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1. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.






2. Ultra extended graphics array - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1600






3. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






4. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






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






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






7. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th






8. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






9. An operating system that runs on a network server and provides file sharing and access to other resources - account management - authentication - and authorization services.






10. Aka System Information.






11. Aka customer premises equipment.






12. A server containing source files for installing software onto client computers. The shared folder containing these files is a software distribution point.






13. 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.






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






15. Aka American National Standards Institute.






16. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






17. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk






18. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






19. Aka microcode.






20. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.






21. An interconnected network. The Internet is the largest example.






22. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.






23. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






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






25. A TCP/IP protocol developed as a solution to the dwindling number of IP addresses on the Internet and that also serves to hide IP addresses on a private network from the Internet.






26. Aka Domain Name Service.






27. A key on a laptop that is pressed along with the FN key to change display modes so the output will be only to the laptop's display - only to an external display - or simultaneously to both displays. The DISPLAY MODE key is normally a function key - s






28. 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.






29. Aka thermal compound.






30. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






31. Aka refresh rate.






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






33. A wireless network standard that uses the 5 GHz band.






34. One or more lights (usually LEDs) on a device that indicate the device's operational status through the color of the light - by blinking or remaining steady or both.






35. The Microsoft Website from which you can download updates to Windows.






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






37. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






38. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the Intel 32-bit x86 specification. Also referred to as 32-bit.






39. 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.






40. Memory locations within a CPU that is used as a scratch pad for calculations. Modern CPUs have dedicated registers for specific functions and general-purpose registers for multiple purposes.






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






42. Aka Address Resolution Protocol.






43. A tool for migrating user data and settings from one Windows computer to a computer running Windows XP.






44. Aka demilitarized zone.






45. 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.






46. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






47. A Windows program that launches Internet Explorer and connects to the Windows Update Website.






48. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






49. 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.






50. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






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