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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The worldwide network that carries traditional voice traffic.






2. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras.






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






4. Aka display.






5. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






6. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






7. A type of DIMM memory module used in laptops.






8. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






9. Aka accelerated graphics port.






10. 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).






11. An early PC hard drive interface.






12. A KVM switch that uses software and special keyboard commands to switch among controlled computers. Also called anactive KVM switch.






13. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






14. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






15. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






16. Aka direct current.






17. A circuit card in a PC that controls the output to the display device(s).






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






19. An address that a DHCP client will assign to itself after requesting an address and failing to receive one from a DHCP server. The address it will assign is in the 169.254 /16 network - which is the range of addresses from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.






20. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






21. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.






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






23. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






24. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






25. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






26. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.






27. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.






28. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






29. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






30. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






31. On a motherboard - the type and location of components - as well as the size of the board itself.






32. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






33. The EXPLORER.EXE program. This program supports the entire Windows GUI. If EXPLORER.EXE is called up from inside the GUI - it opens a window for browsing your local disks and files.






34. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






35. An adapter card used to run a special diagnostic test on a computer as it is powering up. These tests usually go beyond those performed by the system BIOS-based POST.






36. The hardware architecture - including the CPU - BIOS - and chipset.






37. The act of writing to two disk drives at the same time - creating identical drives.






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






39. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.






40. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






41. Aka Video Electronics Standards Organization.






42. In a computer - pathways that power - data - and control signals travel from one component to another within the system.






43. In Windows - an Advanced Option that is only available in Windows Servers in the role of domain controllers - although it appears on the menu in non-domain controllers.






44. Aka Digital Light Processing.






45. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.






49. Pertaining to a DVD drive and disc that can store data in two pitted layers on each data side - with each layer having a different reflectivity index.






50. A registry key that exists within another key.