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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 3.3 millimeters thick.
ECP
planar board
Type I
Windows Easy Transfer (WET)
2. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th
address bus
AC adapter
notification area
expansion bus
3. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.
mini-notebook
digital linear tape (DLT)
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
ECC
4. An LCD display that accepts a digital signal. Early LCD displays accepted an analog signal and converted it to digital internally.
input/out (I/O)
Last Known Good Configuration
digital LCD display
socket
5. A parallel port mode in which the signals can be transmitted in both directions between the PC and parallel devices connected to the computer.
IPCONFIG
primary slave
bidirectional mode
Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA)
6. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.
Intel x86 Specification
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
DVD-10
vertical refresh rate
7. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.
mounted drive
multi-monitor
bandwidth
APIPA
8. Aka automated system recovery.
network address translation (NAT)
MIDI
ASR
gadget
9. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.
CRT
RAID controller
mainboard
graphics tablet
10. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600
HTTP
switch
demilitarized zone (DMZ)
super video graphics array (SVGA)
11. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.
Southbridge
random access memory (RAM)
charging
DMA controller
12. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.
partition
device driver
denial of service (DoS) attack
netbook
13. A perpetrator of malicious software attacks against computers and networks. Also called a cracker.
electrostatic discharge (ESD)
hacker
continuity RIMM (CRIMM)
NetBEUI
14. 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 -
port
PGA
voltage regulator module (VRM)
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
15. Aka RAID 5.
system tray
striping with interleave parity
accessory bay
Gigabit Ethernet
16. A plug designed for testing a specific port type (e.g. - serial - parallel - or USB). The plug does not connect to a cable but reroutes the sending pins to the receiving pins. Using special software on the computer - a loopback test is performed in w
subtree
EPROM
DDR SDRAM
loopback plug
17. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.
file
OCR
SSL
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
18. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.
authentication factor
stylus
thin-film transistor (TFT)
digital video discs
19. Aka ATA Packet Interface.
bit width
digital versatile disc (DVD)
ATAPI
thin-film transistor (TFT)
20. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."
high-voltage power supply (HVPS)
pixel
Color Quality
accelerated graphics port (AGP)
21. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.
adapter card
reactivate
lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery
System Monitor
22. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.
internal bus
VGA Mode
OCR
DVD+RW
23. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
netbook
control unit
24. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.
FAT16
contrast ratio
coaxial cable
touch screen
25. 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.
read/write head
System Configuration Utility
TrackPoint
system board
26. Aka alternating current.
bridge
low-voltage differential (LVD)
AC
SXGA
27. Aka Advanced Power Management.
FAT32
cable select
APM
gadget
28. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.
discretion
Y
grayware
Microsoft Product Activation (MPA)
29. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.
graphical processing unit (GPU)
asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL)
NetBEUI
Level 3 (L3) cache
30. Aka Small Outline DIMM.
communication network riser (CNR)
SODIMM
dot matrix printer
root directory
31. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
Northbridge
IEEE 1394a
CardBus
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
32. A file system in which one of the basic structures is a table used for allocating space. This table is called the file allocation table (FAT).
DDR2
internetwork
Small Outline DIMM (SODIMM)
FAT file system
33. Aka serial ATA.
NTLDR
frame relay
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
SATA
34. 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
unattended installation
SODIMM
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
firewall
35. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.
multimeter
developing
error-correcting code (ECC)
service pack
36. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.
laser printer
emergency repair disk (ERD)
HTTP
mini-DIN-6
37. A connection point on a device or computer - sometimes called a socket.
shared video memory
port
FTP
DVD-5
38. A measurement of the pressure of electrons - the electromotive force. It is calculated by the formula volts = watts / amps.
volts
DB-25
local group account
Spam over Instant Messaging (spim)
39. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and measures 10.5 mm thick.
Type III
soft power
DIN connector
RAID 5
40. Aka electromagnetic pulse.
UPS
EMP
adapter card
ATAPI
41. A virus that is self-replicating.
worm
LPT1
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
SXGA
42. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
system attribute
switching mode power supply
TV tuner card
43. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.
local group account
key fob
DIN connector
contrast ratio
44. A program installed and activated on a computer without the user's knowledge or permission. At the least - the intent is mischief - but most often the intent is to cause damage.
virus
security auditing
Extended Video Graphics Array (EVGA)
FAT32
45. An improved version of WPA that does not support older network cards and offers both secure authentication and data encryption. It uses EAP for a variety of authentication methods
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)
network interface card (NIC)
flash memory
single-mode fiber (SMF)
46. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.
PCI
CMOS settings
audio modem riser (AMR)
FPM
47. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.
NTFS
T-carrier system
Advanced Technology (AT)
LED
48. The classic PC serial port that complies with the Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232) in its circuitry - cabling - and connector design - and transfers data one bit at a time.
authorization
RS-232 port
basic storage
touchpad
49. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.
System Information (MSINFO32.EXE)
personal firewall
registration
Foreign
50. 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
field replaceable unit (FRU)
ASR
Media Access Control (MAC) address
root directory