May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
50h 2m
English
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Chapter 2Expansion Cards, Storage Devices, and Power Supplies
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA A+ 220-1101 EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- 3.3 Given a scenario, select and install storage devices.
- Hard drives
- Speeds
- 5,400rpm
- 7,200rpm
- 10,000rpm
- 15,000rpm
- Speeds
- Form factor
- 2.5
- 3.5
- SSDs
- Communications interfaces
- Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
- SATA
- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)
- Form factors
- M.2
- mSATA
- Communications interfaces
- Drive configurations
- Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks (RAID) 0, 1, 5, 10
- Removable storage
- Flash drives
- Memory cards
- Optical drives
- Hard drives
- 3.4 Given a scenario, install and configure motherboards, central processing units (CPUs), and add-on cards.
- Expansion cards
- Sound card
- Video card ...
- Expansion cards