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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. Aka SCSI host adapter.






3. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






4. The file system component in the FAT file system in which the OS creates a table that serves as a map of where files reside on disk. Also called the FAT table.






5. Any type of computer that you can easily transport and that contains an all-in-one component layout.






6. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






7. Programmable ROM. A ROM chip that can have programs added to it.






8. Aka external cache.






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






10. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






11. 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.






12. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






13. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






14. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.






15. An obsolete memory module standard that was produced in 30-pin and 72-pin sizes. Thirty-pin SIMMs are 8-bit - and 72-pin SIMMs are 32-bit.






16. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






17. A protocol that transfers e-mail messages between mail servers. Clients also use this protocol to send e-mail to mail servers.






18. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.






19. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






20. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






21. 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.






22. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






23. A sleep mode that is available on any computer that supports ACPI power management. It conserves power while saving the desktop in RAM memory in a work state. To resume - you simply press the power button - and the desktop is quickly displayed.






24. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






25. The type of connector used in the ExpressCard interface.






26. A method for supporting up to 8.3 GB capacity hard drives. Both the BIOS and hard drive system must use LBA.






27. Aka permanent virtual circuit.






28. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






29. Aka thermal compound.






30. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






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






32. A portable computer small enough to fit in your hand - also referred to as a "palmtop" computer. Because it is so small - a PDA does not have the functionality of a laptop or desktop computer. In other words - a typical PDA allows you to perform only






33. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






34. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






35. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






36. An automated software installation that does not require a person be present to respond to prompts for information.






37. Aka second-level domain.






38. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th






39. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






40. An Intel standard for starting up a computer over the network - without relying on a disk-based operating system. Used to install a new operating system or run diagnostics software.






41. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






42. A motherboard form factor introduced in 2003 by Intel as the successor to ATX.






43. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






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






45. A wireless network standard that uses the 5 GHz band.






46. 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






47. Aka video graphics array.






48. A group of tests - stored in the BIOS and performed as a PC boots up - to check for the presence and function of system components.






49. A software fix for a single problem.






50. A network device that is used to extend the range of a network by taking the signals received on a port from one network and regenerating (repeating) those signals to another port to transmit them on a second network.