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I'm thinking of taking the CompTia A+ exams - two of them. I decided against doing the course and have bought a (thick) book instead, which has test exams on a CD. It's a comprehensive book. I sailed through the OS exam but failed the Core (hardware) exam - 78%. I need around another 10%. I need to somehow remember all the various CPUs, their speeds, caches and connection methods (Slot 1, Socket 8...); connectors and cabling (e.g. the yellow wire on a molex is what voltage?); typical DMA, IRQ and I/O addressing; and finally, networking standards - e.g. distances between devices on a hub.

Anyone any useful suggestions on how I might remember this lot :erm: Maybe memory aids or mnemonics? Or is it a case of decorating the house with post-it notes?

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you do not need post it notes just use paper and stick them up with said sausage pizza :LOL:

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i always write down the info i need to remember, then keep condensing it and trying to write it down again from memory. using the info practically always helps me to remember, but m not sure how applicable that is in this case!
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random things (like wire colours) i always remember by making associations and twisting them until it becomes entirely logical...

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Perhaps you can find something useful here:

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/mnemonics.htm

The Acrostic technique looks like it might be useful.

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There's a green rep for he/she that understands the sausage pizza...


That's the trouble - I had my first computer aged around 8 and since then I've never needed to know that the red wire on a molex is 5V. Can't see me ever needing to know, but that's exams - test what you know about stuff that you'll never use :D I've wrote everything down but the I/O map is just :disturbd:


Yes - I've been looking at the info at trying to find possible ways of remembering it, such as pictures.

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Physical Layer, Data Link Layer, Network Layer, Transport Layer, Session Layer, Presentation Layer, Application Layer

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In other words: The Acrostic technique :D

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Otherwise known as the OSI model ;)

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:D

I will rep you as soon as I've done a bit of rep spreading.

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Oi you - back to your revision! ;)

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I don't get it.....Sausage Pizza? :dunce:

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Look at the first letter of each word, then look at Zingle's post above...

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:mad: This thread has made me hungry and there's no pizza

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Awwwwww :D

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What are you referring to as a "Molex" ??

Molex are a company that manufactures all sorts of connectors so a molex could be any one of the ones used within a PC.

Are you referring to the hard drive power cable connector?

It would look really good referring to it as a molex in the exam :D