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Comptia A + Certification

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1. 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.






2. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.






3. In the Windows registry - a folder that may contain one or more sets of settings as well as other keys.






4. A power supply standard that has both the 20-pin connector for the motherboard and a 4-pin 12 V connector.






5. A new level of an operating system with major changes to the core components.






6. A parallel interface standard that supports bidirectional communication and transfer rates of up to 2 MBps.






7. An LCD display that accepts a digital signal. Early LCD displays accepted an analog signal and converted it to digital internally.






8. A PCMCIA card standard that comes in two interfaces: PCIe and USB 2.0.






9. A command-line tool installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used for testing communications between two hosts.






10. In Windows XP - this replaces the Emergency Repair process of Windows NT and Windows 2000. ASR is available from the Windows Backup program (NTBACKUP.EXE).






11. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






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






13. A connector commonly used for PC keyboards. It is much smaller than the original DIN connector.






14. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






15. Aka nickel metal hydride.






16. Aka floppy disk drive.






17. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






18. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






19. A device used to scan smart cards.






20. A type of printer that uses one of several technologies to apply wet ink to paper to create text or graphic printouts. The two most popular inkjet printer models are the InkJet - developed by Hewlett-Packard - and the Bubble Jet - developed by Canon.






21. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






22. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






23. 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.






24. Aka Universal Serial Bus.






25. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






26. A security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to Windows.






27. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






28. Aka thread.






29. 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.






30. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.






31. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






32. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






33. Aka demilitarized zone.






34. A bundle of patches or updates released periodically by a software publisher.






35. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






36. A motherboard form factor introduced in 2003 by Intel as the successor to ATX.






37. 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.






38. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.






39. Aka refresh rate.






40. Software created to perform malicious acts. Also called malicious software.






41. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






42. Aka v-hold.






43. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






44. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






45. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.






46. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






47. In an IP packet - a value field that shows how many routers the packet can cross before being discarded.






48. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






49. A paid television subscription service offered by cable television providers.






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