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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A program that causes a modem to dial phone numbers surreptitiously.






2. Aka surge protector.






3. A category of adapter card that accepts and records video signals to a PC's hard drive. A TV tuner card is a type of capture card.






4. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






5. A 20- or 24- pin connector that supplies power from a PC's power supply to the motherboard.






6. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






7. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






8. Aka serial ATA.






9. The top-level folder or directory in the file structure. This appears the same - regardless of the underlying file system.






10. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.






11. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 5.0 millimeters thick.






12. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.






13. Aka dynamic RAM.






14. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.






15. 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.






16. A PCMCIA card standard that comes in two interfaces: PCIe and USB 2.0.






17. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600






18. A utility for migrating data from many computers - or if you need to perform what Microsoft calls a "wipe-and-load migration" from and to the same computer. Available in Windows XP - Vista - and Windows 7.






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






20. A method of memory error-checking that is more sophisticated than parity checking. Like parity checking - it adds an extra bit per byte. In addition - software in the system memory controller uses an algorithm to both detect and correct errors.






21. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.






22. Aka Static RAM.






23. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






24. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






25. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






26. The conversion of data into a special format that cannot be read by anyone unless they have a software key to convert it back into its usable form.






27. Aka input/output.






28. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






29. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






30. A specialized type of memory used only with video adapters.






31. Aka RAID 5.






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






33. Aka Video Electronics Standards Organization.






34. A type of solid-state storage that is portable - about the size of a flattened thumb - and usually has a USB interface. Also called a flash drive or jump drive.






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






36. Aka secure socket layer.






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






39. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






40. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.






41. An automated software installation that does not require a person be present to respond to prompts for information.






42. Aka lit pixel.






43. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






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






45. In Windows - an Advanced Option that is only available in Windows Servers in the role of domain controllers - although it appears on the menu in non-domain controllers.






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






47. 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






48. Aka alternating current.






49. A TCP/IP protocol developed as a solution to the dwindling number of IP addresses on the Internet and that also serves to hide IP addresses on a private network from the Internet.






50. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.