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Comptia A + Certification

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






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






3. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






4. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.






5. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






6. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






7. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.






8. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






9. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






10. 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.






11. A RAID array in which every time data is written to disk - a portion (block) is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across the member disks. RAID 0 uses the total disk space in the array for storage - without protecting the dat






12. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.






13. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






14. An LCD display characteristic that indicates the amount of time in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a single pixel to go from the active to the inactive state and back again.






15. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.






16. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






17. Aka display power-management signaling.






18. A string of characters that a user enters - along with an identifier - such as a user name - in order to be authenticated.






19. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






20. A file used with a scripted unattended installation along with an answer file. The UDF file provides settings that are unique for each computer.






21. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






22. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






23. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






24. An operating system that runs on a network server and provides file sharing and access to other resources - account management - authentication - and authorization services.






25. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






26. A local bus designed for video only - it provides a direct link between the processor and the video card - giving the video card direct access to main memory.






27. Aka RAID 5.






28. The wireless nodes (including the WAP) communicating together in infrastructure mode.






29. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras - which often use CompactFlash.






30. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






31. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






32. A printer that includes one or more other functions - such as a scanner and fax machine.






33. A small group of computers communicating wirelessly with one another without the use of a centralized wireless access point (WAP).






34. A set of wires used by data traveling into and out of a processor.






35. Aka software firewall.






36. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






37. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






38. An assigned channel over which a device can send a signal to the processor to get its attention.






39. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






40. Synchronous graphics random access memory is a type of RAM used on video adapters.






41. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.






42. A cooling fan located on a CPU.






43. A protocol used with WPA wireless encryption that was broken by hackers.






44. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






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






46. A registry key that exists within another key.






47. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.






48. An installation of Windows that is not automated - where the user is required to pay attention throughout the entire process to provide information and to respond to messages. Also called a manual installation.






49. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.






50. The connecting point of a mounted drive to a folder on an NTFS volume.