Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

QUESTION – Which of the following are examples of a male serial connection? (Choose all that apply). A.    B.     C.     D.    E.    F.    G.      Answer and Explanation: The correct answers for this question are choices A and C. “A” represents a D-sub 9 Connector which is commonly used in serial ports (RS-232). See D-sub 9 Connector Pinout for additional information. “C” represents a D-sub 25 Connector which is also used in serial ports (RS-232). See RS232 serial cables pinout for additional information “B” represents a parallel port input also known as a printer port or Centronics port. The IEEE 1284 standard defines the bi-directional version of the port, which allows the transmission and reception of data bits at the same time. For more information please see the Wikipedia post “parallel port” “D” in the D-sub 9 female connector....

QUESTION – Which of the following are examples of a male serial connection? (Choose all that apply).   A.      B.       C.       D.          E.      F.      G.        Check back tomorrow for the answer and explanation of today’s question.

As part of putting the site back online and going back to the originally planned posting schedule, The Certification Question of the Day is going to be making its return. I did this in the past for the CompTIA A+ Exam certification questions and because of the number of request for it, I am going to be returning them as well as questions for the CCNA certification exam, the Network+ certification exam, the Windows 7 70-680 exam and the Security+ exam. If there are other exams that you might be interested in seeing QOFD for please let me know. As I did prior, I will put “QOTD” in the category field for easier searching here on the site as well as the certification it applies to (e.g. “CompTIA A+” or “70-680” – etc.) A day after a post, I will repost the question with the accompanying answer. Thanks again for all the input – keep it coming. 

I engaged in some email correspondence with the site owner of MCMCSE.com (Jason Sprague) regarding his free A+ Study Guides on their Study Center page. They currently have them listed as the 220-701 and 220-702 guides but upon further review I did notice that they were still the material from the 601 and 602 exams (which is still about 70% relevant to the 2009 exam release). I wanted to find out if he was going to have an update to this soon as I had students starting an A+ class and I wanted to offer them the links as additional study material. Jason explained to me that as of right now it was a work in progress to get the information updated but that it had to be put on the back burner for a bit. I am going to be preparing notes and updates for my class and I offered to assist with the content update. Over the next few weeks you can expect to see the content for 220-701 and 220-702 posted here and migrated into the guides that Jason offers as well. Technorati Tags: A...