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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A file used with a scripted unattended installation along with an answer file. The UDF file provides settings that are unique for each computer.






2. A service that manages Microsoft NetBIOS names for a Windows network. This service is becoming obsolete - as Windows has moved to DNS for naming and name service.






3. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






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






5. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).






6. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.






7. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






8. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.






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






10. The practice - mostly among gamers - of modifying a computer case.






11. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.






12. 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.






13. The early standard developed by PCMCIA for credit-card-sized devices used in laptops.






14. The conversion of data into a special format that cannot be read by anyone unless they have a software key to convert it back into its usable form.






15. Software that runs on the computers in a network and that receives services from servers.






16. Aka Enhanced IDE.






17. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






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






19. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






20. 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.






21. Aka virtual file allocation table.






22. One of the two prevailing CPU manufacturers.






23. The amount of data that can travel over a network at a given time.






24. 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






25. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






26. The process that authenticates a user and verifies the user account's level of access to a resource.






27. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






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






29. Aka low-voltage differential (LVD).






30. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






31. Aka input/output.






32. A process applied to digitally signed code to unencrypt the signature data and use the information to verify the program code was not modified since the signature was added.






33. Aka power-on self-test.






34. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.






35. A non-routable network protocol suite for use only in small networks.






36. Aka Digital Light Processing.






37. Aka digital linear tape.






38. Aka channel service unit.






39. Fiber-optic cable that allows only a single light wave to pass down the cable.






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






41. An LCD display that uses a DB-15 connector - which means that it accepts analog signals that it converts to digital.






42. In a laser printer - a wire that stretches across the printer's drum - not touching it - but positioned very close to the drum's surface so it can pass high voltage to the drum.






43. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






44. 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).






45. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






46. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.






47. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.






48. A measurement of the pressure of electrons - the electromotive force. It is calculated by the formula volts = watts / amps.






49. A set of technologies that allow voice transmission over an IP network






50. A blanket term used for DVD discs regardless of the type of data they contain.