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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






2. Small text files a Web browser saves on the local hard drive at the request of a Website. Cookies can contain information that will be used the next time the user connects to the Website.






3. Aka demilitarized zone.






4. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






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






6. In an IP packet - a value field that shows how many routers the packet can cross before being discarded.






7. Aka security auditing.






8. The settings within a registry key.






9. A utility in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - networks - and other objectives.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.






13. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b






14. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.






15. A scaled-down laptop in the ultra-portable category - designed for Internet access. Aka also ultra-portable and mini-notebook.






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






17. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






18. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






19. Aka optical character recognition.






20. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






21. A private internetwork.






22. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






23. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






24. Aka Media Access Control (MAC) address.






25. 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.






26. Aka thumb drive.






27. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.






28. 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.






29. Aka compact disc.






30. A number that identifies a device on a SCSI chain.






31. A generic reference to a PC's serial communications port - in which the x represents the port number.






32. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






33. 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.






34. A service on a laptop that configures a card after socket services has recognized it.






35. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object






36. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






37. 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






38. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize more than 4 GB of address space. Depending on the version - 64-bit Windows can address a maximum of from 8 to 192 GB.






39. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






40. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.






41. A term used by Microsoft for a peer-to-peer network in which each computer can be either a client or a server or both.






42. Aka solid-state storage.






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






44. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






45. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






46. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.






47. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.






48. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.






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






50. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.