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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






2. The settings within a registry key.






3. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






4. 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.






5. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.






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






7. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






8. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






9. Aka World Wide Web.






10. A straight - round connector used to connect fiber-optic cabling to a network device. It has a twist-type coupling.






11. Aka compact disc.






12. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






13. Aka S-Video.






14. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






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






16. Aka accelerated graphics port.






17. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






18. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.






19. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






20. BIOS that can be electronically upgraded.






21. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






22. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.






23. Aka process priority level.






24. A Windows sleep mode that uses hard drive space to save all the programs and data that are in memory at the time you choose this mode. The computer then completely shuts down and requires no power while it is hibernating.






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






26. Aka Enhanced IDE.






27. 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






28. Aka external cache.






29. A technical standards organization.






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






31. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






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






33. 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 -






34. Aka customer premises equipment.






35. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






36. Aka access control entry.






37. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






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






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






40. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






41. Aka cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor.






42. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






43. Aka PCIe.






44. A network connection device that passes traffic between two networks - using the physical address (MAC address) of the destination device.






45. A Windows wizard that sets options for starting and running a specific old program that will not otherwise run properly in Windows.






46. 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.






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






48. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.






49. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.






50. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.