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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






2. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.






3. The number of colors used by a display.






4. 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 5.0 millimeters thick.






5. The early standard developed by PCMCIA for credit-card-sized devices used in laptops.






6. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.






7. A device used to scan smart cards.






8. Aka Enhanced IDE.






9. 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






10. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.






11. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






12. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






13. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






14. A way to monitor security-related events.






15. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






16. Aka power supply.






17. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






18. Aka digitizing tablet.






19. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.






20. Aka Ethernet.






21. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.






22. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the first channel.






23. A file operation in which the file or folder remains in the source location - and a duplicate is created in the target (destination) location.






24. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.






25. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.






26. 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.






27. Aka security auditing.






28. An area on the top left of the Windows XP Start menu containing shortcuts to Windows Update and programs for browsing the Internet and using e-mail.






29. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.






30. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






31. Aka systray.






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






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






34. Aka master boot record.






35. A communications system now used for data communications via satellite that usually uses microwave radio frequencies and requires a dish antenna - receiver - and transmitter.






36. Data communications over the cellular telecommunications networks.






37. An adapter used to connect a computer or other device to a network medium.






38. A network in which dedicated computers called servers store data and provide print services or other capabilities to computers running the appropriate client service or services.






39. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.






40. A magnetic storage device that stores data on metal platters that have a coating that holds data in the form of changes to small magnetic particles in the coating. Also called HDD.






41. Aka secure socket layer.






42. A protocol that transfers e-mail messages between mail servers. Clients also use this protocol to send e-mail to mail servers.






43. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






44. A network device that is used to extend the range of a network by taking the signals received on a port from one network and regenerating (repeating) those signals to another port to transmit them on a second network.






45. 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.






46. Aka SCSI host adapter.






47. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object






48. Aka demilitarized zone.






49. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






50. 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).