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Comptia A + Certification
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A cooling fan mounted directly on the case - as opposed to a power supply fan - which is inside the power supply.
case fan
DLP
system bus
system tray
2. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
cookies
basic input/output system (BIOS)
biometric logon
3. Aka digital versatile disc (DVD).
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
file signature verification
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
DVD
4. 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
Trojan horse
smart card
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
LBA
5. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.
special group
ultra-portable
activation
Ethernet
6. A strap designed to discharge static electricity from your body. One end attaches to the wrist - whereas the other end attaches to a grounded object.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Video Electronics Standards Organization (VESA)
laptop
antistatic wrist strap
7. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
drive-by download
RJ-11
audio modem riser (AMR)
8. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.
volume
real-time clock (RTC)
RAID controller
connector
9. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.
slot cover
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Internet service provider (ISP)
Safe Mode With Command Prompt
10. Aka systray.
magnetic mass storage
notification area
swap file
cleaning blade
11. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.
server
SD Card
digital LCD display
x86
12. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.
Intel Corporation
DVD-RAM
data migration
ECP
13. Aka IEEE 1394.
SODIMM
wireless access point (WAP)
system file
FireWire
14. A KVM switch that uses software and special keyboard commands to switch among controlled computers. Also called anactive KVM switch.
port replicator
RGB video
Performance Monitor
electronic KVM switch
15. A standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments to communicate with computers and among themselves.
video graphics array (VGA)
EPP
musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
encrypted authentication
16. In the laser printing process - the step in which the laser beam creates a negative of the image that will eventually appear on the printout. Each place that the laser beam touches loses most of its charge - creating an image - whereas the rest of th
planar board
WINS Server
chrominance
writing
17. Aka floppy disk drive.
stand-alone computer
RAID controller
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
FDD
18. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.
UPS
Safe Mode With Networking
intranet
802.11b
19. The code used to provide multiple language support to Windows.
horizontal position
Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
denial of service (DoS) attack
system requirements
20. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.
DDR SDRAM
mount point
active KVM switch
compact disc (CD)
21. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
digital video discs
terminating resistor
DDR1
CMOS
22. Aka PCIe.
PCI-E
hot-swappable drive
FireWire
serial ATA (SATA)
23. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.
adware
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
virtual memory
RJ-11
24. A power supply that only accepts one input power voltage.
drive path
routing information protocol (RIP)
fixed input power supply
HDMI
25. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.
graphical processing unit (GPU)
PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express)
contrast ratio
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
26. Synchronous graphics random access memory is a type of RAM used on video adapters.
SGRAM
power state
taskbar
distribution server
27. A file system in which one of the basic structures is a table used for allocating space. This table is called the file allocation table (FAT).
paging file
NSLOOKUP
FAT file system
NTFS permissions
28. Aka World Wide Web.
WWW
VESA
CMOS settings
intranet
29. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data
virtual private network (VPN)
single-sided (SS) DVD
internal cache memory
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
30. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that the video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Wind
miniconnector
Enable Low Resolution Video
DDR2 SDRAM
digital LCD display
31. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.
IEEE
optical drive
Device Manager
mini-audio connector
32. A 25-pin D-shell connector.
basic storage
bluesnarfing
FAT12
DB-25
33. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.
card services
AMD
SDRAM
PS/2
34. A type of printer that transfers ink to paper by causing a print head to strike a printer ribbon containing ink against the paper.
WPA
primary slave
quad-core CPU
impact printer
35. One of many low-level instructions built into the control unit of a CPU. Also called a microprogram.
Directory Services Restore Mode
peer-to-peer network
microcode
striping with interleave parity
36. A fiber-optic connector that resembles an RJ-45 network connector and is less expensive and easier to work with than ST or SC connectors.
Digital Light Processing (DLP)
vertical hold
Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack (MT-RJ) connector
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
37. A small device containing a microchip used to generate unique passwords for logging on to a computer or a network.
auditing
key fob
secondary slave
MBR
38. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.
DDR3
permission
status light indicator
satellite communications
39. Aka digital linear tape.
flash BIOS
access control entry (ACE)
access control
DLT
40. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.
lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery
spyware
BNC
802.11n
41. A specialized type of scanner that reads bar codes - which are patterns of bars of varying widths printed on labels or directly on items. The bar pattern is converted into a numeric code that is transmitted to a computer as data.
Type I
encryption
bar code reader
routing information protocol (RIP)
42. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.
memory controller chip (MCC)
XGA
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
pointing stick
43. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.
memory bank
interrupt request line (IRQ)
parity
dynamic disk
44. A scaled-down laptop in the ultra-portable category - designed for Internet access. Aka also ultra-portable and mini-notebook.
netbook
metropolitan area network (MAN)
Enable Low Resolution Video
ECC
45. 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.
jumper
embedded systems
flash BIOS
TrackPoint
46. Aka virtual file allocation table.
mass storage device
VFAT
microcode
SORIMM
47. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.
uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
ANSI
composite video
HDMI
48. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.
inkjet
IEEE 1394c-2006
ink cartridge
SCSI host adapter
49. A value assigned to a process that controls the order in which the program code is executed in relation to other code.
PPP
parity
WRAM
process priority level
50. A server containing source files for installing software onto client computers. The shared folder containing these files is a software distribution point.
striping with distributed parity
DDR2
super video graphics array (SVGA)
distribution server