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1. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to bring up a small volume control panel on the display. Using the up (?) or right (?) arrow key - the volume will increase. To decrease the volume - press the FN key and the SPEAKER VOLUME key along






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






3. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






4. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






5. Aka digital subscriber line.






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






7. A computer (or dedicated device) that sits between a private network and an untrusted network and examines all traffic in and out of the network it is protecting. It will block any traffic it recognizes as a potential threat - using a variety of tech






8. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






9. Aka front side bus.






10. In Microsoft Windows - NTFS permissions are used to specify and control which users and groups can access certain files and folders and what each user or group can do with them.






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






12. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






13. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.






14. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






15. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and measures 10.5 mm thick.






16. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






17. Aka PCIe.






18. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 3.3 millimeters thick.






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






20. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






21. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






22. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






23. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.






24. A technical standards organization.






25. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






26. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






27. A wireless data encryption standard based on the IEEE 802.11i security standard. It issues keys per-user and per-session and includes encryption key integrity checking. It uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).






28. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.






29. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the printer's high-voltage power supply (HVPS) conducts electricity to the primary corona wire so it can pass the voltage on to the printer's electro-photosensitive drum.






30. Unsolicited e-mail.






31. Aka optical character recognition.






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






33. In Windows XP - this replaces the Emergency Repair process of Windows NT and Windows 2000. ASR is available from the Windows Backup program (NTBACKUP.EXE).






34. A protocol for securing data for transmission by encrypting it.






35. The traditional wired telephone network.






36. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.






37. A method of memory error-checking that is more sophisticated than parity checking. Like parity checking - it adds an extra bit per byte. In addition - software in the system memory controller uses an algorithm to both detect and correct errors.






38. A virus that gains access to a computer by masquerading as a harmless program that a user innocently installs on the computer.






39. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.






40. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






41. 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.






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






43. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






44. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.






45. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






46. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.






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






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






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






50. A part of the NTFS file system used to store a transaction-based database - with all file accesses treated as transactions - and if a transaction is not complete - NTFS will roll back to the last successful transaction.







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