Comptia A+ Chapter 1

Front 1

Motherboard

Back 1

Spine of the computer aka main board, system board. ..it links all other components together

Hint 1

What is this?

Front 2

PCB

Back 2

Printed circuit board, a conductive series of pathways laminated to a non-conductive substrate

Hint 2

Type of board

Front 3

Substrate

Back 3

In electronics & thin film elections, the physical material upon which a semi -conductor device is applied

Front 4

ATX

Back 4

Advanced technology extended

Hint 4

Motherboard

Front 5

ITX

Back 5

Information technology extended. ....Motherboard form factor developed as a low-power small form factor

Hint 5

Home theater system&embedded components

Front 6

Throughput

Back 6

How far the signal can travel and the amount of data moved power unit of time

Front 7

Bus architecture

Back 7

Serial connectivity

Parallel connectivity

Hint 7

Two types

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System board components

Back 8

Chip set

Expansion slots & buses

Memory shoes and external cache

Part connectors

CPU & their sockets

Inboard disc drive connectors

Keyboard connectors

BIOS /firmware

Integrated peripheral parts and headers

CMOS battery

Front panel connectors

Jumpers and dip switched

Hint 8

12 components

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Bus

Back 9

Common collection of signal pathways over which related devices communicate within the computer system

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BSB

Back 10

Backside bus. ..set signals between cpu and level 2 or 3 cache memory

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FSB

Back 11

Front side bus. ..set of signal pathways connecting the cpu and main memory

Front 12

Southbridge

Back 12

Supporting onboard slower peripherals, managing communications with the rest of the computer& resources given to them

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Northridge

Back 13

Management of high speed peripherals communication

Front 14

Chipset

Back 14

Collection of chips or circuit that perform interface and peripheral functions for processors

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Back 15

.....

Front 16

CNR

Back 16

Communication and network riser.....slot found on older Intel mb replaced earlier amr slots

Front 17

GPU

Back 17

Graphic processing unit

Front 18

PCIe

Back 18

Peripheral component interconnect express

X1 X2 x4 x8 x12 x16 x32

Newer expansion slot architecture being used by MB replaces AGP & PCI

Fastest and flexability

Front 19

SLI

Back 19

Scalable link interface

Front 20

AGP

Back 20

Accelerated graphic port

Front 21

PCI-x

Back 21

Peripheral components interconnect -

Uses same spot as 64 bit PCI

Max throughput 4266Mbps~ 4.3GBps...

Speed and support for got plugging but no match for PCIe

Front 22

PCI

Back 22

Peripherals component interconnect. ..

Operates@33 or 66mhz over 32 bit channel resulting in data rates at 133 or 266

Front 23

Expansion slot

Back 23

PCI,

AGP

PCIE

PCI-X

CNR

Front 24

Cache memory

Back 24

Very fast form of memory forged from static RAM

Hint 24

Predicting what's needed next and prefetching. it

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Virtual memory

Back 25

Swap file or passing file uses hard drive as additional RAM

Front 26

SIMM

Back 26

Single inline memory module

Hint 26

Older memory factor form factor that began the trend of placing memory chips on modules

Front 27

SODIMM

Back 27

Small outline dual inline memory module

Front 28

DIMM

Back 28

Dual inline memory module

Hint 28

Type of circuit board memory chips are arranged on. ..168, 184, 240 pin configuration

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RAM

Back 29

Random access memory

Hint 29

Primary memory that is used to store currently used data and instructions for cpu

Front 30

Increasing order of capacity and distance from processor

Back 30

L1Cache :64 KB

L2 Cache :256 KB

L3 Cache :4 MB - 12 MB

RAM: 4-16GB

HDD/SD 100s -1000s GB

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MBR

Back 31

Master boot record

Front 32

BIOS

Back 32

Basic input/output system

Front 33

Firmware

Back 33

Name given to any software encoded in hardware, usually a ROM

Front 34

OS

Back 34

Operating system

Front 35

ROM

Back 35

Read only-memory

Front 36

ZIF

Back 36

Zero insertion force socket

Hint 36

Uses plastic or metal lever

Front 37

LGA

Back 37

Land Grid Array

Hint 37

Places delicate pins on motherboard instead of on CPU

Front 38

PGA

Back 38

Pin grid array

Hint 38

Has holes to receive the pins on the cpu

Front 39

CPU

Back 39

Central processing unit

Hint 39

The"brain"of any computer

Front 40

HDD

Back 40

Hard disk drive

Front 41

SMP

Back 41

Symmetric multiprocessor

Hint 41

OS must support SMP to take advantage of HTT

Front 42

HTT

Back 42

Hyperthreading. Technology

Hint 42

Htt capable processors appear to os as 2 processors resulting in 2 processes at same time

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ESD

Back 43

Electrostatic discharge

Front 44

CMOS

Back 44

Complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor

Hint 44

Memory chip

Front 45

GPU

Back 45

Graphic processing unit

Front 46

SPEED

Back 46

Clock frequency (MHz or GHz)

Hint 46

System clock

Front 47

Throttling

Back 47

Reducing the operating frequency of CPU at less demanding operation or during battery operation

Hint 47

Very common in mobile devices

Front 48

DDR3 SDRAM

Back 48

double data rate type three synchronous dynamic random-access memory

Hint 48

Double performance of DDR2, double pumping cont. for operations occur (8 cycle)

Front 49

DDR2 SDRAM

Back 49

double data rate type two synchronous dynamic random-access memory

Hint 49

Lost pal voltage to keep power consumption down, double pumping 4x throughput

Front 50

Module throughput

Back 50

FSB MHZ (seconds)

X 8 Bytes (bytes)

= throughput (bytes/seconds)

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DDR SDRAM

Back 51

Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory

Front 52

SDRAM DRAM

Back 52

Single data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory

Hint 52

System clock ticks=1 bit data that is transmitted per data pin

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SDRAM

Back 53

Synchronous dynamic random access memory

Hint 53

Shares a common clock with the computer system bus clock

Front 54

ADRAM

Back 54

Asynchronous dynamic random access memory

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DRAM

Back 55

Dynamic random access memory

Hint 55

Expansion of memory your adding DRAM

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Bottleneck

Back 56

Communicating over single channel in an environment where CPU and memory can operate faster than the conduit between them

Front 57

SODIMM

Back 57

Small outline dual inline memory module

Front 58

MicroDIMM

Back 58

Micro dual inline memory module

Hint 58

Newer, smaller, rarer ram form factor 50% smaller than SODIMM

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RIMM

Back 59

Rambus inline memory module

Front 60

C-RIMM

Back 60

Continuity rambus inline memory module

Hint 60

A sort of blank

Front 61

CT-RIMM

Back 61

Continuity&termination rambus inline memory module

Hint 61

32 bit required

Front 62

DIMM

Back 62

Dual inline memory module

Front 63

ROM

Back 63

read only memory

Hint 63

Stores BIOS, enables system to boot

Front 64

SRAM

Back 64

Static random access memory

Front 65

DR DRAM

Back 65

Direct Rambus dynamic random access memory

Front 66

Air flow

Back 66

Back to front pull air through

Front 67

Fans

Back 67

Front intake

Rear exhaust

Power supply exhaust

CPU

chipset

Video card chipset