Chapter 2
Internal Expansion, Storage Devices, and Power Supplies
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA A+ 220-1001 EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- ✓ 3.4 Given a scenario, select, install, and configure storage devices.
- Optical drives
- CD-ROM/CD-RW
- DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/DVD-RW DL
- Blu-ray
- BD-R
- BD-RE
- Solid-state drives
- M2 drives
- NVME
- SATA 2.5
- Magnetic hard drives
- 5,400rpm
- 7,200rpm
- 10,000rpm
- 15,000rpm
- Sizes:
- 2.5
- 3.5
- Hybrid drives
- Flash
- SD card
- CompactFlash
- Micro-SD card
- Mini-SD card
- xD
- Configurations
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
- Hot swappable
- Optical drives
- ✓ 3.5 Given a scenario, install and configure motherboards, CPUs, and add-on cards.
- Expansion cards
- Video cards
- Onboard
- Add-on card
- Sound cards
- Network interface card
- USB expansion card
- eSATAcard
- Video cards
- Expansion cards
- ✓ 3.7 Summarize power supply types and features.
- Input 115V vs. 220V
- Output 5.5V vs. 12V
- 24-pin motherboard adapter
- Wattage rating
- Number of devices/types of devices to be powered
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