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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






2. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






3. 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.






4. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy






5. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640






6. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.






7. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






8. The read-only DVD discs sold at retail stores - containing video or software and having a maximum capacity of 15.9 GB of data. This term also applies to the drives that can only read DVDs.






9. 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.






10. A small cassette containing an ink reservoir used to provide the medium for certain printers. An ink cartridge will only fit a certain model printer.






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






12. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






13. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.






14. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard - promoted by Toshiba - that was defeated by the Blu-ray Disc standard as the widely accepted high-definition standard.






15. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.






16. On a motherboard - the type and location of components - as well as the size of the board itself.






17. Aka World Wide Web.






18. A dedicated computer that stores data and provides print services or other capabilities to network clients.






19. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






20. 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.






21. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.






22. Aka boot record.






23. 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.






24. A straight - round connector used to connect fiber-optic cabling to a network device. It has a twist-type coupling.






25. Aka hacker.






26. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet. TLS succeeded SSL.






27. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






28. 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.






29. A type of printer that uses a matrix of pins striking paper through an ink ribbon to create dots on the paper - forming alphanumeric characters and graphic images.






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






31. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






32. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Synchronous graphics random access memory is a type of RAM used on video adapters.






36. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.






37. 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






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






39. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.






40. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






41. Aka direct current.






42. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.






43. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.






44. Aka single inline memory module.






45. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.






46. A RAID array in which every time data is written to disk - a portion (block) is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across the member disks. RAID 0 uses the total disk space in the array for storage - without protecting the dat






47. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






48. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






49. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






50. A power-usage level.