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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






3. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.






4. A fiber-optic connector that resembles an RJ-45 network connector and is less expensive and easier to work with than ST or SC connectors.






5. Aka digital linear tape.






6. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






7. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






8. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






9. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.






10. A cooling fan located on a CPU.






11. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts






12. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






13. A program used to discover a password.






14. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice that restores a group of registry keys containing system settings such as services and drivers. These are the last settings that worked - and you have only a narrow window of opportunity to use Last Known Good






15. Aka Domain Name Service.






16. Aka digitizing tablet.






17. In power supplies - the amount of wattage the power supply can handle.






18. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet. TLS succeeded SSL.






19. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






20. 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.






21. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.






22. Aka software firewall.






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






24. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






25. A CPU containing four CPU cores.






26. Aka read-only memory.






27. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






28. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association whose members include Sony - 20th Century Fox - Dell - Hewlett-Packard - and many other industry leaders.






29. 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.






30. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






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






32. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






33. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan






34. Aka Digital Light Processing.






35. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.






36. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






37. An early PC hard drive interface.






38. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






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






40. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






41. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






42. Aka secure socket layer.






43. An Advanced Options menu choice that creates a log of the Windows startup in a file named NTBTLOG.TXT and saved in thesystemroot folder (normally C:Windows).






44. A network device that is used to extend the range of a network by taking the signals received on a port from one network and regenerating (repeating) those signals to another port to transmit them on a second network.






45. A wireless network standard that uses the 5 GHz band.






46. The "activity" status light on a NIC that indicates data is being transmitted.






47. A riser card that is similar to audio modem riser (AMR) except that it is plug and play-compatible and supports LANs in addition to audio - modem - and sound.






48. A private internetwork.






49. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






50. A type of display device that includes a touch-sensitive face to accept input from the user.