CompTIA A+ Complete: Review Guide

1.1. COMPTIA A+ ESSENTIALS EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• 1.1 Categorize storage devices and backup media

  • FDD

  • HDD

    • Solid state vs. magnetic

  • Optical drives

    • CD / DVD/ RW / Blu-Ray

  • Removable storage

    • Tape drive

    • Solid state (e.g. thumb drive, flash, SD cards, USB)

    • External CD-RW and hard drive

    • Hot swappable devices and non-hot swappable devices

• 1.2 Explain motherboard components, types and features

  • Form Factor

    • ATX / BTX

    • micro ATX

    • NLX

  • I/O interfaces

    • Sound

    • Video

    • USB 1.1 and 2.0

    • Serial

    • IEEE 1394 / Firewire

    • Parallel

    • NIC

    • Modem

    • PS/2

  • Memory slots

    • RIMM

    • DIMM

    • SODIMM

    • SIMM

  • Processor sockets

  • Bus architecture

  • Bus slots

    • PCI

    • AGP

    • PCIe

    • AMR

    • CNR

    • PCMCIA

  • PATA

    • IDE

    • EIDE

  • SATA, eSATA

  • Contrast RAID (levels 0,1,5)

  • Chipsets

  • BIOS/ CMOS / Firmware

    • POST

    • CMOS battery

  • Riser card / daughterboard

• 1.3 Classify power supplies ...