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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






2. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






3. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






4. A device that uses a measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






5. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






6. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.






7. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






8. Aka Small Outline RIMM.






9. Aka pointing stick.






10. Aka digitizing tablet.






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






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






13. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






14. On a motherboard - the type and location of components - as well as the size of the board itself.






15. The number of colors used by a display.






16. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).






17. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






18. The sudden and uncontrolled movement of electricity from an object with a greater charge to one with a lesser charge. Also called static electricity.






19. A type of KVM switch that controls computers over a distance that is a function of the cabling and protocols it uses. The two types of switches are local remote KVM switch and KVM over IP.






20. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.






21. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






22. Laser discs sold at retail stores that contain music (audio CDs) or software (data CDs).






23. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






24. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






25. A plug designed for testing a specific port type (e.g. - serial - parallel - or USB). The plug does not connect to a cable but reroutes the sending pins to the receiving pins. Using special software on the computer - a loopback test is performed in w






26. [1] A device that is the central connecting point of a LAN. A hub is little more than a multiport repeater taking incoming signals on one port and repeating them to all other ports. Ethernet hubs have been largely replaced by Ethernet switches.. [2]






27. A communications system - owned and operated by the telephone companies - that multiplexes voice and data signals onto digital transmission line.






28. Aka power-on self-test.






29. A device that converts DC current to AC. An inverter is required in a laptop to provide the AC current required by the display.






30. A TPM is a special microchip - installed on a motherboard - that stores passwords - keys - and digital certificates. Various services - such as BitLocker can store such security data in this chip.






31. A level of service offered by the telephone companies over a T-carrier circuit that provides full-duplex transmissions at 1.544 Mbps - carrying digital voice - data - or video signals.






32. An operating system recovery tool introduced in Windows Me and improved in later versions of Windows. System Restore creates restore points - which are snapshots of Windows - its configuration - and all installed programs. If your computer has nonfat






33. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






34. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






35. A utility for migrating data from many computers - or if you need to perform what Microsoft calls a "wipe-and-load migration" from and to the same computer. Available in Windows XP - Vista - and Windows 7.






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






37. Aka digitizing tablet.






38. A printer that includes one or more other functions - such as a scanner and fax machine.






39. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.






40. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






41. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






42. The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from one point to another.






43. 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.






44. Aka Balanced Technology eXtended.






45. Aka FAT file system.






46. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






47. An encryption technology introduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions - Windows Server 2008 - and also in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. It encrypts the entire boot volume.






48. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.






49. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






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