A+ Practice Questions Hardware

Your supervisor has asked you to bring her a DE-15 connector. Which of the following is she referring to?

• DVI-A

• DVI-D

• VGA

• HDMI

What cable type is used for internal hard drives of desktop PCs?

• SATA

• PCIe

• USA C

• Lightning

Which video cable type can carry video and audio signals?

• Serial

• VGA

• Mini-HDMI

• SCSI

A technician is working on a PC that utilizes a RAID array. The user of the system has reported that random files are becoming corrupted on creation with no pattern to the activity. One drive in the array is likely failing and causing the read/write failures. Which of the following types of RAID is MOST likely in use?

• RAID 5

• RAID 10

• RAID 1

• RAID 0

How many pins are present in SATA data and power cables?

• 8 for data and 12 for power

• 15 for both power and data

• 40 for data and 4 for power

• 15 for power and 7 for data

Which of the following options is a benefit of a multi-core processor?

• Multiple cores allow more than one OS to be run virtually

• None of these are correct benefits of multi-core processors

• Multiple threads can be handled simultaneously

• Multiple CPU cores provides higher clock speeds

Which USB standard supports up to 5 Gigabit per second transfer speeds?

• 2.6

• 3.0

• 5.0

• 2.0

What of the following is a true statement regarding M.2 drives?

• M.2 drives can read CD, DVD and Blu-ray disks

• M.2 drives connect directly to the motherboard

• M.2 drives have a higher Rotations Per Minute (RPM) than SATA based drives

• M.2 drives use a 3 pin SATA cable

What connector type is usually used to provide power from a PCs power supply to an internal hard drive, CD or DVD drive?

• Molex

• USB 3.0

• DB-9

• USB-C

Rank the following starting with the fastest and ending with the slowest: IDE, SATA, SCSI

• SATA, IDE, SCSI

• SCSI, IDE, SATA

• SCSI, SATA, IDE

• IDE, SATA, SCSI