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1. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






2. Aka motherboard.






3. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






4. The second version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it supports speeds up to 3.2 Gbps and distances of up to 100 meters.






5. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






6. 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.






7. Aka PCIe.






8. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






9. Aka front side bus.






10. A device that stores a large amount of information - even when it is powered off.






11. In fiber-optics - a single light wave passing down a cable.






12. Aka wireless access point.






13. A feature of HDMI that prevents people from illegally copying HD DVDs. Aka also High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).






14. Aka RAID 5.






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






16. A command-line tool installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used for testing communications between two hosts.






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






18. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






19. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






20. A special modifier key on a laptop keyboard that when pressed together with certain alphanumeric keys - changes the output of the pressed key. It is often called the function key.






21. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






22. Aka thermal compound.






23. A drive that can be safely installed and removed while a computer is up and running without damaging the data stored on the drive.






24. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






25. 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






26. A processor packaging that uses pads on the processor that come in contact with pins in the socket on the motherboard - permitting a higher density than possible with PGA.






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






28. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






32. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.






33. 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.






34. An improved version of WPA that does not support older network cards and offers both secure authentication and data encryption. It uses EAP for a variety of authentication methods






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






36. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






37. A standards organization - of which the T10 SCSI committee maintains the SCSI standard.






38. 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






39. An LCD technology based on thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. An active matrix display has a transistor at every pixel - which enables much quicker display changes than passive matrix displays and produces a display quality comparable to a CRT.






40. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






41. Aka solid-state storage.






42. Aka floating-point unit.






43. Aka direct current.






44. A software fix for a single problem.






45. A pen-sized tool that has a plunger at one end. When pressed - the plunger causes small - hooked prongs to extend from the other end of the tool for retrieving dropped objects from inside a computer.






46. In the laser printing process - a wire that passes a small positive charge to paper as it travels through the printer. This positive charge attracts the negatively charged toner particles on the drum to the paper.






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






48. An obsolete video standard introduced with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980s. VGA had a maximum resolution of 720






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






50. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.







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