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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. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).
Return To OS Choices menu
active speaking
EFS
vertical refresh rate
2. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have
WUXGA
flat panel display (FPD)
DDR3 SDRAM
system tray
3. Aka central processing unit.
CPU
modding
answer file
single-sided (SS) DVD
4. The protocol used by DHCP servers and clients. A DHCP server allocates IP addresses within the scope of addresses configured on the server by an administrator. DHCP clients request IP addresses and other IP configuration settings from DHCP Servers.
read/write head
stand-alone computer
thermal wax transfer printer
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
5. Aka thumb drive.
flash drive
Internet service provider (ISP)
NTLDR
accelerated graphics port (AGP)
6. Pertaining to a DVD drive and disc that can store data in two pitted layers on each data side - with each layer having a different reflectivity index.
fusing
dual layer (DL)
transferring
auditing
7. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
drive lock password
DMA controller
Enable VGA Mode
8. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.
alternating current
mounted drive
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
RAID controller
9. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo
AC adapter
war driving
wireless access point (WAP)
Advanced Technology eXtended (ATX)
10. Aka Domain Name Service.
dual-core CPU
striping with interleave parity
DNS
access control
11. A new level of an operating system with major changes to the core components.
version
Display Brightness Key
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
jump drive
12. A CPU containing four CPU cores.
quad-core CPU
Quick Launch bar
parity
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)
13. The oldest of the Wi-Fi encryption standards. It uses 64- or 128-bit encryption that is easily broken. It does not encrypt the actual data in a packet - and it does not perform user authentication on a packet.
MAC
process
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
ASR
14. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.
emergency repair disk (ERD)
InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
POST
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
15. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.
NIC
DVD-Video
SONET
floppy disk
16. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.
industry standard architecture (ISA)
RAID controller
floppy disk drive
802.11b
17. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.
universal data format (UDF)
Task Scheduler
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
clock speed
18. A drive on a computer that can play music CDs and read data CDs - but cannot write to CDs.
BitLocker drive encryption
Bluetooth
CD-ROM drive
authentication
19. Aka power-on self-test.
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
POST
Bubble Jet
memory
20. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.
boot sequence
DVD-9
broadband WAN
Display Mode Key
21. Aka Ethernet.
Advanced Technology (AT)
digital video interface (DVI)
10Base-T
pointing stick
22. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
phishing
registry key
S/PDIF
HTTP
23. 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.
inverter
system area
DDR2
systray
24. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.
EPP
CSU
double-sided (DS) DVD
firmware
25. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.
WEP
swap file
Rambus Dynamic RAM (RDRAM)
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
26. Aka network address translation.
NAT
hard disk drive
dialer
Level 3 (L3) cache
27. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays
musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
logical block address (LBA)
port triggering
Safe Mode
28. A circuit on a motherboard through which incoming power passes. Several voltage regulators maintain a steady voltage as demand goes up and down - with one or more voltage regulators for the various voltages required (5 volts - 12 volts - 3.3 volts -
DVD-ROM drive
Fn key
voltage regulator module (VRM)
1000Base-T
29. In the FAT file system - the top-level directory in which the operating system stores information about files - including a reference to the FAT table so it knows where to find the file's contents on disk. The NTFS file system also has a root - or to
root directory
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
display resolution
IEEE 1394c-2006
30. A type of KVM switch that is controlled through a mechanical switch on the box.
inactive KVM switch
COMx
thermal compound
media bay
31. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.
system requirements
virtual file allocation table (VFAT)
infrastructure mode
VRAM
32. A device that stores a large amount of information - even when it is powered off.
mass storage device
registry
ultra-portable
rootkit
33. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th
Web browser
terminal
ANSI
backup media
34. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.
LVDS
striping with distributed parity
solid ink
inkjet
35. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.
soft power
P412V
track point
RFI
36. A Windows service that allows a user to connect remotely to a computer and run the Windows desktop on the remote computer - but have the same access as if logged on to the computer and its local network.
DVI-A
Remote Desktop
ECP
SORIMM
37. One of the two prevailing CPU manufacturers.
RJ-45
Intel Corporation
liquid crystal display (LCD)
User Account Control (UAC)
38. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.
thread
lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery
IMAP
WINS Server
39. Aka optical character recognition.
flash ROM
OCR
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
secure attention sequence (SAS)
40. A table on each file and folder in the NTFS file system that contains one or more access control entries.
laser beam
asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL)
access control list (ACL)
extending extractor
41. A cooling fan located on a CPU.
power state
CPU fan
share
Video Electronics Standards Organization (VESA)
42. A printer that creates printed output line by line.
line printer
digital LCD display
SATA
virtual circuit (VC)
43. Aka floating-point unit.
MIDI
FPU
switching mode power supply
CNR
44. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.
liquid cooling system
Advanced Technology (AT)
32-bit
display
45. A communications system - owned and operated by the telephone companies - that multiplexes voice and data signals onto digital transmission line.
T-carrier system
NETSTAT
bus
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
46. A service implemented on Windows Servers that hides the complexity of the network from end users in that it makes files that are distributed across multiple servers appear as if they are in one place.
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
domain
pit
Distributed File System (DFS)
47. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.
digital subscriber line (DSL)
T1
logical block address (LBA)
SONET
48. Fiber-optic cable in which multiple light waves can pass simultaneously. Usually larger in diameter than single-mode fiber; and each wave uses a certain portion of the fiber cable for transmission.
multimode fiber (MMF)
RAM
P1 power connector
ANSI
49. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.
lit pixel
expansion card
driver signing
partition type
50. A wireless mode requiring a wireless access point (WAP).
erasure lamp
infrastructure mode
fusing lamp
BNC