comptia a+ certification prep 1: hardware

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Lesson 1 Chapter 2 - How Computers Work
What are the 3 stages that comput...,
Describe what is input processing...,
What are 4 examples of an output ...
7  cards
Lesson 1 Chapter 3 - Dealing with customers
What are 4 examples of questions ...,
How should we make sure were aski...,
What are 2 assertive communicatio...
6  cards
Lesson 1 Chapter 4 - Troubleshooting
What are the 3 basic troubleshoot...,
What are frus and what does it st...,
What are 7 good troubleshooting i...
16  cards
Lesson 2 Chapter 1 - Desktop PC Basics
What is a desktop thick client,
What are the 3 thick client basics,
What are 7 important components f...
15  cards
Lesson 2 Chapter 2 - Ports and Jacks
How do peripherals connect to the...,
What is a system unit,
What is a plug
52  cards
Lesson 2 Chapter 3 - Devices and Their Connectors
What are 2 ways that the devices ...,
What are display adapter cards wh...,
What are expansion slots
38  cards
Lesson 2 Chapter 4 - Inside the System Unit
What are the 3 interchangeable te...,
Describe what a system unit case is,
Typically what s found on the fro...
50  cards
Lesson 3 Chapter 1 - Types of Laptops
What are 4 general characteristic...,
What are 6 characteristics of the...,
Since desktop replacements these ...
11  cards
Lesson 3 Chapter 2 - Laptop Hardware
What format does a laptop keyboar...,
What does the function fn key do ...,
What are the 3 most common pointi...
65  cards
Lesson 3 Chapter 3 - Managing and Maintaining Laptops
What are some maintenance duties ...,
What are some maintenance duties ...,
What are 3 types of laptop batter...
33  cards
Lesson 3 Chapter 4 - Troubleshooting Laptops
What are 3 things to do if a lapt...,
What are 2 steps to troubleshoot ...,
Why does a battery swell
34  cards
Lesson 3 Chapter 5 - Working Inside Laptops
What are the 4 procedure points t...,
What are 3 good ways to organize ...,
Can a laptop repair kit you buy o...
20  cards
Lesson 4 Chapter 1 - Cleaning and Maintenance Procedures
What are 5 safe liquid cleaning c...,
What s an important warning when ...,
What s an important warning when ...
22  cards
Lesson 4 Chapter 2 - ESD Precautions and Procedures
Humans usually don t feel anythin...,
What are the 3 types of esd,
What is catastrophic esd damage h...
18  cards
Lesson 4 Chapter 3 - Safety and Environmental Issues
What type of clothing should you ...,
What does osha stand for,
What type of clothing should you ...
22  cards
Lesson 4 Chapter 4 - Disposal Procedures and Environmental Protection
What are some computer components...,
How do you dispose of batteries r...,
What does crt stand for pew pew
10  cards
Lesson 5 Chapter 1 - CPU Technology
What does alu stand for when it c...,
What does the alu do,
What does cu stand for
54  cards
Lesson 5 Chapter 2 - Installing and Troubleshooting CPUs
What are 3 steps to successfully ...,
T or f motherboards support both ...,
What are the initial 3 steps when...
31  cards
Lesson 5 Chapter 3 - RAM Overview
What are packages,
In 2000 desktop computers evolved...,
What is a dimm race mario kart
36  cards
Lesson 5 Chapter 4 - Installing and Troubleshooting RAM
Since ram is extremely sensitive ...,
What the 5 steps to installing ra...,
What do the sockets for ddr3 5 lo...
17  cards
Lesson 6 Chapter 1 - Motherboard Basics
Modern motherboards are layered p...,
The motherboard contains the wire...,
What are traces
21  cards
Lesson 6 Chapter 2 - Upgrading and Installing Motherboards
When determining what motherboard...,
All motherboards come with a tech...,
What are standoffs
17  cards
Lesson 6 Chapter 3 - Expansion Buses and Cards
What is an expansion bus,
Modern motherboards offer two typ...,
What does pci stand for released ...
