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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






2. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






3. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.






4. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640






5. Aka nickel metal hydride.






6. 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 5.0 millimeters thick.






7. An input device that uses a stylus. Available as an external device - it uses touch screen technology and is usually at least the size of a sheet of paper. Also called a digitizer.






8. The use of words - often technical and uncommon - that both parties understand in the same way.






9. A device that converts DC current to AC. An inverter is required in a laptop to provide the AC current required by the display.






10. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






11. A pixel that is permanently turned on - causing the pixel to show constantly as red - green - or blue. Also called a stuck pixel.






12. Fiber-optic cable that allows only a single light wave to pass down the cable.






13. [1] On computer circuit boards - a very tiny slide that indicates two states.. [2] In a network - a network device - much like a hub - except that a switch takes an incoming signal and sends it to only the destination port - avoiding collisions and m






14. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






15. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






16. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.






17. A finite set of resources controlled by the operating system and critical to the use of all computer components.






18. 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






19. A chip that works with a serial port - converting outgoing data from parallel to serial and incoming data from serial to parallel.






20. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






21. A Windows service that allows a user to connect remotely to a computer and run the Windows desktop on the remote computer - but have the same access as if logged on to the computer and its local network.






22. 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






23. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






24. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.






25. 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.






26. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






27. A portable computer small enough to fit in your hand - also referred to as a "palmtop" computer. Because it is so small - a PDA does not have the functionality of a laptop or desktop computer. In other words - a typical PDA allows you to perform only






28. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.






29. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.






30. 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






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






32. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






33. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the printer's high-voltage power supply (HVPS) conducts electricity to the primary corona wire so it can pass the voltage on to the printer's electro-photosensitive drum.






34. A device required at both ends of a T-carrier system connection.






35. A software fix for a single problem.






36. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.






37. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






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






39. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






40. Encrypted data placed in a file to guard against tampering.






41. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






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






43. 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






44. Aka hard disk drive.






45. A drive on a computer that can play music CDs and read data CDs - but cannot write to CDs.






46. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






47. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






48. A network in which all of the computers essentially operate as both servers (providing access to shared resources) and clients (accessing those shared resources).






49. A utility in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - networks - and other objectives.






50. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.