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Comptia A + Certification
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Aka logical block address.
DMZ
LPT1
LBA
mini-notebook
2. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association whose members include Sony - 20th Century Fox - Dell - Hewlett-Packard - and many other industry leaders.
PGA2
war chalking
auditing
Blu-ray disc
3. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.
P412V
customer premises equipment (CPE)
root directory
parts grabber
4. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.
1000Base-T
MMC
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Enable Low Resolution Video
5. The role of the second EIDE drive on a PATA channel.
multi-monitor
DVD-18
heat sink
slave drive
6. A finite set of resources controlled by the operating system and critical to the use of all computer components.
read/write head
CD-ROM drive
system resources
thread
7. A set of wires used by data traveling into and out of a processor.
authorization
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
ATV12V
processor bus
8. Aka optical character recognition.
OCR
AC
troubleshooting
liquid crystal display (LCD)
9. Aka serial ATA.
surge protector
SATA
case
AMR
10. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
top-level domain (TLD)
plug and play (PnP)
watts
11. 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
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
CSU
transferring
track point
12. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters
NAT
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
passive matrix display
solid ink
13. A firewall service that inspects (or filters) each packet that enters or leaves the network - applying a set of security rules defined by a network administrator - and not allowing packets that fail inspection to pass between networks.
NTLDR
Small Outline DIMM (SODIMM)
IP packet filtering
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
14. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.
authentication
digitizer
memory
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
15. Aka solid-state storage.
reactivate
v-hold
thermal paste
solid-state drive (SSD)
16. Aka alternating current.
modem
developing
AC
second-level domain (SLD)
17. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.
file
Advanced Technology eXtended (ATX)
I/O
component video
18. A file system used by operating systems for organizing - reading - and writing optical discs.
Compact Disc File System (CDFS)
root folder
plug and play (PnP)
Audit Policy
19. The use of words - often technical and uncommon - that both parties understand in the same way.
metropolitan area network (MAN)
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
jargon
RIP
20. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.
video RAM (VRAM)
spim
driver signing
NTLDR
21. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.
secure attention sequence (SAS)
root folder
NTFS
format
22. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.
DVI-A
system requirements
DDR3
Windows Easy Transfer (WET)
23. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.
wide area network (WAN)
WEP
lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery
NLX
24. A power-usage level.
permission
cookies
Start Bar
power state
25. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.
multi-GPU solution
Device Manager
L1 cache
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
26. The filename for the System Configuration Utility - which allows you to test various scenarios for Windows startup for troubleshooting purposes.
Enable Low Resolution Video
jargon
MSCONFIG
NiCD
27. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.
permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
heat sink
pit
sidebar
28. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.
system resources
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
industry standard architecture (ISA)
multimeter
29. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.
mounted drive
value entry
patch
serial ATA (SATA)
30. Aka access control entry.
ACE
malware
video RAM (VRAM)
cleaning
31. The fine copper lines that are the electronic circuits through which power - data - and control signals travel on a circuit board.
mini-notebook
traces
digital subscriber line (DSL)
fusing lamp
32. The worldwide network that carries traditional voice traffic.
10Base-T
FAT table
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
pop-up blocker
33. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.
ad hoc mode
registered jack (RJ)
thermal paste
802.11n
34. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
DHCP Server
extension magnet
molex connector
35. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.
Bluetooth
DDR3
multifunction device (MFD)
laser beam
36. In the Windows registry - a folder that may contain one or more sets of settings as well as other keys.
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
SLD
uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
registry key
37. In the laser printing process - a wire that passes a small positive charge to paper as it travels through the printer. This positive charge attracts the negatively charged toner particles on the drum to the paper.
DVD-Data discs
nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries
ISP
transfer corona wire
38. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.
DXDIAG
electronic KVM switch
CMOS
DLP
39. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.
Small Outline RIMM (SORIMM)
luminance
PROM
mount point
40. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.
interrupt request line (IRQ)
root directory
display resolution
thread
41. The use of a biometric for authentication.
CD-ROM drive
biometric logon
display resolution
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
42. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.
extending extractor
Northbridge
radio frequency (RF)
electro-photosensitive drum
43. Aka System Information.
Program Compatibility Wizard
MSINFO32.EXE
NLX
hidden attribute
44. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.
ATX
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
flash drive
45. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
Speaker On/Off key
dial-up modem
even parity
IEEE 1394a
46. A device that records video content to disk.
MIDI
32-bit
LAN
digital video recorder (DVR)
47. Aka Small Outline DIMM.
MBR
SODIMM
10Base-T
VESA
48. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.
system bus
Media Access Control (MAC) address
control unit
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
49. Aka display.
ACPI
monitor
SODIMM
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
50. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.
DMA controller
proxy server
boot sequence
volatile