Chapter 13. Installing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Hardware
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA A+ PRACTICAL APPLICATION EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
1.1 Given a scenario, install, configure and maintain personal computer components
Storage devices
HDD
SATA
PATA
Solid state
FDD
Optical drives
CD / DVD / RW / Blu-Ray
Removable
External
Motherboards
Jumper settings
CMOS battery
Advanced BIOS settings
Bus speeds
Chipsets
Firmware updates
Socket types
Expansion slots
Memory slots
Front panel connectors
I/O ports
Sound, video, USB 1.1, USB 2.0, serial, IEEE 1394 / Firewire, parallel, NIC, modem, PS/2)
Power supplies
Wattages and capacity
Connector types and quantity
Output voltage
Processors
Socket types
Speed
Number of cores
Power consumption
Cache
Front side bus
32bit vs. ...
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