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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Two or more disks working together in one of the several RAID schemes.






2. An LCD technology based on thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. An active matrix display has a transistor at every pixel - which enables much quicker display changes than passive matrix displays and produces a display quality comparable to a CRT.






3. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






4. An obsolete memory module standard that was produced in 30-pin and 72-pin sizes. Thirty-pin SIMMs are 8-bit - and 72-pin SIMMs are 32-bit.






5. A measurement of the pressure of electrons - the electromotive force. It is calculated by the formula volts = watts / amps.






6. The sudden and uncontrolled movement of electricity from an object with a greater charge to one with a lesser charge. Also called static electricity.






7. An area on the top left of the Windows XP Start menu containing shortcuts to Windows Update and programs for browsing the Internet and using e-mail.






8. Aka Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.






9. Aka customer premises equipment.






10. 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.






11. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






12. A disc designed to store all types of data usable by a computer. This term also refers to the drives that read and write to these discs. There are various types of DVD drives and media.






13. A scaled-down laptop in the ultra-portable category - designed for Internet access. Aka also ultra-portable and mini-notebook.






14. Aka pointing stick.






15. Aka American National Standards Institute.






16. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






17. Aka RAID 5.






18. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






19. 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.






20. A file operation in which the file or folder remains in the source location - and a duplicate is created in the target (destination) location.






21. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






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






23. Erasable programmable read-only memory. A ROM chip that is erasable and reprogrammable through the use of specialized software.






24. The original digital discs created in 1995 for storing video.






25. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






26. A 4-pin connector that - in addition to a 20-pin connector - is part of motherboard power connector that follows the ATX 12V standard.






27. Aka Domain Name Service.






28. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk






29. Traditionally - this term only applied to the type of device described in the definition for analog modem. Now - it is also used for the digital devices in DSL and cable data communications.






30. Aka paging file.






31. In regard to Windows operating systems - a version of Windows that is designed to work with a certain manufacturer's equipment.






32. Aka Advanced Technology Attachment.






33. The fine copper lines that are the electronic circuits through which power - data - and control signals travel on a circuit board.






34. Small text files a Web browser saves on the local hard drive at the request of a Website. Cookies can contain information that will be used the next time the user connects to the Website.






35. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.






36. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






37. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






38. A small group of computers communicating wirelessly with one another without the use of a centralized wireless access point (WAP).






39. Aka Digital Light Processing.






40. 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.






41. Aka electronic KVM switch.






42. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.






43. A RAM module designed for subcompact and laptop computers. It is half the size of a SoDIMM module.






44. The role of the second EIDE drive on a PATA channel.






45. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






46. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






47. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.






48. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.






49. A connection over a wide area network.






50. Aka Address Resolution Protocol.