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Seminar

On
Computer Hardware
COMPTIA A+: PREPARING TODAY’S IT PROS FOR
TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY
Today’s IT professionals face an expanding variety of
technical issues. CompTIA A+ has been updated to
address the increased diversity of knowledge required of
IT technicians and validates what is currently
necessary to perform effectively on the job.

Broad adoption of mobile


Foundational level skills, devices requires knowledge of
vendor neutral & ISO 17024 a greater variety of operating
compliant systems.

Technicians are increasingly Network infrastructure has


at the front line of cyber become more reliant on the cloud
security.
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CAREER ADVANCEMENT FOR IT
PROFESSIONALS

Experienc Job Roles


e
• Six to 12 months • Technical Support
hands on Specialist
experience in lab • Field Service
or field Technician
• IT Support Technician
• IT Administrator
• IT Support Specialist

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CONTENT

 What is Computer Hardware?


 Components of Computer

 Computer Input Devices

 Computer Output Devices

 The Central Processing Unit

 Motherboard

 Computer Memory

 Floppy Drive

 DVD Drives

 Reference
A+ EXAM DETAILS
Exam • 2 certification exams
Requirement
• 220-001 & 220-902 (professional)
Exam Numbers • JK0-901 & JK0-902 (academic)

• Performance-based and multiple choice


Exam Format • 90 minutes
• 90 questions maximum

Six to 12 months of hands on experience


Recommended Exp. •
in a lab or field

Languages •
•
English- 12/15/2015
Japanese, German, Spanish, French
(2016)

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WHAT IS COMPUTER HARDWARE?

 Computer Hardware is the


physical part of the
computer system, the
machinery and equipment.
COMPONENTS OF COMPUTER
COMPUTER INPUT DEVICES

 Computer Devices that


input information in the
computer

Examples
 Key Board
 Mouse

 Scanner

 Digital Camera
COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES

 Computer Devices that


output information from
the computer.

Examples
 Monitor
 Printer
THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

• CPU (Central Processing Unit) also called


the Microprocessor or “The Brain” of the
Computer.
• Processor speed: The speed at which a
microprocessor executes instructions. This is
usually measured in megahertz (MHz).
• Brands of Processors include:
Pentium

Celeron

MAC
AMD
Cyrix
PARTS OF CPU
MOTHERBOARD

 Main circuit board inside


your computer is called a
motherboard.
 The motherboard
contains the connectors
for attaching additional
boards, such as the CPU,
BIOS, memory, mass
storage interfaces, serial
and parallel ports,
expansion slots and all
the controllers that are
required to control
standard peripheral
devices such as the
display screen, keyboard,
and hard drive.
MOTHERBOARD

 Here we see a diagram


and a photo of a
motherboard (or main
circuit board).
This one is suitable for a
Pentium CPU
COMPUTER MEMORY: (RAM)

 Before your CPU can process any instructions


you give it, those instructions must be stored
somewhere, in preparation for access by the
microprocessor
 The more memory that is available in a machine,
the more instructions and data that can be
stored at one time.
COMPUTER MEMORY: (RAM)

 Ifthe computer does not have enough RAM to


run an application than pieces of the running
application will be stored on the Hard Drive
temporarily in a method known as “Virtual
Memory” and the CPU will then have to retrieve
information from the virtual memory causing a
bottleneck in the system.
 RAM is measured in bytes.
FLOPPY DRIVE

 Storage Devices -- "How it saves data


and
programs“
Hard disk drives are an internal,
higher capacity drive which also
stores the operating system which
runs when you power on the
computer.-
"Floppy" disk drives allow you to
save work on small disks and take
the data with you.
FEATURES:- FLOPPY DISK

Diskettes (Floppy
Disks)
Speed:
Very slow!
Capacity:

Normally 1.44 Mbytes .


Cost:

Very cheap .
HARD DISKS

Speed: Very fast!


The speed of a hard disk is often
quoted as "average access time"
speed, measured in milliseconds. The
smaller this number the faster the
disk.
 Capacity:
Enormous! Often 40/80 Gigabytes. A
Gigabyte is
equivalent to 1024 Megabytes.
 Cost:
Hard disks costs are falling rapidly
and normally
represent the cheapest way of storing
data.
CD-ROM DRIVE

 They are disc drives which


read Compact Discs (CDs).
They are transportable
and can be used to perform
various tasks such as
reading data from the
computer and listening to
audio.
 Data is written on a CD by
burning pits into the disc
to produce non-reflective
areas.
DVD DRIVES

 Computer DVD drives can


be used to watch DVD
video, play audio CDs and
store information on DVDs
and CDs. DVD drives are
now being installed in new
computers instead of CD
drives.
 Computer DVD drives are
able to read data stored on
CD-ROMS and DVDs and
can play both video and
audio DVDs. CD-ROM
drives cannot read DVDs.
THANKS

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