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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An extension of the SATA standard for external SATA devices - with speeds triple that of USB 2.0.






2. A small cassette containing an ink reservoir used to provide the medium for certain printers. An ink cartridge will only fit a certain model printer.






3. The number of colors used by a display.






4. 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






5. A digital video interface that has several modes - including one that offers downward compatibility with analog displays. It requires a special connector - which comes in several variations to support the DVI modes.






6. A diagram showing the purpose of each wire in a connector.






7. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.






8. Any type of computer that you can easily transport and that contains an all-in-one component layout.






9. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.






10. A registry key that exists within another key.






11. A DVD of any type that can contain data on only one side.






12. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






13. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






14. Aka Domain Name Service.






15. A standardized document that contains general information - ingredients - and fire and explosion warnings as well as health - disposal - and safe transportation information about a particular product. Any manufacturer that sells a potentially hazardo






16. Aka second-level domain.






17. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






18. Aka PCIe.






19. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






20. Aka interrupt request line.






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






22. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.






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






24. The proportion between an image's width and height. Traditional CRT monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3. Widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.






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






26. 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






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






28. A set of technologies that allow voice transmission over an IP network






29. Aka paging file.






30. A connector commonly used for PC keyboards. It is much smaller than the original DIN connector.






31. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






32. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






33. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.






34. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






35. 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.






36. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th






37. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR standard. Using far less power than DDR1 - a stick of DDR2 SDRAM has 240 pins.






38. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






39. A password that meets certain criteria in order to be difficult to crack. One definition of a strong password is one that contains at least eight characters - includes a combination of letters - numbers - and other symbols ( _ - - - $ - and so on) an






40. 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






41. A shared folder on a distribution server containing the source files for a remote installation.






42. Aka internal cache memory.






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






44. A software fix for a single problem.






45. A non-routable network protocol suite for use only in small networks.






46. The protocol used by DHCP servers and clients. A DHCP server allocates IP addresses within the scope of addresses configured on the server by an administrator. DHCP clients request IP addresses and other IP configuration settings from DHCP Servers.






47. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






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






49. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






50. An expansion bus architecture that uses serial communications rather than the parallel communications of PCI. Also called PCI Express and PCI-E.