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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






2. A compartment in a portable computer's case that holds a single media device that can be swapped with another. For instance - you may swap an optical drive - a secondary hard drive - or a floppy drive into and out of a single bay.






3. Aka access control entry.






4. A wireless data encryption standard based on the IEEE 802.11i security standard. It issues keys per-user and per-session and includes encryption key integrity checking. It uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).






5. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






6. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






7. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to bring up a small volume control panel on the display. Using the up (?) or right (?) arrow key - the volume will increase. To decrease the volume - press the FN key and the SPEAKER VOLUME key along






8. BIOS that can be electronically upgraded.






9. Wide-ultra-extended graphics array






10. Aka audio modem riser.






11. Aka motherboard.






12. A computer (or dedicated device) that sits between a private network and an untrusted network and examines all traffic in and out of the network it is protecting. It will block any traffic it recognizes as a potential threat - using a variety of tech






13. A device used to scan smart cards.






14. The fine copper lines that are the electronic circuits through which power - data - and control signals travel on a circuit board.






15. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






16. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






17. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






18. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






19. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






20. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






21. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






22. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






23. A Windows folder that contains numerous applets you can use to adjust the configuration of many different aspects of the OS.






24. A communication service provided over a telecommunications network or computer network. A VC logically resembles a circuit while passing over a complex routed or switched network - such as the phone company's frame relay network.






25. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






26. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.






27. Aka secure socket layer.






28. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.






29. Aka thermal compound.






30. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.






31. Aka Wireless Fidelity.






32. Aka electronic KVM switch.






33. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize more than 4 GB of address space. Depending on the version - 64-bit Windows can address a maximum of from 8 to 192 GB.






34. Aka Small Computer System Interface.






35. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet. TLS succeeded SSL.






36. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






37. The proportion between an image's width and height. Traditional CRT monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3. Widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.






38. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






39. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.






40. A protocol used with WPA wireless encryption that was broken by hackers.






41. Aka taskbar.






42. The type of connector used in the ExpressCard interface.






43. Aka Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).






44. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.






45. Aka wireless access point.






46. Aka Advanced Technology.






47. The classic PC serial port that complies with the Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232) in its circuitry - cabling - and connector design - and transfers data one bit at a time.






48. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






49. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






50. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.