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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka floating-point unit.






2. Aka thermal compound.






3. A blanket term used for DVD discs regardless of the type of data they contain.






4. Aka SCSI host adapter.






5. A virus that is self-replicating.






6. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.






7. Windows run-line utility for testing the DirectX support. Launch this program when experiencing video problems and/or audio problems when running DirectX applications.






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






9. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.






10. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






11. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






12. 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.






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






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






15. Aka display.






16. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.






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






18. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






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






20. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






21. Aka thermal compound.






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






23. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






24. 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.






25. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.






26. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.






27. Small text files a Web browser saves on the local hard drive at the request of a Website. Cookies can contain information that will be used the next time the user connects to the Website.






28. Aka accelerated graphics port.






29. A technology used by hard drives to speed up data transfers by using DMA channels.






30. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






31. Aka Scalable Link Interface.






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






33. A special modifier key on a laptop keyboard that when pressed together with certain alphanumeric keys - changes the output of the pressed key. It is often called the function key.






34. Aka PCIe.






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






36. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






37. 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






38. Laser discs sold at retail stores that contain music (audio CDs) or software (data CDs).






39. A cooling fan located on a CPU.






40. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






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






42. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






43. A processor packaging that uses pads on the processor that come in contact with pins in the socket on the motherboard - permitting a higher density than possible with PGA.






44. A software fix for a single problem.






45. Aka virtual circuit.






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






47. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






48. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






49. Aka parts grabber.






50. Aka power-on self-test.