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Essential Peripherals Flashcards

1
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Manifests as a 9-pin, D-shell male socket

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Serial Ports

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2
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Names of serial ports and connections

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DB-9 and RS-232

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3
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General purpose serial interconnect for keyboards, printers, joysticks, and many other devices. Enables hot-swapping of devices

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Universal Serial Bus (USB)

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Integrated circuit normally built into the chipset that acts as the interface between the system and every USB device that connects to it

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USB Host Controller

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5
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Part of the host controller that makes the physical connection to the USB ports

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USB Root Hub

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6
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1.5 Mbps max speed for this USB standard

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Low-Speed USB/USB 1.1

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7
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12 Mbps max speed for this USB standard

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Full-Speed USB/USB1.1

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8
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480 Mbps max speed for this USB standard; fully backwards compatible with USB1.1

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Hi-Speed USB/USB 2.0

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9
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5 Gbps max speed for this USB standard; fully backwards compatible with USB 2.0

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SuperSpeed USB/USB 3.0

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10
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10 Gbps max speed for this USB standard; fully backwards compatible with USB 2.0

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SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps/USB 3.1

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Adapter card that allows a motherboard to take advantage of faster speed USBs

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USB Expansion Cards

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12
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Connectors that plug upstream toward the host controller (plugged into the computer)

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USB A

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13
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Connectors plug downstream into USB devices

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USB B

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14
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Tends to reference USB Mini-B

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Mini-USB

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15
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Tends to reference USB Micro-B

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Micro-USB

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16
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Reversible USB-type cable that supports up to USB 3.1 with a top speed of 10 Gbps. Quickly becoming the de facto standard port on Android devices. Thunderbolt-enabled USB C ports can reach top speeds of 40 Gbps

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USB C

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17
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An open standards connector interface that is primarily used to connect peripherals to devices, including mobile devices, if they have a corresponding port

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Thunderbolt

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18
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A device that extends a single USB connection to 2+ ports, almost always directly from one of the USB ports connected to the root hub

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USB Hub

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19
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Interconnection standard to send wide-band signals over a serialized, physically thin connector system. Serial bus developed by Apple and Texas Instruments; enables connection of 63 devices at speeds up to 800 Mbps. Mostly supplanted by Thunderbolt

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FireWire (IEEE 1394)

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20
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FireWire standard that runs at 400 Mbps

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IEEE1394a

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21
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FireWire standard that runs at 800 Mbps

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IEEE1394b

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22
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Runs full duplex at 10 Gbps, so it compares to USB 3.1; connects computing devices with a Mini Display Port (mDP) connector

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Thunderbolt 1

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23
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Combines internal data channels, enabling throughput up to 20 Gbps; connects computing devices with a Mini Display Port (mDP) connector

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Thunderbolt 2

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24
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Offers throughput up to 40 Gbps at half the power consumption of Thunderbolt 2; uses a USB C connector

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Thunderbolt 3

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25
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A hardware device that most commonly enables multiple computers to be viewed and controlled by a single mouse, keyboard, and screen. Some reverse that capability, enabling a single computer to be controlled by multiple keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Switch

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26
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Enables users to paint, ink, pencil, or otherwise draw on a computer. Received input using a special surface

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Digitizer/Pen table

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27
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A process in which computers capture/record sound waves in electronic format. In simple terms, it means capturing the state or quality of a particular sound wave a set number of times each second. Measured in kilohertz (KHz)

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Loudness

29
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How high or low the tone

30
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Qualities that differentiate the same note played on different instruments

31
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Measurement of the number of characteristics of a particular sound captured during sampling

32
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Sound capture recorded at 44.1 KHz with 16-bit depth and in stereo

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CD Quality

33
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Sound format developed in the 1960s to carry telephone calls over the first digital lines

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Pulse Code Modulations (PCM)

34
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File format for audio faithfully recorded using the PCM format; produces very large file sizes

35
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Broadcast of data that is played on your computer and immediately discarded

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Streaming media

36
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Interface between a computer and a device for simulating musical instruments. Rather than sending large sound samples, a computer can simply send “instructions” to the instrument describing pitch, tone, and duration of a sound. Because this file is made up of a set of instructions rather than a copy of the sound, modifying each component of the file is easy. It is possible to program many channels/“voices” of music to be played simultaneously, creating symphonic sound

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)

37
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Powerful speaker capable of producing extremely low-frequency sounds

38
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Nomenclature for multiple speakers that follows a simple format in which x is the number of satellites with 1 subwoofer

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X.1 system

39
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Part of a connector into which a plug is inserted

40
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A special connector that enables you to connect a sound card directly to a 5.1 speaker system or receiver. Comes in both a coaxial version and optical version

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Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF or SPDIF)

41
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Software that compresses or decompresses media streams

42
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File containing 2+ separate, compressed tracks, typically an audio track and a moving-picture track

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Container file/wrapper

43
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Codec used for DVDs and broadcast TV

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MPEG-2 Part 2

44
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Codec used for everything from smartphone video and streaming video to Blu-Ray movies

45
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Codec that is half the size of h.264 at the same quality, used to support 4k video

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Google’s competitor to h.265, codec used in places like Android devices and YouTube

47
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A container file for Windows (not used much these days)

48
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The standard format for Apple QuickTime

49
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Probably the most common format these days, used for h.264 and h.265 video

50
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The oldest, most complex, and physically largest of all removable flash media cards

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CompactFlash (CF)

51
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Very popular format for flash media cards; also supports I/O devices. Also includes two smaller formats: mini and micro.

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Secure Digital (SD)

52
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4 MB - 4 GB

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SD Capacity

53
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4 GB - 32 GB

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Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC)

54
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32 GB - 2 TB

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Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC)

55
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First gen SD cards used this rating system to indicate the card’s minimum MB/s write speed. Class 10 card should write at a minimum 10 MB/s

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Speed Class

56
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Second gen SD cards used this rating system to indicate the card’s minimum MB/s write speed. A Class U1 card should write at a minimum of 10 MB/s

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UHS Speed Class

57
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Third gen standards; designed to support the newest video standards such as 4K and 8K. V6 class is the slowest class at 6 MB/s but goes up to V90 at 90 MB/s

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Video Speed Class

58
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Supports minimum if 10 MB/s sustained write and sustains 1500 IOPS while reading and 500 IOPS while writing

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Application Performance Class A1

59
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Supports minimum of 10 MB/s sustained write and sustains 4000 IOPS while reading and 2000 IOPS while writing

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Application Performance Class A2

60
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Special method for storing data on a CD. Divided the CD into fixed sections, each holding 2353 bytes

61
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Each increase is based on multiples of 1x 150 KBps

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CD-ROM Speeds

62
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74 minute, 650 MB and 80 minute, 700 MB

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CD-R Varieties

63
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Holds 4.37 GB, more than 2 hours of video

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DVD-5 (12cm, SS/SL)

64
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Holds 7.95, about 4 hours of video

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DVD-9 (12cm, SS/DL)

65
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Holds 8.74 GB, about four and a half hours of video

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DVD-10 (12cm, DS/SL)

66
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Holds 15.9 GB, more than 8 hours of video

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DVD-18 (12cm, DS/DL)

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