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Comptia A + Certification
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 small cassette containing an ink reservoir used to provide the medium for certain printers. An ink cartridge will only fit a certain model printer.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
System Management Mode (SMM)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
ink cartridge
2. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640
Display Mode Key
Spam over Instant Messaging (spim)
super video graphics array (SVGA)
VGA Mode
3. The role of the first EIDE drive on a PATA channel.
magnetic mass storage
capture card
master drive
biometric device
4. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.
data migration
thread
CPU fan
Preboot eXecution Environment
5. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.
NTLDR
power supply tester
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
CRT
6. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.
virtual private network (VPN)
front side bus (FSB)
Type III
cleaning
7. 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.
memory bank
MIMO (multiple input/multiple output)
daughter card
DDoS Attack
8. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.
parallel port
domain
DLT
active speaking
9. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an
SSL
adapter card
mini-DIN-6
World Wide Web
10. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.
ad hoc mode
BDD Workbench
power supply tester
Advanced Technology eXtended (ATX)
11. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.
memory address
gadget
mainboard
DRAM
12. A video interface - also called Super Video - that transmits video using two signals
S-Video
VGA Mode
inverter
SCSI host adapter
13. 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
Balanced Technology eXtended
dynamic disk
war driving
unidirectional mode
14. A riser card that is similar to audio modem riser (AMR) except that it is plug and play-compatible and supports LANs in addition to audio - modem - and sound.
communication network riser (CNR)
server
SCSI host adapter
IMAP
15. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
taskbar
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
aspect ratio
16. Fiber-optic cable in which multiple light waves can pass simultaneously. Usually larger in diameter than single-mode fiber; and each wave uses a certain portion of the fiber cable for transmission.
multimode fiber (MMF)
Windows Update
ad hoc mode
hot spot
17. Aka radio frequency.
spim
RF
PPTP
TrackPoint
18. A round connector that gets its name from Deutsche Industrie Norm - a German standards organization. Normally a round connector with a circular or semicircle of pins.
drive path
DIN connector
modding
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
19. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission
Trojan horse
digital subscriber line (DSL)
authorization
NAT
20. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.
IEEE 1394c-2006
voltage regulator module (VRM)
random access memory (RAM)
Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)
21. Unsolicited e-mail.
unidirectional mode
spam
AMR
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
22. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.
power supply
WRAM
wide area network (WAN)
industry standard architecture (ISA)
23. Aka access control entry.
ACE
Speaker Volume Key
VFAT
multifunction device (MFD)
24. Aka central processing unit.
processor
industry standard architecture (ISA)
dead pixel
motherboard
25. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
taskbar
secondary slave
IRQ
IEEE 1394a
26. The bus within a CPU that connects the CPU to external components.
mode
internal bus
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
Level 3 (L3) cache
27. Aka virtual circuit.
VC
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
parallel port
28. Aka taskbar.
laptop
Start Bar
eSATA
floppy disk drive
29. An Advanced Options menu choice that simply causes Windows to restart normally (if it can).
mini-DIN-6
Start Windows Normally
Speaker Volume Key
DC Controller
30. Memory locations within a CPU that is used as a scratch pad for calculations. Modern CPUs have dedicated registers for specific functions and general-purpose registers for multiple purposes.
register
universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
mini-audio connector
permission
31. A memory module (stick) that installs into matching DIMM sockets found on many motherboards. The word "dual" refers to the separate pins or connections on both sides of the module and socket.
file signature verification
local remote KVM switch
ERD
dual inline memory module (DIMM)
32. Aka electronic KVM switch.
EFS
active KVM switch
identity theft
IEEE 1394b
33. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.
power-on self-test (POST)
lit pixel
graphical processing unit (GPU)
HDMI
34. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.
32-bit
ATAPI
Display Mode Key
IP router
35. Aka pointing stick.
point stick
fast page mode (FPM)
network address translation (NAT)
Audit Policy
36. Aka customer premises equipment.
CPE
Southbridge
RJ-11
fusing
37. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.
root key
ink cartridge
strong password
magnetic mass storage
38. Data communications over the cellular telecommunications networks.
access control entry (ACE)
cellular WAN
dual inline memory module (DIMM)
ICMP
39. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have
unattended installation
IMAP
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
DDR3 SDRAM
40. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.
domain
developing
refresh rate
Emergency Repair Process
41. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.
update
Enable Boot Logging
BTX
file
42. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
Bluetooth
PPTP
customer premises equipment (CPE)
43. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.
Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack (MT-RJ) connector
floating-point unit (FPU)
Ethernet
answer file
44. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.
latency
Tablet PC
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
802.11g
45. A type of solid-state storage that is portable - about the size of a flattened thumb - and usually has a USB interface. Also called a flash drive or jump drive.
thumb drive
IP packet filtering
ASR
protocol
46. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
802.11n
Internet service provider (ISP)
ACL
47. Aka power supply.
SDRAM
system tray
power supply unit (PSU)
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
48. Aka Small Outline DIMM.
AMD
boot sequence
Advanced Technology (AT)
SODIMM
49. The portion of the chipset that controls communications between the CPU and system RAM.
beam-on-blade connector
memory controller chip (MCC)
wireless access point (WAP)
composite video
50. A connection over a wide area network.
RFI
WAN connection
Display Brightness Key
system requirements