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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Any power supply that provides high voltage - such as those in laser printers and CRTs.






2. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.






3. A device that combines two or more devices - such as a printer - scanner - and fax machine.






4. A remote KVM switch that captures the keyboard - video - and mouse signals - encodes them into IP packets - and sends them over an IP network.






5. RAM that doubles the rate of speed at which a standard SDRAM can process data. Also called DDR and DDR1. A stick of DDR1 SDRAM has 184 pins.






6. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






7. An interface standard for use with DVD players - digital television (DTV) players - set-top cable or satellite service boxes - and other devices. It combines audio and video signals into an uncompressed signal and has a bandwidth of up to 5 GB/second






8. A type of printer that uses one of several technologies to apply wet ink to paper to create text or graphic printouts. The two most popular inkjet printer models are the InkJet - developed by Hewlett-Packard - and the Bubble Jet - developed by Canon.






9. An organization that creates specifications for infrared wireless communication.






10. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is even.






11. Aka compact disc.






12. Aka Scalable Link Interface.






13. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.






14. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.






15. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






16. A Windows utility that allows you to create tasks that run automatically at the times you select.






17. A CPU containing four CPU cores.






18. A file operation in which the file or folder remains in the source location - and a duplicate is created in the target (destination) location.






19. A command-line utility installed on a Windows computer with the TCP/IP protocol suite; it's used to view the IP configuration of a network connection and to perform certain administrative tasks.






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






21. Aka continuity RIMM.






22. Aka analog modem.






23. A device that in its traditional configuration as a local KVM switch connects a single keyboard - video display - and mouse to two or more computer systems - allowing the user to switch control from one computer to another.






24. Aka external cache.






25. Aka v-hold.






26. The number of colors used by a display.






27. Aka Internet Control Message Protocol.






28. 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






29. In Windows - one or more settings found in the Local Security Settings console.






30. A private internetwork.






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






32. Aka video RAM.






33. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






34. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






35. Aka systray.






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






37. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.






38. Windows run-line utility for testing the DirectX support. Launch this program when experiencing video problems and/or audio problems when running DirectX applications.






39. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.






40. 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.






41. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






42. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






43. A set of rules and practices describing how an organization protects and manages sensitive information. A security policy applies to all employees.






44. The original digital discs created in 1995 for storing video.






45. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






46. In a laser printer - a high-intensity lamp that - when shone on a portion of the electro-photosensitive drum - removes any remaining charge on that portion of the drum.






47. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






48. Aka enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode.






49. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






50. The logical structure on disk that allows the operating system to save and retrieve files. Examples of file systems are FAT and NTFS. Both of these file system have different versions - such as FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - and NTFS 4.0 and NTFS 5.0.