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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A printer that uses a light beam (laser) in the printing process.






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






3. A device required at both ends of a T-carrier system connection.






4. In a computer - pathways that power - data - and control signals travel from one component to another within the system.






5. A string of characters that a user enters - along with an identifier - such as a user name - in order to be authenticated.






6. Aka PCIe.






7. A virus that is self-replicating.






8. Aka hacker.






9. Aka FAT file system.






10. Circuitry in a PC on an adapter card - or directly on the motherboard - that controls the output from the PC to the display device.






11. Aka permanent virtual circuit.






12. A security service in which authentication credentials are encrypted (user name and password) before transmission over a network.






13. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






14. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo






15. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






16. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






17. Aka System Information.






18. Aka Small Computer System Interface.






19. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






20. 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.






21. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.






22. Aka input/output.






23. Aka floating-point unit.






24. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






25. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






26. A set of wires used by data traveling into and out of a processor.






27. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.






28. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






29. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






30. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






31. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.






32. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






33. A network in which all of the computers essentially operate as both servers (providing access to shared resources) and clients (accessing those shared resources).






34. In an IP packet - a value field that shows how many routers the packet can cross before being discarded.






35. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






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






37. Aka plain-old telephone service.






38. A laptop is a small - easily transported computer - generally weighing less than 7 pounds and with roughly the same dimensions as a 1- to 2-inch-thick stack of magazines. Laptops computers have an all-in-one layout in which the keyboard - and often t






39. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






40. Aka wireless access point.






41. An adapter card used to run a special diagnostic test on a computer as it is powering up. These tests usually go beyond those performed by the system BIOS-based POST.






42. A plastic card - often the size of a credit card - that contains a microchip. The microchip can store information and perform functions - depending on the type of smart card. Some smart cards only store data - whereas others may have a variety of fun






43. A specialized type of memory used only with video adapters.






44. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan






45. 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






46. Aka motherboard.






47. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






48. A disc designed to store all types of data usable by a computer. This term also refers to the drives that read and write to these discs. There are various types of DVD drives and media.






49. Aka second-level domain.






50. Aka capture card.