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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A set of behaviors for the workplace that includes how you interact with people and how you treat property.






2. A sleep mode that is available on any computer that supports ACPI power management. It conserves power while saving the desktop in RAM memory in a work state. To resume - you simply press the power button - and the desktop is quickly displayed.






3. On a cable network - the device used at the customer site for the analog/digital conversion.






4. 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






5. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






6. Aka paging file.






7. A value assigned to a process that controls the order in which the program code is executed in relation to other code.






8. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.






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






10. A PCMCIA card standard that comes in two interfaces: PCIe and USB 2.0.






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






12. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






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






14. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






15. A small device containing a microchip used to generate unique passwords for logging on to a computer or a network.






16. Aka emergency repair disk.






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






18. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






19. One or more lights (usually LEDs) on a device that indicate the device's operational status through the color of the light - by blinking or remaining steady or both.






20. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).






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






22. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






23. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






24. A rectangular connector with a locking clip on one side and a number designation that refers to the size rather than the number of wires.






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






26. A single-pin RCA phone jack for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and speakers.






27. Aka video graphics array.






28. The oldest of the Wi-Fi encryption standards. It uses 64- or 128-bit encryption that is easily broken. It does not encrypt the actual data in a packet - and it does not perform user authentication on a packet.






29. 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






30. A program that blocks browser pop-ups.






31. 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. Safe Mode also displays






32. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






33. The "activity" status light on a NIC that indicates data is being transmitted.






34. A video signaling method in which analog video information is transmitted as two or more discrete signals. Two general types of component video are RGB Video and S-Video.






35. Aka KVM switch.






36. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






37. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.






38. 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.






39. The component that provides power for all components on the motherboard and internal to the PC case. Also called a power supply unit (PSU).






40. Aka digital subscriber line.






41. Aka motherboard.






42. A registry key that exists within another key.






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. Unsolicited e-mail.






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






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






47. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






48. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.






49. Aka S-Video.






50. Microsoft's product activation program.