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Comptia A + Certification
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The role of the first EIDE drive on a PATA channel.
x86-64
master drive
SIMM
SVGA
2. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640
zero insertion force (ZIF) socket
Remote Desktop
ATM
VGA Mode
3. An operating system that runs on a network server and provides file sharing and access to other resources - account management - authentication - and authorization services.
subtree
network operating system (NOS)
smart phone
power supply tester
4. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.
Ultra DMA (UDMA)
FPU
Y
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
5. The hardware architecture - including the CPU - BIOS - and chipset.
ALU
MAC
computer platform
ROM
6. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.
DDR2 SDRAM
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
dead pixel
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
7. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan
recently used programs list
electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
expansion bus
MAC
8. A type of switched network used by phone companies.
frame relay
DDR2
Display Mode Key
AMR
9. Sony-Philips digital interface format
Compact Disc File System (CDFS)
cookies
S/PDIF
miniconnector
10. 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.
recently used programs list
power management
firewall
x86
11. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.
spindle
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
bus
access control
12. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is odd.
32-bit
LVDS
odd parity
MicroDIMM
13. The worldwide network that carries traditional voice traffic.
spyware
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
TrackPoint
touch screen
14. 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.
thread
flash BIOS
digitizing tablet
Ethernet
15. Aka microcode.
microprogram
file signature verification
war chalking
Display Brightness Key
16. 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.
PCI Express
LBA
system area
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
17. A utility in Windows NT for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.
EMP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Performance Monitor
expansion bus
18. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.
Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS)
emergency repair disk (ERD)
Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
19. Aka digital video interface.
SLI
PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express)
PCI Express
DVI
20. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.
DDR RAM
cluster
ExpressCard
land
21. A CPU containing four CPU cores.
firewall
quad-core CPU
repeater
optical drive
22. The early standard developed by PCMCIA for credit-card-sized devices used in laptops.
removable storage
PC Card
HTTP
8-bit high color
23. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.
FAT
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
24. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600
PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express)
super video graphics array (SVGA)
clock speed
gadget
25. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th
switch
S/PDIF
RAID 5
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
26. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.
tape drive
random access memory (RAM)
file system
expansion card
27. Aka security auditing.
auditing
ROM
Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM)
ZIF
28. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR standard. Using far less power than DDR1 - a stick of DDR2 SDRAM has 240 pins.
DDR2 SDRAM
NTLDR
APIPA
case
29. A cooling system that uses liquid to transfer heat away from components.
liquid cooling system
S-Video
video adapter card
TTL
30. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.
background process
electrostatic discharge (ESD)
POST card
PROM
31. Memory chips that use a special Rambus channel that has a data transfer rate of 800 MHz. A double channel width results in a 1.6 GHz data transfer. RDRAM sticks use special RIMM slots.
AMD
Rambus Dynamic RAM (RDRAM)
service pack
component video
32. 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
hyper threading
unattended installation
IEEE 1394b
MBR
33. One of many low-level instructions built into the control unit of a CPU. Also called a microprogram.
IPCONFIG
heat sink
dead pixel
microcode
34. The component that provides power for all components on the motherboard and internal to the PC case. Also called a power supply unit (PSU).
IP packet filtering
twisted-pair cable
secure attention sequence (SAS)
power supply
35. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.
Gigabit Ethernet
DVD-RW
vertical position
Video Electronics Standards Organization (VESA)
36. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.
dial-up
SRAM
Wi-Fi
authorization
37. Aka Media Access Control (MAC) address.
process
file signature verification
MAC
flashing
38. The Microsoft Website from which you can download updates to Windows.
SCSI
HDD
Windows Update Website
S/PDIF
39. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.
DVD-ROM
fraud
Windows Explorer
Web browser
40. A method for supporting up to 8.3 GB capacity hard drives. Both the BIOS and hard drive system must use LBA.
logical block address (LBA)
PCIe Mini Card
ARP
vertical refresh rate
41. 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.
LPT1
extending extractor
thermal compound
USB
42. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.
IPCONFIG
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)
NTFS
hot swapping
43. A name used by the Windows operating systems to identify any parallel port.
LPT
workgroup
subscription channel (SC)
DisplayPort
44. Aka logical block address.
transport layer security (TLS)
LBA
digital video interface (DVI)
Southbridge
45. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.
domain
driver signing
DVI-I
riser card
46. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
security policy
SODIMM
Display Brightness Key
47. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.
internal cache memory
Southbridge
DLP
SVGA
48. An LCD display that accepts a digital signal. Early LCD displays accepted an analog signal and converted it to digital internally.
pointing stick
LVD
toner
digital LCD display
49. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.
cleaning blade
ATX
hot spot
cellular WAN
50. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
biometric logon
authentication
prank program