CompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide

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. ...