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1. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






2. A disc designed to store all types of data usable by a computer. This term also refers to the drives that read and write to these discs. There are various types of DVD drives and media.






3. An obsolete memory module standard that was produced in 30-pin and 72-pin sizes. Thirty-pin SIMMs are 8-bit - and 72-pin SIMMs are 32-bit.






4. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice that restores a group of registry keys containing system settings such as services and drivers. These are the last settings that worked - and you have only a narrow window of opportunity to use Last Known Good






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






6. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.






7. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






8. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).






9. Aka Automatic Private IP Address.






10. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.






11. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data






12. The traditional wired telephone network.






13. Aka Advanced Power Management.






14. An automated software installation that does not require a person be present to respond to prompts for information.






15. A device found in laptops that monitors and regulates power usage. The features vary by manufacturer - but typically - they provide short-circuit protection - give "low battery" warnings - and can be configured to shut down the computer automatically






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






17. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






18. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






19. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






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. Aka optical character recognition.






22. A security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to Windows.






23. Aka Balanced Technology eXtended.






24. Aka fast page mode.






25. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize more than 4 GB of address space. Depending on the version - 64-bit Windows can address a maximum of from 8 to 192 GB.






26. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.






27. A group of features in the system BIOS - the chipset - the operating system - device drivers - and the individual components that enable efficient use of power in a computer.






28. Aka thumb drive.






29. A circuit on a motherboard through which incoming power passes. Several voltage regulators maintain a steady voltage as demand goes up and down - with one or more voltage regulators for the various voltages required (5 volts - 12 volts - 3.3 volts -






30. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






31. Aka paging file.






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






33. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.






34. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the Intel 32-bit x86 specification. Also referred to as 32-bit.






35. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






36. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






37. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.






38. Threats that are not truly malicious code - but can have indirect negative effects - such as decreasing performance or using up bandwidth. Grayware includes spyware - adware - spam - and spim.






39. A digital display interface standard developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association that supports both video and audio signals - contains HDCP copy protection - and is unique because it is royalty-free to manufacturers.






40. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






41. Aka file allocation table.






42. Aka super video graphics array.






43. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






44. A Windows display setting that allows you to adjust the number of colors - or color depth - used by the display.






45. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.






46. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






47. In an IP configuration - the address of the local router that acts as a gateway from the local network to other IP networks.






48. Aka cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor.






49. 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.






50. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.







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