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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






3. Memory chips that use a special Rambus channel that has a data transfer rate of 800 MHz. A double channel width results in a 1.6 GHz data transfer. RDRAM sticks use special RIMM slots.






4. Aka pin grid array.






5. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.






6. 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






7. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






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






9. Aka nickel-cadmium.






10. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






11. 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.






12. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






13. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






14. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the Intel 32-bit x86 specification. Also referred to as 32-bit.






15. 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 odd.






16. Aka video RAM.






17. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."






18. Aka Advanced Power Management.






19. A type of display device that includes a touch-sensitive face to accept input from the user.






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






21. An Advanced Options menu choice that creates a log of the Windows startup in a file named NTBTLOG.TXT and saved in thesystemroot folder (normally C:Windows).






22. A standards organization - of which the T10 SCSI committee maintains the SCSI standard.






23. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






24. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






25. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






26. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






27. An LCD display characteristic that indicates the amount of time in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a single pixel to go from the active to the inactive state and back again.






28. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.






29. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






30. A communication service provided over a telecommunications network or computer network. A VC logically resembles a circuit while passing over a complex routed or switched network - such as the phone company's frame relay network.






31. Aka emergency repair disk.






32. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






33. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






34. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.






35. 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.






36. A new level of an operating system with major changes to the core components.






37. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






38. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.






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






40. A type of printer that uses a film coated with colored wax that melts onto paper. These printers are similar to dye-sublimation printers but differ in two major ways: the film contains wax rather than dye - and these printers do not require special p






41. Aka uniqueness database file.






42. To renew a product activation - required when the activation program discovers significant changes in a computer or the activated product has been installed on a second computer.






43. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






44. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






45. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.






46. The early standard developed by PCMCIA for credit-card-sized devices used in laptops.






47. A user interface that takes advantage of the video system's graphics capabilities for manipulated graphic elements that represent objects and tasks.






48. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






49. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.






50. An internal bus in a CPU that connects it to memory and video.