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1. Aka serial ATA.






2. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.






3. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.






4. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






5. Aka dynamic RAM.






6. A chip that works with a serial port - converting outgoing data from parallel to serial and incoming data from serial to parallel.






7. 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.






8. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






9. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






10. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.






11. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.






12. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.






13. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






14. 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.






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






16. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






17. A single-pin RCA phone jack for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and speakers.






18. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.






19. In computer networking - a network located between a private network and the Internet with a firewall on both sides. A DMZ contains servers offering services to users on the Internet and inside the protected private network.






20. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






21. The classic PC serial port that complies with the Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232) in its circuitry - cabling - and connector design - and transfers data one bit at a time.






22. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.






23. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.






24. One of many low-level instructions built into the control unit of a CPU. Also called a microprogram.






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






26. Aka thumb drive.






27. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






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






29. Microsoft's product activation program.






30. 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.






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






32. An assigned channel over which a device can send a signal to the processor to get its attention.






33. Aka IEEE 1394.






34. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.






35. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






36. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.






37. Introduced in Windows 2000 - a user interface for Windows administration tools that is flexible and configurable.






38. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






39. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.






40. 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 3.3 millimeters thick.






41. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






42. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.






43. A type of DSL service in which the download speed is higher than the upload speed.






44. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






45. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






46. The file system component in the FAT file system in which the OS creates a table that serves as a map of where files reside on disk. Also called the FAT table.






47. Aka PCIe.






48. Aka basic input/output system.






49. Aka external cache.






50. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.







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