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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. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).
Microsoft Product Activation (MPA)
auditing
keystroke logger
LVDS
2. A Windows sleep mode that uses hard drive space to save all the programs and data that are in memory at the time you choose this mode. The computer then completely shuts down and requires no power while it is hibernating.
portable computer
central processing unit (CPU)
hibernate
ICMP
3. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an
process
cookies
World Wide Web
high-voltage power supply (HVPS)
4. Aka floating-point unit.
InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
SLD
FPU
IEEE 1394
5. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data
PPP
virtual private network (VPN)
TCP/IP
basic storage
6. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.
bit width
HD-DVD
IP router
dot matrix printer
7. Any type of computer that you can easily transport and that contains an all-in-one component layout.
ANSI
SXGA
SIMM
portable computer
8. 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.
multi-GPU solution
T-carrier system
repeater
Automatic Private IP Address (APIPA)
9. 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.
Southbridge
h-hold
plug and play (PnP)
IP packet filtering
10. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.
drive image
update
POTS
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
11. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.
radio frequency (RF)
activation
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
parts grabber
12. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.
ALU
PS/2
firmware
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
13. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to bring up a small volume control panel on the display. Using the up (?) or right (?) arrow key - the volume will increase. To decrease the volume - press the FN key and the SPEAKER VOLUME key along
laser beam
DVI
Speaker Volume Key
electro-photosensitive drum
14. Aka adapter card.
UDF
EPROM
expansion card
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
15. 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.
hub
molex connector
DDR RAM
authentication factor
16. 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
System Information (MSINFO32.EXE)
terminal
hot swapping
watts
17. A slide switch on the exterior of a PC power supply used to switch between two input voltages.
twisted-pair cable
IEC-320 connector
metropolitan area network (MAN)
DVD-10
18. The chunks into which the TCP protocol packages data. In addition to the data - each datagram contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the chunks of data into the original messag
datagram
smart phone
UXGA
active speaking
19. Aka thumb drive.
wide area network (WAN)
floppy disk drive
flash drive
system board
20. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.
slave drive
double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM
spyware
audio modem riser (AMR)
21. Aka internal cache memory.
mirroring
Level 1 (L1) cache
microprogram
system file
22. Aka MSCONFIG.
System File Checker (SFC)
key fob
aspect ratio
System Configuration Utility
23. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.
authentication factor
System Information (MSINFO32.EXE)
high-voltage power supply (HVPS)
Advanced Technology eXtended (ATX)
24. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
direct current (DC)
software firewall
BTX
25. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.
exception
DVD-9
S/PDIF
processor board
26. Aka solid-state storage.
Northbridge
Windows Explorer
ATAPI
solid-state drive (SSD)
27. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
IEEE 1394a
digital video discs
material safety data sheet (MSDS)
WRAM
28. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.
NTLDR
systray
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
ATA
29. In a computer - pathways that power - data - and control signals travel from one component to another within the system.
bus
network interface card (NIC)
InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
modding
30. A CPU containing four CPU cores.
power-on self-test (POST)
Type I
Safe Mode With Networking
quad-core CPU
31. Aka hacker.
Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM)
cracker
thermal wax transfer printer
ANSI
32. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.
swap file
DVD-ROM drive
Bluetooth
L1 cache
33. 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.
ATX power supply
DVD-18
secure attention sequence (SAS)
bus
34. 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).
DVD-5
dial-up modem
Enable Boot Logging
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
35. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.
Advanced Technology (AT)
NSLOOKUP
volume
heat sink
36. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to once - but data cannot be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.
C
molex connector
DVD-R
RF
37. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
DDR
drive-by download
System Monitor
transport layer security (TLS)
38. A computer (or dedicated device) that sits between a private network and an untrusted network and examines all traffic in and out of the network it is protecting. It will block any traffic it recognizes as a potential threat - using a variety of tech
HDD
firewall
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Enable VGA Mode
39. A technology that makes 802.11n speeds possible - using multiple antennas to send and receive digital data in simultaneous radio streams that increases performance.
transport layer security (TLS)
dot matrix printer
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
audio modem riser (AMR)
40. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk
Foreign
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
BIOS
chrominance
41. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.
power supply tester
CardBus
expansion card
Enable Low Resolution Video
42. A feature of HDMI that prevents people from illegally copying HD DVDs. Aka also High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).
adware
hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
simultaneous multithreading (SMT)
43. The "activity" status light on a NIC that indicates data is being transmitted.
hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
terminating resistor
local user account
ACT
44. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
riser card
DVD-18
45. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.
LVDS
hot swapping
subtree
Start Bar
46. The black box that appears around an image - such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
h-hold
driver signing
Advanced Technology (AT)
letterbox
47. The top-level folder or directory in the file structure. This appears the same - regardless of the underlying file system.
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
root folder
pin grid array (PGA)
IEEE 1394c-2006
48. A drive that can be safely installed and removed while a computer is up and running without damaging the data stored on the drive.
LPT2
analog LCD display
fixed input power supply
hot-swappable drive
49. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.
BNC
ACT
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS)
50. The settings within a registry key.
value entry
RAMBUS Inline Memory Module (RIMM)
EIDE
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)