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1. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






2. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






3. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






4. 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.






5. In an operating system GUI - a tiny graphic representing an application - folder - disk - menu item - or other entity.






6. A storage type in Windows that uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






7. An LCD technology based on thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. An active matrix display has a transistor at every pixel - which enables much quicker display changes than passive matrix displays and produces a display quality comparable to a CRT.






8. Aka super video graphics array.






9. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






10. Aka basic input/output system.






11. Aka pointing stick.






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






13. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.






14. Aka compact disc.






15. 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






16. Aka digital subscriber line.






17. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.






18. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






19. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet.






20. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






21. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






22. The worldwide network that carries traditional voice traffic.






23. A local bus designed for video only - it provides a direct link between the processor and the video card - giving the video card direct access to main memory.






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






25. 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.






26. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






27. A service implemented on Windows Servers that hides the complexity of the network from end users in that it makes files that are distributed across multiple servers appear as if they are in one place.






28. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






29. Aka v-hold.






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






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






32. Aka display power-management signaling.






33. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






34. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






35. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association whose members include Sony - 20th Century Fox - Dell - Hewlett-Packard - and many other industry leaders.






36. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






37. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






38. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






39. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b






40. Also called mirroring - this RAID array type provides fault tolerance because all the data is written identically to the two drives in the mirrored set.






41. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.






42. Aka video graphics array.






43. A tool for migrating user data and settings from one Windows computer to a computer running Windows XP.






44. Video RAM memory that uses a technique for using video RAM to perform Windows-specific functions to speed up the OS.






45. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.






46. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






47. BIOS that can be electronically upgraded.






48. A Windows display setting that allows you to adjust the number of colors - or color depth - used by the display.






49. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






50. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.







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