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Comptia A + Certification

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1. BIOS that can be electronically upgraded.






2. A set of behaviors including active listening and active speaking that shows you are fully engaged in the conversation and encourages the other person to also communicate in a positive manner.






3. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.






4. A power-usage level.






5. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






6. The use of words - often technical and uncommon - that both parties understand in the same way.






7. A pointing device built into some laptop keyboards. It appears to be a very tiny joystick-type button that barely protrudes above the level of the keys.






8. Pertaining to a DVD drive or disc that can store data in a single layer of pits on each data side.






9. Aka single inline memory module.






10. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






11. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






12. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






13. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






14. A depressed area on an optical disc that is alternated with raised areas to be interpreted as data.






15. Aka virtual file allocation table.






16. Aka boot record.






17. Aka thumb drive.






18. A Windows service designed to allow a user to invite someone to help troubleshoot a problem.






19. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






20. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






21. Aka automated system recovery.






22. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is even.






23. Aka RAID 5.






24. A physical area where a Wi-Fi network connects to the Internet.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






30. A connection point on a device or computer - sometimes called a socket.






31. Unsolicited e-mail.






32. The bus within a CPU that connects the CPU to external components.






33. Aka hacker.






34. An early PC hard drive interface.






35. A device that converts digital signals from the broadband connection to voice for the analog phone and the analog voice signals to digital signals for the digital network.






36. A type of KVM switch that is controlled through a mechanical switch on the box.






37. A technical standards organization.






38. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






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






40. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






41. 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






42. 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.






43. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






44. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.






45. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






46. An organization that creates standards for laptop computer peripheral devices.






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






48. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






49. An address that a DHCP client will assign to itself after requesting an address and failing to receive one from a DHCP server. The address it will assign is in the 169.254 /16 network - which is the range of addresses from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.






50. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.