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1. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






2. In the laser printer - the heated rollers that fuse the toner to the paper.






3. The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from one point to another.






4. A magnetic storage device that stores data on metal platters that have a coating that holds data in the form of changes to small magnetic particles in the coating. Also called HDD.






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






6. Aka RAID 5.






7. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th






8. A metal plate behind the front of a CRT monitor that focuses the electron beams from the gun.






9. Aka musical instrument digital interface.






10. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






11. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






12. An obsolete video standard introduced with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980s. VGA had a maximum resolution of 720






13. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






14. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






15. Aka uniqueness database file.






16. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






17. A communications system - owned and operated by the telephone companies - that multiplexes voice and data signals onto digital transmission line.






18. Aka Small Outline RIMM.






19. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






20. A server containing source files for installing software onto client computers. The shared folder containing these files is a software distribution point.






21. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






22. 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.






23. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






24. Aka Advanced Technology.






25. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






26. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






27. An Intel standard for motherboards targeted to the low-end consumer market that includes built-in components - while saving space and fitting into a smaller case.






28. A virus that is self-replicating.






29. The act of electronically upgrading BIOS.






30. A computer (or dedicated device) that sits between a private network and an untrusted network and examines all traffic in and out of the network it is protecting. It will block any traffic it recognizes as a potential threat - using a variety of tech






31. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.






32. Device that stores digital data on magnetized media - such as floppy disks - the metal platters in hard disk drives - and magnetic tape media used in tape drives.






33. 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






34. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.






35. Any power supply that provides high voltage - such as those in laser printers and CRTs.






36. In networking - this is a set of rules for using network hardware and software. In most discussions about networks - this term is assigned to certain network software components.






37. Aka Advanced Technology Attachment.






38. A software fix for a single problem.






39. A key on a laptop that is pressed along with the FN key to change display modes so the output will be only to the laptop's display - only to an external display - or simultaneously to both displays. The DISPLAY MODE key is normally a function key - s






40. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






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






42. A password that meets certain criteria in order to be difficult to crack. One definition of a strong password is one that contains at least eight characters - includes a combination of letters - numbers - and other symbols ( _ - - - $ - and so on) an






43. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.






44. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






45. One or more chips designed to work closely with the CPU. Two parts of this chipset are the Northbridge and the Southbridge.






46. A bundle of patches or updates released periodically by a software publisher.






47. A type of printer that uses one of several technologies to apply wet ink to paper to create text or graphic printouts. The two most popular inkjet printer models are the InkJet - developed by Hewlett-Packard - and the Bubble Jet - developed by Canon.






48. Aka taskbar.






49. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






50. Aka time to live.