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Comptia A + Certification
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.
SONET
backup media
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
DLT
2. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.
dotted decimal notation
spindle
RDRAM
Level 2 (L2) cache
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.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
FPU
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
mirroring
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
system bus
SCSI host adapter
value entry
primary partition
5. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640
ALU
Voice over IP (VoIP)
VGA Mode
multiplexing
6. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.
active speaking
digitizing tablet
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
slot cover
7. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.
control unit
thermal compound
inverter
toner cartridge
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.
DVD-ROM
unattended installation
AT
DDoS Attack
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.
HTML
PCI
solid-state storage
daughter card
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.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
ink cartridge
low-voltage differential (LVD)
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
11. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.
IPCONFIG
hidden attribute
docking station
multimeter
12. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
DHCP Server
IEEE
CrossFire
13. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.
BDD Workbench
WAN connection
VRAM
FAT32
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.
SORIMM
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
HD-DVD
professionalism
15. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.
server
WPA
DHCP Server
Emergency Repair Process
16. On a motherboard - the type and location of components - as well as the size of the board itself.
RFI
mainboard
ECC
form factor
17. Aka World Wide Web.
cluster
WWW
OCR
motherboard
18. A dedicated computer that stores data and provides print services or other capabilities to network clients.
LPT
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
server
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
19. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.
DDR1
firmware
FAT
TV tuner card
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.
version
port replicator
IDE
NIC
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.
local remote KVM switch
lit pixel
flashing
Ethernet
22. Aka boot record.
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)
surge suppressor
boot sector
DVD
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.
magnetic mass storage
64-bit
DVD-RW
8-bit high color
24. A straight - round connector used to connect fiber-optic cabling to a network device. It has a twist-type coupling.
straight-tip (ST) connector
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
watts
soft power
25. Aka hacker.
heat sink
WAP
cracker
swap file
26. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet. TLS succeeded SSL.
component video
protocol
active speaking
transport layer security (TLS)
27. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
attended installation
FTP
portable computer
simultaneous multithreading (SMT)
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.
super video graphics array (SVGA)
Integrated Access Device (IAD)
amperes (amps)
Internet service provider (ISP)
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.
Rambus Dynamic RAM (RDRAM)
RFI
clock speed
dot matrix printer
30. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).
metropolitan area network (MAN)
DVD-R
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
pit
31. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.
troubleshooting
TrackPoint
Enable VGA Mode
DNS
32. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.
single-layer (SL)
flash ROM
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
digitizer
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.
liquid crystal display (LCD)
BitLocker drive encryption
Rambus Dynamic RAM (RDRAM)
personal firewall
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.
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
pointing stick
mini-audio connector
horizontal position
35. Synchronous graphics random access memory is a type of RAM used on video adapters.
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
file signature verification
SGRAM
Spam over Instant Messaging (spim)
36. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.
PGA2
customer premises equipment (CPE)
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
direct memory access (DMA) channel
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
toner
DDR2 SDRAM
permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
nonvolatile memory
38. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.
SCSI controller
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
basic input/output system (BIOS)
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
39. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.
DLT
DDR1
sector translation
jump drive
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
Northbridge
keystroke logger
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
status light indicator
41. Aka direct current.
DC
extension magnet
Wi-Fi
basic storage
42. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.
process ID
SSL
intranet
BTX
43. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.
antistatic mat
port triggering
system attribute
LPT2
44. Aka single inline memory module.
CD-R (CD-Record)
SIMM
exception
miniconnector
45. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
CRT
Voice over IP (VoIP)
power state
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
DDR RAM
cable select
wide area network (WAN)
RAID 0
47. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).
molex connector
RAID 1
System Monitor
LVDS
48. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.
ARP
port replicator
Tablet PC
ISP
49. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).
DIMM
POST card
root key
basic disk
50. A power-usage level.
power state
ASR
AT
hard disk drive