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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A type of printer that uses a film coated with colored wax that melts onto paper. These printers are similar to dye-sublimation printers but differ in two major ways: the film contains wax rather than dye - and these printers do not require special p






2. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






3. On a cable network - the device used at the customer site for the analog/digital conversion.






4. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






5. A round connector that gets its name from Deutsche Industrie Norm - a German standards organization. Normally a round connector with a circular or semicircle of pins.






6. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 5.0 millimeters thick.






7. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






8. A system resource that certain devices - such as sound cards and hard drives - can use to move data between the device and system RAM without involving the processor.






9. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






10. Aka low-voltage differential (LVD).






11. A screen device for video output. Also called a monitor.






12. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






13. Aka thread.






14. Aka low-voltage differential.






15. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






16. Aka point-to-point protocol.






17. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






18. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






19. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet.






20. An input device that uses a stylus. Available as an external device - it uses touch screen technology and is usually at least the size of a sheet of paper. Also called a digitizer.






21. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






22. In an operating system GUI - a tiny graphic representing an application - folder - disk - menu item - or other entity.






23. A physical area where a Wi-Fi network connects to the Internet.






24. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600






25. An installation of Windows that is not automated - where the user is required to pay attention throughout the entire process to provide information and to respond to messages. Also called a manual installation.






26. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.






27. A file used during an unattended installation of Windows. It provides a script of responses to the questions Setup asks so the user does not have to answer them manually.






28. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






29. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.






30. A technology for transferring serial data at high speeds. Also known as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






31. Aka single inline memory module.






32. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






33. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.






34. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.






35. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.






36. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.






37. Encrypted data placed in a file to guard against tampering.






38. Aka random access memory.






39. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.






40. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






41. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






42. In router configuration - a term that is used to describe traffic that is allowed - as in allowing traffic using a certain port number through the router.






43. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






44. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






45. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






46. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






47. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.






48. A measurement of the volume of electrons - also called current. It is calculated with the formula amps = watts / volts.






49. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






50. A Windows command prompt utility that uses the WFP (Windows 2000 and Windows XP) or WRP (Windows Vista and Windows 7) service to scan and verify the versions of all protected system files after you restart your computer.