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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.






2. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






3. The number of colors used by a display.






4. An EIDE drive setting that has the system select the drive's role (master or slave) based on the drive's position on the cable. If the drive is on the end of the cable - it is the master drive - and if it is in the middle of the cable - it is the sla






5. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.






6. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






7. A standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments to communicate with computers and among themselves.






8. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.






9. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






10. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






11. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






12. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






13. A single-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 4.7 GB of data - or over two hours of video.






14. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays






15. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.






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






17. Aka thread.






18. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






19. Aka American National Standards Institute.






20. A plastic card - often the size of a credit card - that contains a microchip. The microchip can store information and perform functions - depending on the type of smart card. Some smart cards only store data - whereas others may have a variety of fun






21. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






22. 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.






23. Aka external cache.






24. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






25. 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.






26. Signals broadcast through the air.






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






28. Aka Internet service provider.






29. A protocol used by e-mail clients for communicating with e-mail servers. This protocol is replacing the POP protocol. IMAP allows users to connect to e-mail servers and not only retrieve e-mail - which removes the messages from the server - as they c






30. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.






31. The first type of RAM available. It is very fast - compared to DRAM - but also very expensive.






32. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






33. Aka Domain Name Service.






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






35. A firewall service that inspects (or filters) each packet that enters or leaves the network - applying a set of security rules defined by a network administrator - and not allowing packets that fail inspection to pass between networks.






36. A double-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 17.08 GB of data - or over eight hours of video.






37. Aka interrupt request line.






38. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo






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






40. The EXPLORER.EXE program. This program supports the entire Windows GUI. If EXPLORER.EXE is called up from inside the GUI - it opens a window for browsing your local disks and files.






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






42. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






43. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






44. The filename for the System Configuration Utility - which allows you to test various scenarios for Windows startup for troubleshooting purposes.






45. Aka virtual file allocation table.






46. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






47. A Windows wizard that sets options for starting and running a specific old program that will not otherwise run properly in Windows.






48. A power supply and motherboard feature that allows software to turn off a computer rather than only using a physical switch.






49. A standard for hard drives that attach to the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface.






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