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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka liquid crystal display.






2. 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.






3. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the second channel.






4. 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.






5. An LCD display characteristic that indicates the amount of time in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a single pixel to go from the active to the inactive state and back again.






6. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






7. Aka security auditing.






8. Aka digital video interface.






9. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






10. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






11. A single-pin RCA phone jack for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and speakers.






12. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






13. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






14. A device that stores a large amount of information - even when it is powered off.






15. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






16. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






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






18. In power supplies - the amount of wattage the power supply can handle.






19. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.






20. In the laser printing process - the step in which the toner on the drum is transferred to the paper.






21. Aka arithmetic logic unit.






22. Threats that are not truly malicious code - but can have indirect negative effects - such as decreasing performance or using up bandwidth. Grayware includes spyware - adware - spam - and spim.






23. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.






24. Aka boot record.






25. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






26. Two or more disks working together in one of the several RAID schemes.






27. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






28. A word used to describe memory that cannot work without a steady supply of power.






29. A method for supporting up to 8.3 GB capacity hard drives. Both the BIOS and hard drive system must use LBA.






30. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.






31. A cooling system that uses liquid to transfer heat away from components.






32. Aka taskbar.






33. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.






34. A component that you can install into a system onsite - such as memory modules - heat sinks - and CMOS batteries.






35. A file operation in which the file or folder remains in the source location - and a duplicate is created in the target (destination) location.






36. In the laser printing process - a blade that removes residual toner from the drum.






37. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






38. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






39. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






40. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.






41. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






42. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts






43. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.






44. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






45. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.






46. 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.






47. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.






48. 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






49. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






50. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.