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1. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






2. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.






3. Aka plain-old telephone service.






4. One of several groups that no user can create or modify. The membership of a special group is predefined - and it is available to you only when you assign permissions or rights. A few important special groups are Creator Owner - System - and Everyone






5. An action - such as the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key combination or the insertion of a smart card - that clears memory of certain types of viruses before a user logs on.






6. Aka Address Resolution Protocol.






7. Aka optical character recognition.






8. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.






9. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






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






11. The signal in a television transmission that contains the brightness of the image.






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






13. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.






14. A rectangular connector with a locking clip on one side and a number designation that refers to the size rather than the number of wires.






15. 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.






16. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






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






18. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






19. A word used to describe memory that cannot work without a steady supply of power.






20. Aka paging file.






21. Aka audio modem riser.






22. An organization that creates specifications for infrared wireless communication.






23. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.






24. Aka pin grid array.






25. 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.






26. A connector used to attach coaxial cables to computers and network equipment. Origin of the term may be "Bayonet-Neill-Concelman" or "British Naval Connector."






27. A device used to scan smart cards.






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






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






30. 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.






31. A tool for migrating user data and settings from one Windows computer to a computer running Windows XP.






32. A device installed at the end of a SCSI chain to absorb signals so they do not bounce back along the cable.






33. A video interface - also called Super Video - that transmits video using two signals






34. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.






35. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






36. Aka Advanced Technology.






37. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.






38. Aka Digital Light Processing.






39. Aka permanent virtual circuit.






40. A storage type in Windows that uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






41. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.






42. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






43. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






44. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






45. A type of KVM switch that is controlled through a mechanical switch on the box.






46. 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.






47. Aka read-only memory.






48. A firewall consisting of software that you can install on any computer - as opposed to the software built into a hardware firewall. Also called personal firewalls because they are designed to be installed on individual desktop computers.






49. 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






50. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.






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