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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka compact disc.






2. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






3. Aka continuity RIMM.






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






5. Aka KVM switch.






6. Aka nickel-cadmium.






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






8. 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.






9. Aka floppy disk drive.






10. A chip that keeps track of the date and time on a PC. Set the date and time through your operating system or in the BIOS Setup program.






11. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






12. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






13. Aka MSCONFIG.






14. A program file or some special data file that is part of the operating system and is very important to proper operation of the OS.






15. Aka expansion bus.






16. A drive that can be safely installed and removed while a computer is up and running without damaging the data stored on the drive.






17. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






18. Aka analog modem.






19. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.






20. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






21. A type of thermal printer in which a heated print head burns dots into the surface of heat-sensitive paper.






22. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






23. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






24. Aka Enhanced IDE.






25. 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.






26. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






27. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.






28. 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.






29. 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






30. One or more chips designed to work closely with the CPU. Two parts of this chipset are the Northbridge and the Southbridge.






31. Aka PCIe.






32. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






33. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






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






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






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






37. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.






38. A variety of persuasion techniques used for many purposes






39. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






40. A CRT video setting - also known at horizontal hold - that holds the image horizontally on the screen.






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






42. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






43. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).






44. 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






45. The third version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it is a departure from the old standards in that it uses Category 5e twisted pair cable with RJ-45 connectors - combining Ethernet and FireWire.






46. A set of skills - behaviors - and attitudes to use when listening to another person.






47. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






48. 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.






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






50. The logical structure on disk that allows the operating system to save and retrieve files. Examples of file systems are FAT and NTFS. Both of these file system have different versions - such as FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - and NTFS 4.0 and NTFS 5.0.