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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A small cassette containing an ink reservoir used to provide the medium for certain printers. An ink cartridge will only fit a certain model printer.






2. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640






3. The role of the first EIDE drive on a PATA channel.






4. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






5. A specialized device for testing a power supply unit that comes with connectors compatible with the output connectors on a standard power supply.






6. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.






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






12. A video interface - also called Super Video - that transmits video using two signals






13. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






14. A riser card that is similar to audio modem riser (AMR) except that it is plug and play-compatible and supports LANs in addition to audio - modem - and sound.






15. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






16. Fiber-optic cable in which multiple light waves can pass simultaneously. Usually larger in diameter than single-mode fiber; and each wave uses a certain portion of the fiber cable for transmission.






17. Aka radio frequency.






18. A round connector that gets its name from Deutsche Industrie Norm - a German standards organization. Normally a round connector with a circular or semicircle of pins.






19. 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






20. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.






21. Unsolicited e-mail.






22. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






23. Aka access control entry.






24. Aka central processing unit.






25. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






26. The bus within a CPU that connects the CPU to external components.






27. Aka virtual circuit.






28. Aka taskbar.






29. An Advanced Options menu choice that simply causes Windows to restart normally (if it can).






30. Memory locations within a CPU that is used as a scratch pad for calculations. Modern CPUs have dedicated registers for specific functions and general-purpose registers for multiple purposes.






31. A memory module (stick) that installs into matching DIMM sockets found on many motherboards. The word "dual" refers to the separate pins or connections on both sides of the module and socket.






32. Aka electronic KVM switch.






33. A processor on a graphics adapter used to render graphics images for the display - saving the CPU for other functions.






34. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






35. Aka pointing stick.






36. Aka customer premises equipment.






37. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.






38. Data communications over the cellular telecommunications networks.






39. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have






40. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.






41. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.






42. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






43. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.






44. 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.






45. A type of solid-state storage that is portable - about the size of a flattened thumb - and usually has a USB interface. Also called a flash drive or jump drive.






46. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.






47. Aka power supply.






48. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






49. The portion of the chipset that controls communications between the CPU and system RAM.






50. A connection over a wide area network.