CompTIA A+ Hardware/OS - 9/22/2005

Today we covered Chapters 4, 5 and 6 which dealt with RAM, BIOS and the Frontside Bus respectively.

Things you should probably know:

• Know what DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM and RIMM stand for and mean.


• Know about banking – specifically how to calculate how many sticks of a given type of RAM in order to work with a given processor.


• Know the difference between System BIOS and CMOS.


• Know about the CONFIG.SYS, SYSTEM.INI and Registry files.


• Be able to recreate the list of IRQs that I gave you in class.  YOU WILL SEE THIS ON A TEST!


• Know about the different expansion slots – specifically the ISA, PCI and AGP slots.

Homework:

• Chapter 4 – Review Questions 1-10


• Chapter 5 – Review Questions 1-10


• Chapter 6 – Review Questions 1-10

Blog-Only Information:

• Pop-quiz next week on the above information!!!