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CompTIA Study Guide 220 - 1001 > Chapter 2 Internal Expansion, Storage Devices, and Power Supplies > Flashcards

Chapter 2 Internal Expansion, Storage Devices, and Power Supplies Flashcards

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What are the four most common catagory of expansion cards?

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Video

Multimedia

Communications

Input/Output

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What is important to remember when installing an expansion card, no matter what type the card is?

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That it matches the bus on the motherboard it is going to be installed in. E.G. PCI Network cards must go in PCI slot.

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Video adapter card (or graphics cards) can come in two types, what are they?

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Onboard cards, which are built in to the motherbaird, and add on cards that will typically go into the PCIe slot.

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What the advantages and disadvantages of having an onboard video card?

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Having a video card built into the motherboard frees up an expansion slot. If the video card fails it means getting another motherboard or buying an add on card.

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What is a TV Tuner / Video caprure card used for?

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These allow you to connect a broadcast signal , such a cable TV, to your computer.

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What is a difference between a network card and modem card?

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Modem cards have have smaller 4-pin RJ-11 connectors where as network cards have larger 8-pin RJ-45 connectors.

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Name some examples of input/output cards

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USB cards

Storage Cards, such as eSATA

Thunderbolt cards

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What is the most common way to configure a newly installed expansion card?

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The plug and play utility

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If the card isn’t recognised or isn’t functionaing as expected where might be best to look?

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The BIOS for configuration settings

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What are the three critical components of a HDD?

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HDD platters are divided into what sections?

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Tracks and Sectors

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What are the spin rates for HDD platters?

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5400 rpm

7200 rpm

10000 rpm

12000 rpm

15000 rpm

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What are some of the advatnages of SSD’s over HHD’s

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Faster srat-up and read times

Less power consumption and heat production

Silent operation

Less susceptible to damage from shock and heat damage

Higher data density per square centimenter.

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What are the three types of SSD drives you can get?

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M.2 SATA

M.2 PCIe

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)

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What is a draw back to using M.2 SATA SSD vs M.2 PCIe SSD?

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M.2 SATA SSD is restricted to 600 Mbps.

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What are the three types of optical storage devices available?

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CD-ROM

DVD-ROM

BD-ROM

17
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what is the storage capacity of CD-ROM?

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650 MB

700 MB

800 MB

900 MB

18
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What is the storage capacity of DVD - ROM

A

8.5 GB or 17.1 GB depending on if it’s dual-layer or not)

19
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What is the storage capacity of BD-ROM?

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20
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What are the transfer rates for CD-ROM?

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1X is 150 KBps going up to 8X

21
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What is the transfer rate for DVD-ROM?

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standard rate 1X is 1.4 MBps

22
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What is the transfer rate of BD-ROM?

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standard 1X is 4.5 MBps

23
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What does RAID stand for?

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Redundant Array of Indepedent Disks.

24
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What is RAID 0

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Disk Striping. Increasing data access. No faut tolerance. Minimuim two drives.

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What is RAID 1

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Disk mirroring. Writing data to two drives simultaneously. Does not help with speed but if one drives fails the data is written to the other. Has fault tolerance.

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What is RAID 5?

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Striping with parity. Combination of the benefits of RAID 0 & 1 to create a redundant striped volume set. Minimum of 3 drives.

27
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What is RAID 10?

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Mirroring with striping. Also known as RAID 1+0 adds fault tolerance.

28
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What are some of examples of flash drives?

A

MMD - MultiMediaCard

SD - Secure Digital

USB Flash Drives

29
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What kind of power connectors would a legacy AT motherboard require?

A

AT system connectors

30
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Also know as a Molex connector, what connector was used for hard drives, optical drives and other internal peripherals?

A

Standard Peripheral Power Connector

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CompTIA Study Guide 220 - 1001 (10 decks)

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