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Comptia A + Certification
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1. A program that causes a modem to dial phone numbers surreptitiously.
MSCONFIG
RGB video
taskbar
dialer
2. A printer that creates printed output line by line.
line printer
single-layer (SL)
Level 1 (L1) cache
Type II
3. Aka local area network.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
auto-switching power supply
ANSI
LAN
4. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.
TRACERT
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
laser beam
NetBEUI
5. 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.
wireless access point (WAP)
KVM over IP
multi-monitor
Lucent connector (LC)
6. A wireless network standard that uses the 5 GHz band.
802.11a
patch
DVD+R
CD-ROM
7. A private internetwork.
intranet
boot sequence
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
8. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.
IP router
Windows XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
security policy
9. Aka Advanced Power Management.
APM
MIDI
Centronics
process
10. 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.
parity
fiber-optic cable
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
multifunction device (MFD)
11. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.
Display Mode Key
Li-ion
MMC
DVD
12. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).
spim
nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries
intranet
metropolitan area network (MAN)
13. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo
alternating current
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
Windows Explorer
MicroDIMM
14. A menu that opens from the Start button on the taskbar.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
MIDI
Start menu
power management
15. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.
PPTP
permission
thermal printer
WUXGA
16. Aka thermal compound.
thermal paste
virtual circuit (VC)
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
local remote KVM switch
17. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.
chrominance
drive image
dead pixel
IEEE
18. A process applied to digitally signed code to unencrypt the signature data and use the information to verify the program code was not modified since the signature was added.
file signature verification
Southbridge
serial ATA (SATA)
secure attention sequence (SAS)
19. A type of switched network used by phone companies.
frame relay
system area
ink cartridge
enhanced capability port (ECP) mode
20. A dedicated computer that stores data and provides print services or other capabilities to network clients.
letterbox
server
floating-point unit (FPU)
DSL
21. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.
primary partition
ICMP
Enable Boot Logging
spindle
22. 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
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Advanced Power Management (APM)
bus
authorization
23. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.
Start Windows Normally
latency
flat panel display (FPD)
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
24. A plastic card - often the size of a credit card - that contains a microchip. The microchip can store information and perform functions - depending on the type of smart card. Some smart cards only store data - whereas others may have a variety of fun
pin-out
Distributed File System (DFS)
extension magnet
smart card
25. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.
802.11b
dialer
VGA Mode
Disable Automatic Restart
26. Data communications over the cellular telecommunications networks.
DVI-A
display power-management signaling (DPMS)
data migration
cellular WAN
27. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.
ATM
RAM
memory address
dial-up
28. 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.
v-hold
land-grid array (LGA)
multi-GPU solution
edition
29. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk
RIMM
phishing
cleaning blade
Foreign
30. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.
System Configuration Utility
dotted decimal notation
routing information protocol (RIP)
share
31. 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
display resolution
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
Safe Mode
T-carrier system
32. 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.
twisted-pair cable
WPA2
DVD
I/O address
33. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.
Type II
Device Manager
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
video adapter card
34. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.
thumb drive
dynamic storage
volume
trusted platform module (TPM)
35. A utility in Windows NT for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.
DVD-18
super video graphics array (SVGA)
Performance Monitor
x86-64
36. 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. It also displays in low
virtual memory
authentication factor
liquid cooling system
Safe Mode With Networking
37. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.
C
uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
38. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.
ISDN
ANSI
FAT32
hidden attribute
39. Aka central processing unit.
processor
radio frequency (RF)
NETSTAT
remote KVM switch
40. Aka motherboard.
planar board
antistatic mat
CSU
SRAM
41. Aka Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
process
primary corona wire
LAN
ACPI
42. Aka digital linear tape.
MSINFO32.EXE
DIP switch
DLT
Enable VGA Mode
43. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.
Level 2 (L2) cache
random access memory (RAM)
frame relay
cable select
44. Aka System Information.
MSINFO32.EXE
monitor
firewall
pit
45. 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.
file allocation table (FAT)
x86-64
Ethernet
100Base-T
46. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
laser printer
ZIF
SD Card
DDR1
47. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.
share
register
LPT1
Static RAM (SRAM)
48. Software created to perform malicious acts. Also called malicious software.
CNR
malware
passive matrix display
Internet
49. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
personal firewall
SSL
universal data format (UDF)
SMTP
50. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.
primary master
accelerated graphics port (AGP)
direct memory access (DMA) channel
secure attention sequence (SAS)
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