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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.






2. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.






3. Aka Scalable Link Interface.






4. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.






5. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






6. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."






7. A protocol used with WPA wireless encryption that was broken by hackers.






8. A technology used by hard drives to speed up data transfers by using DMA channels.






9. Aka refresh rate.






10. Two disk drives used for RAID 1 - in which data is written to both drives at the same time - a practice called mirroring.






11. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.






12. A program downloaded to a computer without the user's consent. The user unwittingly initiates the download by some simple act - such as browsing to a Website or opening an e-mail message written in HTML. Or a user may initiate a drive-by download by






13. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.






14. An organization that creates specifications for infrared wireless communication.






15. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.






16. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






17. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






18. Introduced in Windows 2000 - a user interface for Windows administration tools that is flexible and configurable.






19. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras.






20. Aka v-hold.






21. Circuitry in a PC on an adapter card - or directly on the motherboard - that controls the output from the PC to the display device.






22. Aka SCSI host adapter.






23. Aka New Low-profile eXtended.






24. 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.






25. In networks - when data can travel in either direction - but only in one direction at a time.






26. 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.






27. Unsolicited messages sent over an instant messaging service - such as Windows Messenger.






28. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.






29. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






30. Pertaining to a DVD drive or disc that can store data in a single layer of pits on each data side.






31. 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






32. A local bus designed for video only - it provides a direct link between the processor and the video card - giving the video card direct access to main memory.






33. The traditional wired telephone network.






34. 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






35. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






36. A network connection over long distances - traditionally using phone lines or satellite communications.






37. A common connector used to connect a power supply to floppy drives.






38. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






39. A circuit card in a PC that controls the output to the display device(s).






40. A category of adapter card that accepts and records video signals to a PC's hard drive. A TV tuner card is a type of capture card.






41. Aka FAT file system.






42. 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.






43. In a Wi-Fi network - the networking mode that allows peer-to-peer communications without the use of a centralized wireless hub - called a wireless access point (WAP).






44. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






45. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.






46. 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.






47. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






48. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






49. Aka microcode.






50. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024