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Have a slight D shape; technically known as D-subminiature connectors (referred to as D-shell connectors on the exams)

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Serial and Parallel Ports (DB Ports)

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Can come in 9-pin and 25-pin varieties

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Serial Port

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Transfer data one bit at a time; maximum transmission speed of 115 kilobits per second (standard setting is 9600 bps)

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Serial Port

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Serial ports are defined as ___

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Male

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Parallel ports are defined as ___

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Female

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The 25-pin female port

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Parallel (Printer) Port

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Transfers data eights bits (one byte) at a time

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Parallel Port

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Technological advances that offer improved throughput of about ten times faster than a standard parallel port

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Extended Capability Port and the Enhanced Parallel Port

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By default, the serial port gets assigned the I/O address

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3F8 and Interrupt Request (IRQ) 4 [COM1]

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Traditionally, parallel ports get an I/O address

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378 and Interrupt Request (IRQ) 7 [LPT1]

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Purple 6-pin mini DIN port (exam refers to it as a Din-6 connector)

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Keyboard (PS/2) port

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Green 6-pin mini DIN port (exam refers to it as a Din-6 connector)

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Mouse (PS/2) port

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Most monitors and projectors connect to one of three video ports

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Video Graphics Array (analog)
Digital Visual Interface (either/or)
DisplayPort (digital)

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Blue, female, 15-pin D-subminiature connector (arranged in 3 rows of 5 pins each)

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VGA Port

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Digital Video Interface connectors are classified as

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DVI-D
DVI-A
DVI-A/D or DVI-I (interchangeable)

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DVI-D and DVI-I also support a configuration called Dual-Link DVI, which use a ___ connector

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24-pin

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A direct-drive display technology, which means that monitors do not need special scaling circuitry when being driven by the interface; features a compact 20-pin connector

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DisplayPort

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The 3.5 mm mini audio connector on a PC that is color-coded green

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Speaker output port

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The 3.5 mm mini audio connector on a PC that is color-coded pink

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Microphone input port

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The 3.5 mm mini audio connector on a PC that is color-coded blue

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Auxiliary input port

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Uses an RCA connector on a coaxial cable (or some sound cards from Creative Labs use a 3.5-mm mini-audio jack)

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The electrical port for Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)

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Uses a fiber connector (usually square-shaped) to transmit audio data

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The optical port for Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)

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A purely digital port that can handle both the enhanced video signal and multichannel digital audio streams

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High Definition Multimedia Interface

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An integrated female DB-15 port (pins arrayed in two rows)

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MIDI/joystick port

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Look identical to female telephone jacks and use standard two-wire RJ-11 telephone cables
Modem Port
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Uses an eight-wire RJ-45 cable, with fiber connectors of ST, SC, LC, FDDI, MT-RJ, and FC
Network Interface Port
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The original specification for 1394a calls for data transfers of up to ___
400 Mbps
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The current generation of FireWire (1394b) is capable of speeds up to _
800 Mbps
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Data transfer technology that is a very good match for video, external hard drives, backup storage devices and other hardware that needs real-time data access
FireWire (IEEE 1394a or b)
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How many devices can be daisy-chained on a single FireWire connection
63
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The 6-pin standard ___ port is slightly taller than USB ports and is rounded on one end
FireWire 400
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___ devices use a square 9-pin connector
FireWire 800 (1394b)
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The 68-pin female Ultra-320 port is the most common example today of this data transfer technology
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
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The power connector for the AC plug on the back of a power supply
IEC 320 connector
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Primary power for older ATX motherboards
P1 (20-wire)
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Primary power for current ATX motherboards
P1 (24-wire)
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Secondary power for current ATX motherboards
P4 and 8-pin CPU power connector | 4/8-pin 12v connector
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Used in the initial boot sequence, the 5-volt orange wire on the P1 connector
Power Good
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Power connector that provides connection to Floppy Drives at either 5V or 12V
Mini connector
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This power connector supplies electricity to hard drives and optical drives (some PCIe video cards and PCIe motherboards)
Molex connector

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