SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Comptia A + Certification
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
certifications
,
comptia-a-+
,
it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A 20- or 24- pin connector that supplies power from a PC's power supply to the motherboard.
smart card
P1 power connector
Bluetooth
IEEE 1284
2. Aka nickel-cadmium.
error-correcting code (ECC)
solid ink
Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)
NiCD
3. Aka error-correcting code.
second-level domain (SLD)
ALU
ECC
front side bus (FSB)
4. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.
DVD-ROM
CRT
P412V
Media Access Control (MAC) address
5. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.
Enable Low Resolution Video
CMOS
Reliability and Performance Monitor
mounted drive
6. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.
Automated System Recovery (ASR)
RAID controller
CRIMM
cache controller
7. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard - promoted by Toshiba - that was defeated by the Blu-ray Disc standard as the widely accepted high-definition standard.
version
Northbridge
HD-DVD
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
8. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.
active communication
BIOS settings
Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)
BTX
9. Aka automated system recovery.
VESA
DDR3
DVD-ROM drive
ASR
10. A set of behaviors for the workplace that includes how you interact with people and how you treat property.
adapter card
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
professionalism
MSINFO32.EXE
11. Aka Fast Ethernet.
DVD-ROM
pointing stick
100Base-T
FTP
12. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.
FAT table
memory controller chip (MCC)
Media Access Control (MAC) address
stand-alone computer
13. A laptop is a small - easily transported computer - generally weighing less than 7 pounds and with roughly the same dimensions as a 1- to 2-inch-thick stack of magazines. Laptops computers have an all-in-one layout in which the keyboard - and often t
Speaker Volume Key
laptop
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
primary partition
14. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.
datagram
SIMM
IP router
NIC
15. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.
horizontal position
dot matrix printer
boot sequence
digitizer
16. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.
routing information protocol (RIP)
Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
multi-monitor
multiplexing
17. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that the video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Wind
HDD
Enable Low Resolution Video
computer platform
AT
18. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.
time to live (TTL)
random access memory (RAM)
Centronics
CD-ROM
19. Aka MSCONFIG.
hub
Web browser
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
System Configuration Utility
20. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.
PPTP
letterbox
compact disc (CD)
RAID controller
21. A menu that opens from the Start button on the taskbar.
802.11n
EPROM
Start menu
Program Compatibility Wizard
22. One or more chips designed to work closely with the CPU. Two parts of this chipset are the Northbridge and the Southbridge.
chipset
adware
CRIMM
Ethernet
23. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.
laser beam
process ID
pinned items list
System Monitor
24. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.
DVD-RAM
system requirements
EEPROM
jargon
25. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy
registered jack (RJ)
primary partition
liquid cooling system
point stick
26. Aka dynamic RAM.
DRAM
high-voltage power supply (HVPS)
primary corona wire
AT
27. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.
power state
socket
floating-point unit (FPU)
multimode fiber (MMF)
28. Aka motherboard.
electro-photosensitive drum
planar board
AC
local user account
29. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.
touch screen
DVD-10
processor board
DDR
30. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
DDR SDRAM
latency
Y
DDR RAM
31. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.
regional settings
heat sink
Voice over IP (VoIP)
digitizing tablet
32. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.
transferring
DLT
digital linear tape (DLT)
Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM)
33. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.
Internet
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
single-sided (SS) DVD
Microsoft Product Activation (MPA)
34. A power-usage level.
DVD-ROM
power state
virtual file allocation table (VFAT)
LAN
35. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.
extended partition
SATA
electrostatic discharge (ESD)
social engineering
36. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.
expansion bus
port replicator
spyware
Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA)
37. Aka random access memory.
RAM
personal area network (PAN)
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
38. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.
multiplexing
shared video memory
I/O
repeater
39. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre
hyper threading
extending extractor
cluster
capacity
40. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.
PING
amperes (amps)
802.11n
Display Mode Key
41. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.
FAT16
loopback plug
access control list (ACL)
subscriber connector (SC)
42. Aka thermal compound.
malware
erasure lamp
heat sink compound
Web browser
43. Aka security auditing.
auditing
server
regional settings
CardBus
44. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).
shadow mask
activation
coaxial cable
Safe Mode
45. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.
Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM)
NLX
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
cable tester
46. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
display resolution
vertical refresh rate
P1 power connector
47. A RAM module designed for subcompact and laptop computers. It is half the size of a SoDIMM module.
RAID array
MicroDIMM
VRAM
LVDS
48. The chunks into which the TCP protocol packages data. In addition to the data - each datagram contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the chunks of data into the original messag
HD-DVD
track point
datagram
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
49. AMD manufactures CPUs and other products - and its chief rival is Intel Corporation.
DVD-18
address bus
cluster
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
50. 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
Safe Mode With Networking
DMA controller
PS/2
secure socket layer (SSL)