CompTIA A+ Complete Fast Pass
Chapter One
Personal Computer
Components
COMPTIA A+ ESSENTIALS EXAM
OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
1.1 Identify the fundamental principles of using personal
computers
* Identify the names, purposes, and characteristics of
storage devices
* FDD
* HDD
* CD / DVD / RW (e.g., drive speeds, media types)
* Removable storage (e.g., tape drive, solid state, such as
thumb drive, flash and SD cards, USB, external CD-RW,
and hard drive)
* Identify the names, purposes, and characteristics of
motherboards
* Form Factor (e.g., ATX / BTX, micro ATX / NLX)
* Components
* Integrated I/Os (e.g., sound, video, USB, serial, IEEE
1394 / firewire, parallel, NIC, modem)
* Memory slots (e.g., RIMM, DIMM)
* Processor sockets
* External cache memory
* Bus architecture
* Bus slots (e.g., ... read full excerpt from CompTIA A+ Complete Fast Pass ebook