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1. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.






2. In reference to parallel ports - a mode in which the parallel device connected to the parallel port can receive data but cannot send data. CMOS settings (system settings) may refer to this mode as "Transfer only."






3. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






4. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






5. Aka logical block address.






6. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.






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






8. Aka process priority level.






9. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






10. The traditional wired telephone network.






11. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






12. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.






13. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






14. Aka thumb drive.






15. Aka antistatic mat.






16. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






17. Aka communication network riser.






18. Aka Small Outline RIMM.






19. 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






20. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






21. A system resource that certain devices - such as sound cards and hard drives - can use to move data between the device and system RAM without involving the processor.






22. A DVI mode that supports both analog and digital video signals.






23. One of the two prevailing CPU manufacturers.






24. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th






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






26. A service on a laptop that configures a card after socket services has recognized it.






27. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






28. A virus that downloads to a user's computer through a pop-up window that appears in a Web browser. It requires an action on the part of a user - such as clicking a button that implies acceptance of something like free information.






29. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






30. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






31. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






32. Aka hard disk drive.






33. Aka top-level domain.






34. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.






35. 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 measures 10.5 mm thick.






36. A type of printer that uses a film coated with colored wax that melts onto paper. These printers are similar to dye-sublimation printers but differ in two major ways: the film contains wax rather than dye - and these printers do not require special p






37. Aka external cache.






38. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






39. Aka interrupt request line.






40. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






41. 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.






42. A device that converts digital signals from the broadband connection to voice for the analog phone and the analog voice signals to digital signals for the digital network.






43. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






44. Aka PCIe.






45. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






46. Memory that does not require power to keep stored data intact. Also called flash memory.






47. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.






48. 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.






49. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






50. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c







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