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Comptia A + Certification

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1. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






2. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






3. A laptop is a small - easily transported computer - generally weighing less than 7 pounds and with roughly the same dimensions as a 1- to 2-inch-thick stack of magazines. Laptops computers have an all-in-one layout in which the keyboard - and often t






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






5. A network in which all of the computers essentially operate as both servers (providing access to shared resources) and clients (accessing those shared resources).






6. Aka denial of service (DoS) attack.






7. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






8. Aka thread.






9. Aka Static RAM.






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






11. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.






12. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.






13. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






14. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






15. Aka uniqueness database file.






16. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






17. Aka master boot record.






18. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.






19. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






20. In a Wi-Fi network - the networking mode that allows peer-to-peer communications without the use of a centralized wireless hub - called a wireless access point (WAP).






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






22. Aka expansion bus.






23. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






24. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.






25. A disk that uses basic storage - which means that it uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






26. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.






27. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.






28. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






29. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






30. The settings within a registry key.






31. An obsolete memory module standard that was produced in 30-pin and 72-pin sizes. Thirty-pin SIMMs are 8-bit - and 72-pin SIMMs are 32-bit.






32. 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.






33. A version of the FAT file system used by hard drives and some flash drives (thumb drives - etc.) - using a 32-bit file allocation table.






34. Introduced in Windows 2000 - a user interface for Windows administration tools that is flexible and configurable.






35. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






36. A primary partition that is marked for use by the system during startup. Windows operating systems can only be booted from an active partition.






37. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






38. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






39. A Windows service designed to allow a user to invite someone to help troubleshoot a problem.






40. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






41. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






42. The black box that appears around an image - such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.






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






44. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






45. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






46. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






47. An automated software installation that does not require a person be present to respond to prompts for information.






48. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th






49. The file system component in the FAT file system in which the OS creates a table that serves as a map of where files reside on disk. Also called the FAT table.






50. In a low-profile PC case - a card that plugs into a motherboard to allow other cards to be inserted at a right angle to the riser card and parallel to the motherboard. Also - a single expansion card containing multiple functions - such as modem - sou