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1. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.






2. The bus within a CPU that connects the CPU to external components.






3. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






4. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






5. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






6. A standard for hard drives that attach to the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface.






7. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






8. The connecting point of a mounted drive to a folder on an NTFS volume.






9. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






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






11. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






12. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






13. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






14. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is odd.






15. Aka Fast Ethernet.






16. Describes the VGA mode color setting that - although it can produce around 16 million different colors - can only display up to 256 different colors at a time.






17. The file system component in the FAT file system in which the OS creates a table that serves as a map of where files reside on disk. Also called the FAT table.






18. The filename for the System Configuration Utility - which allows you to test various scenarios for Windows startup for troubleshooting purposes.






19. Aka digitizing tablet.






20. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays






21. Aka wireless access point.






22. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.






23. Encrypted data placed in a file to guard against tampering.






24. A method for supporting up to 8.3 GB capacity hard drives. Both the BIOS and hard drive system must use LBA.






25. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.






26. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






27. A subpackaging of a Windows revision that contains the core OS plus a special set of features that is offered as a separate product targeted to a certain type of end user.






28. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






29. In a low-profile PC case - a card that plugs into a motherboard to allow other cards to be inserted at a right angle to the riser card and parallel to the motherboard. Also - a single expansion card containing multiple functions - such as modem - sou






30. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






31. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.






32. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






33. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






34. Microsoft's product activation program.






35. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.






36. A technology for transferring serial data at high speeds. Also known as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






37. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






38. Aka Media Access Control (MAC) address.






39. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






40. Aka System Information.






41. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts






42. 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






43. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.






44. An arrangement of pins on a processor in which the pins are offset in a way that allows for a higher pin density than PGA.






45. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






46. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






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






48. A power supply and motherboard feature that allows software to turn off a computer rather than only using a physical switch.






49. Aka channel service unit.






50. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.







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