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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.






2. In the laser printing process - the step in which the toner on the drum is transferred to the paper.






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






4. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet.






5. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






6. A cooling fan mounted directly on the case - as opposed to a power supply fan - which is inside the power supply.






7. An expansion bus architecture that uses serial communications rather than the parallel communications of PCI. Also called PCI Express and PCI-E.






8. A magnetic storage device that stores data on metal platters that have a coating that holds data in the form of changes to small magnetic particles in the coating. Also called HDD.






9. Aka logical block address.






10. A DVI mode that supports both analog and digital video signals.






11. In reference to parallel ports - a mode in which the parallel device connected to the parallel port can receive data but cannot send data. CMOS settings (system settings) may refer to this mode as "Transfer only."






12. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






13. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.






14. An external serial bus standardized by the IEEE. Apple first developed it as FireWire. Other manufacturers call it i.link or Lynx. It can support up to 63 daisy-chained devices. Since the introduction of the faster update - IEEE 1394b - the original






15. A key on a laptop that - when pressed along with the FN key - changes the laptop display brightness at the hardware level. On some laptops - when this key combination is pressed - a small brightness control panel will display on the screen. Use the u






16. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






17. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).






18. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






19. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.






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






21. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.






22. A finite set of resources controlled by the operating system and critical to the use of all computer components.






23. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






24. A specialized chip that controls DMA channels.






25. A server containing source files for installing software onto client computers. The shared folder containing these files is a software distribution point.






26. 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.






27. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






28. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






29. A type of KVM switch that is controlled through a mechanical switch on the box.






30. Software that takes a scanned image and interprets the patterns in the image into alphanumeric characters.






31. In an operating system GUI - a tiny graphic representing an application - folder - disk - menu item - or other entity.






32. Aka pin grid array.






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






34. Aka external cache.






35. Aka direct current.






36. Aka Advanced Power Management.






37. A menu that opens from the Start button on the taskbar.






38. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






39. Aka nickel-cadmium.






40. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






41. 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.






42. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






43. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






44. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.






45. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






46. A cooling system that uses liquid to transfer heat away from components.






47. 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






48. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b






49. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






50. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an