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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






2. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.






3. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






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






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






6. A virus that gains access to a computer by masquerading as a harmless program that a user innocently installs on the computer.






7. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.






8. A system resource that certain devices - such as sound cards and hard drives - can use to move data between the device and system RAM without involving the processor.






9. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






10. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






11. Aka point-to-point protocol.






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






13. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.






14. A CPU power-saving mode that allows a CPU to reduce its speed without losing its place so it does not stop working altogether. SMM also allows the CPU to trigger power saving in other components.






15. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.






16. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."






17. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






18. Aka digital linear tape.






19. Aka denial of service (DoS) attack.






20. 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.






21. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






22. 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.






23. Aka central processing unit.






24. 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.






25. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






26. A value assigned to a process that controls the order in which the program code is executed in relation to other code.






27. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.






28. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






29. Aka software firewall.






30. 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.






31. Aka RAID 5.






32. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.






33. An extension of the SATA standard for external SATA devices - with speeds triple that of USB 2.0.






34. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






35. A portable computer small enough to fit in your hand - also referred to as a "palmtop" computer. Because it is so small - a PDA does not have the functionality of a laptop or desktop computer. In other words - a typical PDA allows you to perform only






36. In fiber-optics - a single light wave passing down a cable.






37. The black box that appears around an image - such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.






38. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






39. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






40. A Windows program that launches Internet Explorer and connects to the Windows Update Website.






41. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






42. The act of electronically upgrading BIOS.






43. A standardized document that contains general information - ingredients - and fire and explosion warnings as well as health - disposal - and safe transportation information about a particular product. Any manufacturer that sells a potentially hazardo






44. A 25-pin D-shell connector.






45. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






46. A type of printer that uses a film coated with colored wax that melts onto paper. These printers are similar to dye-sublimation printers but differ in two major ways: the film contains wax rather than dye - and these printers do not require special p






47. An external serial bus standardized by the IEEE. Apple first developed it as FireWire. Other manufacturers call it i.link or Lynx. It can support up to 63 daisy-chained devices. Since the introduction of the faster update - IEEE 1394b - the original






48. Aka pin grid array.






49. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






50. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data