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Comptia A + Certification
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1. Aka serial ATA.
SATA
base priority level
MIDI
I/O address
2. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.
EPROM
Emergency Repair Process
Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)
PS/2
3. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.
discretion
KVM switch
plug and play (PnP)
MAC
4. 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.
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
Fn key
Lucent connector (LC)
beam-on-blade connector
5. Aka dynamic RAM.
PGA
mini-audio connector
grounding mat
DRAM
6. A chip that works with a serial port - converting outgoing data from parallel to serial and incoming data from serial to parallel.
Super Video
TrackPoint
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
fiber-optic cable
7. 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.
Rambus Dynamic RAM (RDRAM)
fast page mode (FPM)
digital versatile disc (DVD)
active communication
8. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.
Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
DNS
TCP/IP
9. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.
memory controller chip (MCC)
secondary slave
WPA2
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
10. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.
graphical processing unit (GPU)
stand-alone computer
distribution share
virus
11. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.
TV tuner card
System File Checker (SFC)
toner
IEEE 1394a
12. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.
input/out (I/O)
Ethernet
FAT32
laser beam
13. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals
MBR
dead pixel
XGA
RGB video
14. 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.
T1
Media Access Control (MAC) address
Type II
System Information (MSINFO32.EXE)
15. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.
802.11g
Automatic Private IP Address (APIPA)
Y
ARP
16. 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
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
Standby
dynamic disk
SMTP
17. A single-pin RCA phone jack for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and speakers.
Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)
DIMM
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
Internet service provider (ISP)
18. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.
PPTP
Fast Ethernet
asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL)
LPT2
19. In computer networking - a network located between a private network and the Internet with a firewall on both sides. A DMZ contains servers offering services to users on the Internet and inside the protected private network.
permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)
Compact Disc File System (CDFS)
20. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.
port triggering
distribution share
Media Access Control (MAC) address
bluesnarfing
21. The classic PC serial port that complies with the Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232) in its circuitry - cabling - and connector design - and transfers data one bit at a time.
driver signing
LVDS
impact printer
RS-232 port
22. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.
Start Bar
share
jargon
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
23. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.
memory bank
shortcut
S-Video
infrastructure mode
24. One of many low-level instructions built into the control unit of a CPU. Also called a microprogram.
COMx
plug and play (PnP)
microcode
electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
25. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.
partition type
graphical processing unit (GPU)
DVD-18
software firewall
26. Aka thumb drive.
error-correcting code (ECC)
jump drive
802.11a
dial-up
27. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.
DVD+RW
ALU
memory address
ASR
28. The role of the second EIDE drive on a PATA channel.
IPCONFIG
slave drive
time to live (TTL)
NLX
29. Microsoft's product activation program.
ACT
ExpressCard
Microsoft Product Activation (MPA)
Internet service provider (ISP)
30. A pointing device built into some laptop keyboards. It appears to be a very tiny joystick-type button that barely protrudes above the level of the keys.
plug and play (PnP)
pointing stick
IRQ
musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
31. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.
PCI-E
subscriber connector (SC)
BDD Workbench
port
32. An assigned channel over which a device can send a signal to the processor to get its attention.
FAT32
KVM switch
interrupt request line (IRQ)
RAID 0
33. Aka IEEE 1394.
RAID controller
FireWire
smart phone
DSL
34. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.
SORIMM
CrossFire
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
DVD-Video
35. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.
USB
phishing
active partition
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
36. 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.
Level 3 (L3) cache
customer premises equipment (CPE)
hibernate
system area
37. Introduced in Windows 2000 - a user interface for Windows administration tools that is flexible and configurable.
secondary slave
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Web browser
EPROM
38. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.
Trojan horse
video graphics array (VGA)
Windows Explorer
RJ-11
39. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.
dynamic RAM (DRAM)
Media Access Control (MAC) address
Fast Ethernet
Li-ion
40. 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 3.3 millimeters thick.
8-bit high color
single inline memory module (SIMM)
LBA
Type I
41. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.
Enhanced IDE (EIDE)
DVD-Video
solid-state storage
loopback plug
42. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.
floating-point unit (FPU)
DVD-ROM drive
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
projector
43. A type of DSL service in which the download speed is higher than the upload speed.
asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL)
RIP
RAID array
sector translation
44. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.
point-to-point protocol (PPP)
graphical user interface (GUI)
User Account Control (UAC)
parallel port
45. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.
dotted decimal notation
processor
portable computer
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
46. 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.
file allocation table (FAT)
Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA)
dial-up modem
VC
47. Aka PCIe.
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
PCI-E
PCI
boot record
48. Aka basic input/output system.
Internet Protocol (IP)
ad hoc mode
BIOS
half-duplex
49. Aka external cache.
math coprocessor
biometric logon
IP packet filtering
Level 3 (L3) cache
50. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.
EVGA
Fast Ethernet
Level 2 (L2) cache
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
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