network: - Keyboard - mouse - monitor - printer - Connectors and cables - Drives - Circuit boards
Firewire 6-pin
1024 x 786
Hardware
9

16. What does SIMM stand for?
Pin Grid Array
Software
Single Inline Memory Module - has 30 or 72 contacts on only one side.
DB-25 parallel

17. A serial mouse connects to a computer with this connector.
9-pin serial
Cathode Ray Tube
240
Serial

18. How many pins is a DDR DIMM?
removable chips on the motherboard
800 x 600
144
184

19. Multicore CPUs share a common ____ _____ _____. Which can cause traffic bottlenecks as competing cores communicate on the main system bus.
BIOS
Front Side Bus.
PS/2-style mouse
144

20. What is a Brownout?
Serial
Software
1. jumper 2. dip switch 3. push button switch 4. and configured with a separae SCSI BIOS
Too little voltage

21. RAID 1+0 and 0+1 require ____ disks which are two disks that are striped and then mirrored or vise vera.
4
Line Grid Array
detects and fixes corrupt data in RAM.
Software

22. Level two cache is located on _______.
Joystick
Complex -Instruction - Set - Chips - Used in General Purpose PCs
the motherboard
Componentization

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

24. The process of sending data to the computer. These devices include: - Mouse - Keyboard - Touchscreen
Input
Zero Insertion Force. a physical interface that lets you set the CPU into the array - and then use actuate a lever to make actual contact.
Front Side Bus.
200

25. Hard Drives mount at 3.5 or 2.5 - Optical Drives mount at _____.
Synchronous Dynamic RAM. Data transfer is timed to the system clock. DDR replaced 168 SDRAM
40 or 80
Coaxial
5.25

26. SCSI code is set by a 4 things - what are they?
1. jumper 2. dip switch 3. push button switch 4. and configured with a separae SCSI BIOS
Power failure
7 or 15 (powered)
184

27. Printers
BIOS
DB-25 parallel
9
they plug into the motherboard to allow further expansion. 1. Magnetic Disk 2. Tape 3. Laser 4. Solid State Flash

28. 10Base-2 Ethernet uses this cable.
Radial Lines
800 x 600
Coaxial
200

29. This device converts a visual input into a binary stream through an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC)
Error Correction Code.
ATX - BTX - Micro ATX - ITX - NLX - and LPX
charged coupled device (CCD)
CMOS

30. Surge
Very brief time (milliseconds) of too little voltage
Small Outline DIMM
Too much voltage
144

31. Before sending a power supply to the recycling facility...
CMOS
discharge the capacitors by touching and connecting the phase with the ground plug and then the neutral to the ground plug with an insulated screwdriver or pliers.
2048 x 1536
PS/2-style mouse

32. 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.
the motherboard
verifying data integrity.
9-pin serial
DB-15

33. Ethernet network
Componentization
RJ-45
Single Inline Memory Module - has 30 or 72 contacts on only one side.
discharge the capacitors by touching and connecting the phase with the ground plug and then the neutral to the ground plug with an insulated screwdriver or pliers.

34. What are the 6 form factors of motherboards?
ATX - BTX - Micro ATX - ITX - NLX - and LPX
DB-25 parallel
7 or 15 (powered)
184

35. LGA stands for ______.
Zero Insertion Force. a physical interface that lets you set the CPU into the array - and then use actuate a lever to make actual contact.
Line Grid Array
removable chips on the motherboard
34

36. What does ECC stand for?
50 - 68 - or 80
Error Correction Code.
5.25
discharge the capacitors by touching and connecting the phase with the ground plug and then the neutral to the ground plug with an insulated screwdriver or pliers.

37. Both Parity and _______ decrease efficiency - but increase reliability in RAM.
ECC
USB Type A
Componentization
Too much voltage

38. What are the two types of RAM?
PCIe - PCI - AGP - ESIA - and ISA
Complex -Instruction - Set - Chips - Used in General Purpose PCs
Dynamic and Static - Dynamic - loses info in the absence of power. Static - retains info like a hard drive.
Componentization

39. What is VRAM used for?
Componentization
video ram for the use of the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Not related to Virtual RAM.
240
Firmware

40. How many pins is a DDR3 DIMM?
Processing
1600 x 1200
7 or 15 (powered)
240

41. QXGA is ____x____
Dynamic and Static - Dynamic - loses info in the absence of power. Static - retains info like a hard drive.
2048 x 1536
Error Correction Code.
Firewire 6-pin

42. Parallel devices connect to this connector.
Standardization
ATX - BTX - Micro ATX - ITX - NLX - and LPX
Power failure
DB-25

43. The event of a program being loaded - retrieved - transmitted - or executed. Major components include: - CPU (Central Processing Unit) - RAM
Processing
Very brief time (milliseconds) of too little voltage
Pin Grid Array
Redundant Array of Independant (Inexpensive) Disks.

44. Number of Pins for Drives: 1. PATA - ATA - IDE - or EIDE
TRS
PS/2-style mouse
verifying data integrity.
40 or 80

45. PGA stands for
PS/2-style mouse
they plug into the motherboard to allow further expansion. 1. Magnetic Disk 2. Tape 3. Laser 4. Solid State Flash
Pin Grid Array
Software

46. What does ECC do?
144
Random Access Memory (RAM)
detects and fixes corrupt data in RAM.
Single Inline Memory Module - has 30 or 72 contacts on only one side.

47. An example of firmware.
RJ-45
tasks or 'Threads'
Reduced Instruction - Set - Chips - Used in data collection - sensors - routers - and graphics processors.
BIOS

48. 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.
Standardization
Serial
Front Side Bus.
Cache

49. Number of Pins for Drives: 4. FDD
DB-15
BIOS
34
CMOS

50. Serial ports have this many pins.
video ram for the use of the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Not related to Virtual RAM.
Very Brief time (milliseconds) of too much voltage
9
Storage