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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.






2. Aka Scalable Link Interface.






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






4. Also called mirroring - this RAID array type provides fault tolerance because all the data is written identically to the two drives in the mirrored set.






5. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






6. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






7. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.






8. In the FAT file system - the top-level directory in which the operating system stores information about files - including a reference to the FAT table so it knows where to find the file's contents on disk. The NTFS file system also has a root - or to






9. Aka capture card.






10. Aka pin grid array.






11. 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.






12. Aka customer premises equipment.






13. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






14. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.






15. Aka central processing unit.






16. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






17. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.






18. Aka Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).






19. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.






20. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th






21. A database of all configuration settings in Windows.






22. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






23. The wireless nodes (including the WAP) communicating together in infrastructure mode.






24. Aka hard disk drive.






25. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






26. A server containing source files for installing software onto client computers. The shared folder containing these files is a software distribution point.






27. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.






28. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.






29. Aka single inline memory module.






30. A specialized type of scanner that reads bar codes - which are patterns of bars of varying widths printed on labels or directly on items. The bar pattern is converted into a numeric code that is transmitted to a computer as data.






31. Aka SCSI host adapter.






32. A Windows service designed to allow a user to invite someone to help troubleshoot a problem.






33. A type of printer that uses a matrix of pins striking paper through an ink ribbon to create dots on the paper - forming alphanumeric characters and graphic images.






34. 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.






35. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.






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






37. An adapter used to connect a computer or other device to a network medium.






38. A riser card that is similar to audio modem riser (AMR) except that it is plug and play-compatible and supports LANs in addition to audio - modem - and sound.






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






40. Slang for motherboard.






41. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






42. 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.






43. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.






44. A single-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 4.7 GB of data - or over two hours of video.






45. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.






46. A standardized document that contains general information - ingredients - and fire and explosion warnings as well as health - disposal - and safe transportation information about a particular product. Any manufacturer that sells a potentially hazardo






47. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.






48. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






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






50. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.