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1. A program that causes a modem to dial phone numbers surreptitiously.






2. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






3. Aka local area network.






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






5. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






6. A wireless network standard that uses the 5 GHz band.






7. A private internetwork.






8. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






9. Aka Advanced Power Management.






10. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






11. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.






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






13. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






14. A menu that opens from the Start button on the taskbar.






15. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






16. Aka thermal compound.






17. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






18. A process applied to digitally signed code to unencrypt the signature data and use the information to verify the program code was not modified since the signature was added.






19. A type of switched network used by phone companies.






20. A dedicated computer that stores data and provides print services or other capabilities to network clients.






21. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






22. 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






23. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.






24. 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






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






26. Data communications over the cellular telecommunications networks.






27. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






28. A subpackaging of a Windows revision that contains the core OS plus a special set of features that is offered as a separate product targeted to a certain type of end user.






29. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk






30. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






31. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays






32. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.






33. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.






34. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.






35. A utility in Windows NT for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






36. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. It also displays in low






37. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






38. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.






39. Aka central processing unit.






40. Aka motherboard.






41. Aka Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.






42. Aka digital linear tape.






43. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.






44. Aka System Information.






45. The file system component in the FAT file system in which the OS creates a table that serves as a map of where files reside on disk. Also called the FAT table.






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






47. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






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






49. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.






50. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.






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