CompTIA A+® Complete Deluxe Study Guide:Exams 220-701 (Essentials) and 220-702 (Practical Application)

2.5. Summary

In this chapter, you learned about personal computer components, specifically storage devices, power supplies, input devices, and adapter cards. We covered storage devices, such as hard drives, both conventional and solid state; floppy drives; optical drives; tape drives; and flash memory. We discussed power supply safety, as well as the various connectors and formats, and investigated the similarity between power supplies and AC adapters. Well-known input devices, such as the mouse and keyboard, and less conventional, yet popular, input devices were also examined in this chapter. You also learned about the KVM switch, a device that allows you to share input devices among computers. The adapter cards highlighted in this chapter ...