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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Any power supply that provides high voltage - such as those in laser printers and CRTs.






2. A command-line command - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - which provides statistical information about the TCP/IP protocols and network connections involving your computer - depending on the switches you use when you enter the command.






3. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






4. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






5. 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.






6. Aka wireless access point.






7. 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.






8. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.






9. A type of DIMM memory module used in laptops.






10. Aka adapter card.






11. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






12. A group of features in the system BIOS - the chipset - the operating system - device drivers - and the individual components that enable efficient use of power in a computer.






13. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






14. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.






15. 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.






16. Aka paging file.






17. A 25-pin D-shell connector.






18. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.






19. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






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






21. A user interface that takes advantage of the video system's graphics capabilities for manipulated graphic elements that represent objects and tasks.






22. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






23. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






24. 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.






25. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.






26. Signals broadcast through the air.






27. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






28. The utility to use when doing a single data and settings transfer to a new Windows Vista computer from one running Windows XP or Windows Vista.






29. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






30. Aka v-hold.






31. Aka secure socket layer.






32. A portable computer small enough to fit in your hand - also referred to as a "palmtop" computer. Because it is so small - a PDA does not have the functionality of a laptop or desktop computer. In other words - a typical PDA allows you to perform only






33. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






34. Aka FAT file system.






35. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.






36. Aka lit pixel.






37. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.






38. In the laser printer - the heated rollers that fuse the toner to the paper.






39. A device that in its traditional configuration as a local KVM switch connects a single keyboard - video display - and mouse to two or more computer systems - allowing the user to switch control from one computer to another.






40. The Windows Vista and Windows 7 tool for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






41. The generic term for a pointing stick.






42. Aka antistatic mat.






43. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






44. A Windows folder that contains numerous applets you can use to adjust the configuration of many different aspects of the OS.






45. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have






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






47. Aka floating-point unit.






48. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






49. A network name used to identify a wireless network. Consisting of up to 32 characters - the SSID travels with the messages on the wireless network. All of the wireless devices on a WLAN must use the same SSID in order to communicate.






50. A chip that works with a serial port - converting outgoing data from parallel to serial and incoming data from serial to parallel.