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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






2. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






3. Aka secure socket layer.






4. 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.






5. An internal bus in a CPU that connects it to memory and video.






6. In regard to Windows operating systems - a version of Windows that is designed to work with a certain manufacturer's equipment.






7. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object






8. Software that takes a scanned image and interprets the patterns in the image into alphanumeric characters.






9. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






10. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






11. A fiber-optic connector that resembles an RJ-45 network connector and is less expensive and easier to work with than ST or SC connectors.






12. Aka Digital Light Processing.






13. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






14. The displayable number of pixels - expressed as x and y numbers - such as 1024






15. A device that records video content to disk.






16. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






17. Aka Post Office Protocol.






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






19. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






20. A printer that uses a light beam (laser) in the printing process.






21. In a CPU - the component that is primarily responsible for directing all the activities of the computer and the interactions of its components.






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






23. A set of behaviors including active listening and active speaking that shows you are fully engaged in the conversation and encourages the other person to also communicate in a positive manner.






24. Aka radio frequency.






25. The generic term for a pointing stick.






26. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






27. A perpetrator of malicious software attacks against computers and networks. Also called a cracker.






28. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






29. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






30. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






31. Aka motherboard.






32. A video interface - also called Super Video - that transmits video using two signals






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






34. 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






35. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






36. Aka internal cache memory.






37. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






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






39. Aka expansion bus.






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






41. 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.






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






43. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.






44. Aka systray.






45. Software that runs on the computers in a network and that receives services from servers.






46. 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.






47. A common connector used to connect a power supply to floppy drives.






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






49. Client software for browsing and accessing the content on the World Wide Web. Examples include Internet Explorer and Firefox.






50. A storage type in Windows that uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.