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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo






2. A screen device for video output. Also called a monitor.






3. Aka local area network.






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






5. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.






6. An organization that created several PC standards - including the VGA connector.






7. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






8. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






9. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






10. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






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






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






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






14. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






15. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






16. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






17. In router configuration - a term that is used to describe traffic that is allowed - as in allowing traffic using a certain port number through the router.






18. A wireless data encryption standard based on the IEEE 802.11i security standard. It issues keys per-user and per-session and includes encryption key integrity checking. It uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).






19. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






20. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.






21. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






22. A large burst of electromagnetic energy - as from a nuclear explosion - that has the potential to damage communications and power lines within a large geographic area - depending on the size and location of the pulse.






23. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






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






25. A type of printer that transfers ink to paper by causing a print head to strike a printer ribbon containing ink against the paper.






26. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.






27. In a CPU - the component that is primarily responsible for directing all the activities of the computer and the interactions of its components.






28. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.






29. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






30. 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






31. Aka Fast Ethernet.






32. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.






33. Local area networking using radio waves - with the most common based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards (802.11a - 802.11b - 802.11g - and 802.11n).






34. 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 -






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






36. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.






37. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






38. A device used to scan smart cards.






39. 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.






40. A specialized type of memory used only with video adapters.






41. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






42. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






43. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






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






45. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






46. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






47. A Windows command prompt utility that uses the WFP (Windows 2000 and Windows XP) or WRP (Windows Vista and Windows 7) service to scan and verify the versions of all protected system files after you restart your computer.






48. Aka top-level domain.






49. A socket for a PGA CPU that has a retention lever as well as contacts to match the number of pins on the CPU. The lever is used to attach the CPU to the socket in a manner that does not require force to insert or to remove the CPU.






50. Device that stores digital data on magnetized media - such as floppy disks - the metal platters in hard disk drives - and magnetic tape media used in tape drives.