40  cards
Lesson 6 Chapter 4 - BIOS/UEFI
What is the boot process steps,
What components make up the boot ...,
What does the system rom store
42  cards
Lesson 6 Chapter 5 - Troubleshooting Motherboards
What are the 3 symptoms of mother...,
What is burn in failure,
How do you troubleshoot a possibl...
14  cards
Lesson 7 Chapter 1 - Understanding Electricity
Electricity is a flow of negative...,
What is the pressure of the elect...,
Describe what current amperage is
16  cards
Lesson 7 Chapter 2 - Powering the PC
Plugs and receptacles vary but in...,
What is the 3 prong connector tha...,
In the us standard ac comes in be...
69  cards
Lesson 7 Chapter 3 - Installing and Maintaining Power Supplies
A typical psu connects to the pc ...,
It s important to unplug the comp...,
What is shorting the pins
11  cards
Lesson 7 Chapter 4 - Troubleshooting Power Supplies
Power supplies fail in 2 ways,
Whats a techs first step when the...,
The tech has confirmed that the s...
13  cards
Chapter 8 Lesson 1 - Supporting Common Ports
You can add extra usb ports to a ...,
What s the difference between usb...,
When would a bus powered hub caus...
17  cards
Chapter 8 Lesson 2 - Common Peripherals
____ and windows share the same s...,
What are modifier keys,
What modifier keys are shared by ...
13  cards
Chapter 8 Lesson 3 - Multimedia Peripherals
What is a camera,
What are 2 ways to disable a webc...,
How does a microphone record soun...
13  cards
Lesson 9 Chapter 1 - Hard Drive Technologies
How would you fix a mechanical hdd,
What hdd form factor is used for ...,
What are the 4 differentiating fa...
35  cards
Lesson 9 Chapter 2 - Solid State Drive Technologies
What are 3 of the several form fa...,
Why didn t using a sata interface...,
What does an msata look like and ...
13  cards
Lesson 9 Chapter 3 - Installing HDDs and SSDs
What are the 3 simple steps to in...,
What are drive bays areas where,
What psu power connector does pat...
15  cards
Lesson 9 Chapter 4 - Troubleshooting Storage Devices
What are 3 factors that make hdds...,
What are 5 types of error message...,
If you get a controller failure w...
15  cards
Lesson 10 Chapter 1 - Partitioning
What does partitioning do establi...,
What does formatting do creates the,
Some storage devices come pre for...
45  cards
Lesson 10 Chapter 2 - Formatting
What is a file system is like a b...,
What are the 3 of the several dif...,
What file system does linux use
45  cards
Lesson 10 Chapter 3 - Storage and Maintenance Migration
For what type of drive is the dis...,
For wrhat,
How do you flag the corrupted clu...
22  cards
Lesson 11 Chapter 1 - Removable Media and RAID
What is removable media,
What are the 3 groups of removabl...,
What does raid stand for
19  cards
Lesson 11 Chapter 2 - Optical Drives
Optical drives that enable you to...,
Each of the 3 main optical drive ...,
From oldest to newest what are th...
31  cards
Lesson 11 Chapter 3 - External Drives
What are the 3 basic functions of...,
What is a drive enclosure,
What s a way a tech can use a dri...
7  cards
Lesson 11 Chapter 4 - RAID
In summary what is an array raid,
What are raid levels,
What does raid 0 disk striping do
34  cards
Lesson 12 Chapter 1 - Ticketing Systems
What are the 3 types of categorie...,
Describe the 3 categories a ticke...,
When a ticket is escalated to a h...
7  cards
Lesson 12 Chapter 2 - Asset Management
What does asset management include,
What does tangible mean,
What is intangible
10  cards
Lesson 12 Chapter 3 - Documentation
What is a network topology diagram,
What s another name for incident ...,
What do incident reports document
13  cards
Lesson 12 Chapter 4 - Change Management
What s the purpose of a change ma...,
What s the first step in a change...,
What s the purpose of a rollback ...
9  cards
Lesson 12 Chapter 5 - Disaster Prevention and Recovery
In terms of a backup what does fr...,
In terms of backup what does rete...,
What is an archive bit an att
20  cards
USB Standards
Standard 1 name and speed,
Standard 2 name and speed,
Standard 3 name and speed
23  cards

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