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1. Aka PCIe.






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






3. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






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






5. Aka digital versatile disc (DVD).






6. Aka file allocation table.






7. In a laser printer - a high-intensity lamp that - when shone on a portion of the electro-photosensitive drum - removes any remaining charge on that portion of the drum.






8. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






9. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.






10. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.






11. The traditional wired telephone network.






12. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).






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






14. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have






15. A 20- or 24- pin connector that supplies power from a PC's power supply to the motherboard.






16. AMD manufactures CPUs and other products - and its chief rival is Intel Corporation.






17. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






18. A firewall service that inspects (or filters) each packet that enters or leaves the network - applying a set of security rules defined by a network administrator - and not allowing packets that fail inspection to pass between networks.






19. A power supply and motherboard feature that allows software to turn off a computer rather than only using a physical switch.






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






21. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






22. A protocol that allows routers to update their list of routes dynamically. RIP dates to the 1980s and is considered obsolete; even though - it has been updated a few times and is still supported by most routers.






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






24. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






25. Aka MSCONFIG.






26. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






27. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






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






29. The third version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it is a departure from the old standards in that it uses Category 5e twisted pair cable with RJ-45 connectors - combining Ethernet and FireWire.






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






31. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.






32. Aka v-hold.






33. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.






34. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.






35. A network that covers a relatively small area - such as a building - home - office - or campus. The typical distances are measured in hundreds of meters.






36. A solid-state storage standard for high-capacity (2 - 4 - and 8 GB) memory cards that are tiny






37. Aka front side bus.






38. An Intel standard for motherboards targeted to the low-end consumer market that includes built-in components - while saving space and fitting into a smaller case.






39. 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






40. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






41. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






42. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.






43. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.






44. 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.






45. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






46. The chunks into which the TCP protocol packages data. In addition to the data - each datagram contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the chunks of data into the original messag






47. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






48. 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.






49. Software created to perform malicious acts. Also called malicious software.






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







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