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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.






5. The portion of the chipset that controls communications between the CPU and system RAM.






6. A pen-sized tool that has a plunger at one end. When pressed - the plunger causes small - hooked prongs to extend from the other end of the tool for retrieving dropped objects from inside a computer.






7. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






8. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.






9. A large burst of electromagnetic energy - as from a nuclear explosion - that has the potential to damage communications and power lines within a large geographic area - depending on the size and location of the pulse.






10. Aka communication network riser.






11. A power-usage level.






12. Aka Advanced Technology.






13. Software that runs on the computers in a network and that receives services from servers.






14. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.






15. Wide-ultra-extended graphics array






16. Aka S-Video.






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






18. Aka digital linear tape.






19. Aka solid-state storage.






20. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






21. A wide area network (WAN) connection that allows a large amount of data to be transmitted. Broadband WANs includes cellular - ISDN - DSL - cable - T-carrier - satellite - and fiber.






22. 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.






23. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






24. Aka motherboard.






25. A drive that can be safely installed and removed while a computer is up and running without damaging the data stored on the drive.






26. A communications system - owned and operated by the telephone companies - that multiplexes voice and data signals onto digital transmission line.






27. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.






28. A device that uses a measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






29. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






30. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






31. The traditional transmission system for television video signals - which combines the color and brightness information with the synchronization data into one signal. The TV circuitry then separates the two signals from the composite signal.






32. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






33. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






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






35. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






36. A file used during an unattended installation of Windows. It provides a script of responses to the questions Setup asks so the user does not have to answer them manually.






37. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






38. 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






39. 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.






40. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






41. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






42. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters






43. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






44. Aka digital subscriber line.






45. Aka nickel-cadmium.






46. A RAID array in which every time data is written to disk - a portion (block) is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across the member disks. RAID 0 uses the total disk space in the array for storage - without protecting the dat






47. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






48. Aka random access memory.






49. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






50. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co







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