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Comptia A + Certification

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.






4. An LCD display that accepts a digital signal. Early LCD displays accepted an analog signal and converted it to digital internally.






5. A parallel port mode in which the signals can be transmitted in both directions between the PC and parallel devices connected to the computer.






6. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.






7. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.






8. Aka automated system recovery.






9. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






10. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600






11. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.






12. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.






13. A perpetrator of malicious software attacks against computers and networks. Also called a cracker.






14. A circuit on a motherboard through which incoming power passes. Several voltage regulators maintain a steady voltage as demand goes up and down - with one or more voltage regulators for the various voltages required (5 volts - 12 volts - 3.3 volts -






15. Aka RAID 5.






16. A plug designed for testing a specific port type (e.g. - serial - parallel - or USB). The plug does not connect to a cable but reroutes the sending pins to the receiving pins. Using special software on the computer - a loopback test is performed in w






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






18. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






19. Aka ATA Packet Interface.






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






21. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.






22. 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.






23. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






24. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






25. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.






26. Aka alternating current.






27. Aka Advanced Power Management.






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






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






30. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






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






32. A file system in which one of the basic structures is a table used for allocating space. This table is called the file allocation table (FAT).






33. Aka serial ATA.






34. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






35. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






36. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






37. A connection point on a device or computer - sometimes called a socket.






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






39. 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 measures 10.5 mm thick.






40. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






41. A virus that is self-replicating.






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






43. 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.






44. A program installed and activated on a computer without the user's knowledge or permission. At the least - the intent is mischief - but most often the intent is to cause damage.






45. An improved version of WPA that does not support older network cards and offers both secure authentication and data encryption. It uses EAP for a variety of authentication methods






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






47. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.






48. 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.






49. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






50. In the FAT file system - the top-level directory in which the operating system stores information about files - including a reference to the FAT table so it knows where to find the file's contents on disk. The NTFS file system also has a root - or to