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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






2. A file used by Windows for virtual memory. Also called the swap file. The actual filename in Windows is PAGEFILE.SYS.






3. A fraudulent method of obtaining personal and financial information through the use of pop-ups or e-mail messages that purport to be from a legitimate organization - such as a bank - credit card company - or retailer.






4. A component that you can install into a system onsite - such as memory modules - heat sinks - and CMOS batteries.






5. Aka World Wide Web.






6. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.






7. Aka hacker.






8. A device that converts digital signals from the broadband connection to voice for the analog phone and the analog voice signals to digital signals for the digital network.






9. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






10. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






11. A string of characters that a user enters - along with an identifier - such as a user name - in order to be authenticated.






12. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






13. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the printer's high-voltage power supply (HVPS) conducts electricity to the primary corona wire so it can pass the voltage on to the printer's electro-photosensitive drum.






14. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






15. A blanket term used for DVD discs regardless of the type of data they contain.






16. In reference to parallel ports - a mode in which the parallel device connected to the parallel port can receive data but cannot send data. CMOS settings (system settings) may refer to this mode as "Transfer only."






17. A feature of HDMI that prevents people from illegally copying HD DVDs. Aka also High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).






18. A primary partition that is marked for use by the system during startup. Windows operating systems can only be booted from an active partition.






19. Aka surge protector.






20. 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.






21. A shared folder on a distribution server containing the source files for a remote installation.






22. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






23. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.






24. A utility in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - networks - and other objectives.






25. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.






26. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.






27. A private internetwork.






28. An obsolete video standard introduced with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980s. VGA had a maximum resolution of 720






29. A connection over a wide area network.






30. An EIDE drive setting that has the system select the drive's role (master or slave) based on the drive's position on the cable. If the drive is on the end of the cable - it is the master drive - and if it is in the middle of the cable - it is the sla






31. Aka motherboard.






32. An operating system recovery tool introduced in Windows Me and improved in later versions of Windows. System Restore creates restore points - which are snapshots of Windows - its configuration - and all installed programs. If your computer has nonfat






33. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






34. An extension of the SATA standard for external SATA devices - with speeds triple that of USB 2.0.






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






36. 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.






37. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






38. A program downloaded to a computer without the user's consent. The user unwittingly initiates the download by some simple act - such as browsing to a Website or opening an e-mail message written in HTML. Or a user may initiate a drive-by download by






39. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






40. Aka American National Standards Institute.






41. The oldest of the Wi-Fi encryption standards. It uses 64- or 128-bit encryption that is easily broken. It does not encrypt the actual data in a packet - and it does not perform user authentication on a packet.






42. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






43. Aka network address translation.






44. 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.






45. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






46. A connector used to attach coaxial cables to computers and network equipment. Origin of the term may be "Bayonet-Neill-Concelman" or "British Naval Connector."






47. Aka Address Resolution Protocol.






48. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.






49. A square snap coupling for fiber-optic cable - about 2.5 mm wide - used for cable-to-cable connections or to connect cables to network devices. It latches with a push-pull action similar to audio and video jacks.






50. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.