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Comptia A + Certification
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.
pinned items list
jargon
bluesnarfing
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
2. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi
mount point
identity theft
liquid crystal display (LCD)
video adapter
3. The box that houses the main computer system.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Internet service provider (ISP)
case
NetBIOS
4. A cable medium that transmits light pulses rather than electrical signals - so it is not susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
fiber-optic cable
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
LPT1
volume
5. The act of writing to two disk drives at the same time - creating identical drives.
internetwork
ultra-portable
mirroring
POST
6. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.
half-duplex
VESA
spyware
watts
7. Aka RAID 5.
striping with interleave parity
Advanced Technology (AT)
EFS
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
8. Aka PCIe.
PCI Express
DVD-Video
HTTP
Disable Automatic Restart
9. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
client/server-based network
switching mode power supply
MIDI
10. Aka FAT file system.
Audit Policy
FAT
PROM
WAN connection
11. 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
TLD
Safe Mode
CRT
memory address
12. Aka wireless access point.
master file table (MFT)
WAP
ARP
I/O address
13. Software that runs on the computers in a network and that receives services from servers.
Li-ion
CRIMM
network client
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
14. Aka thumb drive.
flash drive
IMAP
HD-DVD
access control
15. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.
serial ATA (SATA)
active speaking
TV tuner card
External Serial ATA (eSATA)
16. 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
expansion bus
loopback plug
IEEE 1394a
digital subscriber line (DSL)
17. A file used with a scripted unattended installation along with an answer file. The UDF file provides settings that are unique for each computer.
degaussing
HTML
ERD
uniqueness database file (UDF)
18. An Advanced Options menu choice that creates a log of the Windows startup in a file named NTBTLOG.TXT and saved in thesystemroot folder (normally C:Windows).
mode
voltage regulator module (VRM)
slave drive
Enable Boot Logging
19. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.
track point
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
drive-by download
active listening
20. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.
version
P1 power connector
NTFS permissions
TWAIN
21. A name used by the Windows operating systems to identify any parallel port.
RS-232 port
digitizing tablet
LPT
processor board
22. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640
OCR
Spam over Instant Messaging (spim)
spam
VGA Mode
23. 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.
parts grabber
ink cartridge
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
workgroup
24. RAM that doubles the rate of speed at which a standard SDRAM can process data. Also called DDR and DDR1. A stick of DDR1 SDRAM has 184 pins.
ACPI
double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM
access control list (ACL)
subtree
25. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).
CardBus
DHCP
virus encyclopedia
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
26. Program code that provides a way for someone to gain access to a computer while bypassing security. Only a person who knows how the back door works can use it - but once in - that individual has the same access as the host program to all the internal
ASR
memory bank
back door
Speaker On/Off key
27. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.
DVD-RW
spim
antistatic wrist strap
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)
28. To renew a product activation - required when the activation program discovers significant changes in a computer or the activated product has been installed on a second computer.
Web browser
DSL
reactivate
hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
29. A user interface that takes advantage of the video system's graphics capabilities for manipulated graphic elements that represent objects and tasks.
socket services
frame relay
Internet Protocol (IP)
graphical user interface (GUI)
30. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.
partition type
x86-64
horizontal position
twisted-pair cable
31. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.
password
RDRAM
thermal paste
PCIe Mini Card
32. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
read/write head
contrast ratio
coaxial cable
33. In computer networking - a network located between a private network and the Internet with a firewall on both sides. A DMZ contains servers offering services to users on the Internet and inside the protected private network.
erasure lamp
demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Internet
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
34. A technology for LCD displays in which transistors are positioned at each pixel.
CPE
thumb drive
Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS)
thin-film transistor (TFT)
35. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.
TrackPoint
FSB
Infrared (IR)
SRAM
36. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.
DDR SDRAM
SDRAM
virus
second-level domain (SLD)
37. 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
hidden attribute
contrast ratio
ATX
Foreign
38. Cable that consists of pairs of wires twisted around each other. The twists help to boost each wire's signals and make them less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
NTFS
fraud
DHCP Server
twisted-pair cable
39. Aka video graphics array.
serial ATA (SATA)
VGA
DLP
DHCP
40. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.
DVD-R
Windows Explorer
volatile
solid ink
41. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.
digital subscriber line (DSL)
system resources
random access memory (RAM)
RDRAM
42. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.
nonvolatile memory
horizontal position
Southbridge
Audit Policy
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
land-grid array (LGA)
identity theft
registration
Bluetooth
44. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.
jumper
full-duplex
drive image
WINS
45. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the second channel.
DIMM
transferring
secondary master
100Base-T
46. A program file or some special data file that is part of the operating system and is very important to proper operation of the OS.
primary slave
customer premises equipment (CPE)
system file
media bay
47. A CRT video setting - also known at horizontal hold - that holds the image horizontally on the screen.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
DVD-R
h-hold
peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
48. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
electrostatic discharge (ESD)
DDR SDRAM
CRIMM
SRAM
49. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).
APM
power-on self-test (POST)
WPA
shared video memory
50. A set of wires used by data traveling into and out of a processor.
SDRAM
full-duplex
processor bus
processor