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Comptia A + Certification
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The hardware architecture - including the CPU - BIOS - and chipset.
User State Migration Tool (USMT)
computer platform
mass storage device
Start menu
2. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
thread of execution
media bay
capture card
3. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.
processor
DIN connector
horizontal position
LPT
4. A pixel that is permanently turned on - causing the pixel to show constantly as red - green - or blue. Also called a stuck pixel.
analog modem
voltage regulator module (VRM)
lit pixel
musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
5. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.
DVD-18
multi-GPU solution
POTS
Internet service provider (ISP)
6. Aka peripheral component interconnect.
PCI
VESA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
thermal paste
7. Aka Digital Light Processing.
ACPI
DLP
cluster
RAID array
8. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.
I/O address
Windows XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
archive attribute
processor
9. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.
network client
WEP
IEEE 1394b
basic disk
10. A term used by Microsoft for a peer-to-peer network in which each computer can be either a client or a server or both.
PGA
workgroup
SORIMM
capacity
11. A PCMCIA card standard that comes in two interfaces: PCIe and USB 2.0.
read-only memory (ROM)
display
Internet Explorer (IE)
ExpressCard
12. Aka expansion bus.
power supply
PPP
P1 power connector
system bus
13. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.
spyware
Ethernet
floating-point unit (FPU)
Integrated Access Device (IAD)
14. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.
Device Manager
virus
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
router
15. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.
front side bus (FSB)
AC adapter
local user account
VFAT
16. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.
WEP
motherboard
register
process ID
17. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
degaussing
dynamic storage
DisplayPort
18. Aka surge protector.
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)
DVI-A
Tablet PC
surge suppressor
19. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.
jumper
heat sink
value entry
Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
20. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.
network operating system (NOS)
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
register
card services
21. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.
Infrared (IR)
x86-64
nonvolatile memory
thermal wax transfer printer
22. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.
accessory bay
Media Access Control (MAC) address
FAT16
power supply tester
23. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.
SSL
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
CD-R (CD-Record)
thermal compound
24. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.
DVD-Video
expansion card
Debugging Mode
transfer corona wire
25. The moving of data from one storage device to another.
HDD
read-only memory (ROM)
data migration
system attribute
26. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.
intranet
IPCONFIG
system requirements
jargon
27. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.
PING
DVI-A
unidirectional mode
root folder
28. RAM that doubles the rate of speed at which a standard SDRAM can process data. Also called DDR and DDR1. A stick of DDR1 SDRAM has 184 pins.
SORIMM
liquid cooling system
double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM
COMx
29. In a CPU - special memory that resides within the CPU's core and is used to temporarily store instructions and data in order to increase the processing speed. Also called L1 cache.
internal cache memory
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
local user account
Windows Update Website
30. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
time to live (TTL)
IEEE 1394a
RDRAM
odd parity
31. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters
ATA
passive matrix display
memory
fixed input power supply
32. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.
direct current (DC)
partition type
digitizing tablet
password cracker
33. A service implemented on Windows Servers that hides the complexity of the network from end users in that it makes files that are distributed across multiple servers appear as if they are in one place.
Distributed File System (DFS)
soft power
system file
basic input/output system (BIOS)
34. 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.
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
Extended Video Graphics Array (EVGA)
secure attention sequence (SAS)
Advanced Communications Riser (ACR)
35. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.
striping with distributed parity
DVD-9
Speaker On/Off key
I/O address
36. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.
flash memory
password
FTP
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
37. A joke program that produces strange behavior - such as screen distortions - erratic cursor behavior - or strange icons to appear on the screen.
DVI-D
Windows Explorer
flash memory
prank program
38. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.
v-hold
smart phone
SSL
client/server-based network
39. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.
mainboard
auto-switching power supply
EPROM
fusing lamp
40. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo
Static RAM (SRAM)
paging file
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
volts
41. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy
logical block address (LBA)
strong password
internal cache memory
primary partition
42. Aka Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
single-layer (SL)
fusing
ACPI
SCSI ID
43. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
CrossFire
FTP
register
land
44. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object
low-voltage differential (LVD)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
SVGA
shortcut
45. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.
single-sided (SS) DVD
system board
memory address
x86-64
46. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.
DVD-ROM drive
VFAT
case fan
DDR3
47. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.
pop-up blocker
overclocking
sidebar
device driver
48. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.
PCI Express
CSU
Northbridge
distribution share
49. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.
router
FPM
mounted drive
access control entry (ACE)
50. One or more lights (usually LEDs) on a device that indicate the device's operational status through the color of the light - by blinking or remaining steady or both.
status light indicator
surge protector
LCD
Secure Digital (SD) Card