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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






3. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






4. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






5. Aka point-to-point protocol.






6. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






7. Aka serial ATA.






8. The Microsoft Website from which you can download updates to Windows.






9. Aka fast page mode.






10. Erasable programmable read-only memory. A ROM chip that is erasable and reprogrammable through the use of specialized software.






11. Aka continuity RIMM.






12. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






13. Also called mirroring - this RAID array type provides fault tolerance because all the data is written identically to the two drives in the mirrored set.






14. A depressed area on an optical disc that is alternated with raised areas to be interpreted as data.






15. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






16. Aka direct current.






17. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






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






19. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






20. An action - such as the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key combination or the insertion of a smart card - that clears memory of certain types of viruses before a user logs on.






21. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR standard. Using far less power than DDR1 - a stick of DDR2 SDRAM has 240 pins.






22. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






23. An early PC hard drive interface.






24. A variety of persuasion techniques used for many purposes






25. Aka Small Computer System Interface.






26. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






27. Local area networking using radio waves - with the most common based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards (802.11a - 802.11b - 802.11g - and 802.11n).






28. Aka audio modem riser.






29. Aka enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode.






30. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






31. Aka software firewall.






32. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.






33. A CRT video setting - also known at horizontal hold - that holds the image horizontally on the screen.






34. A KVM switch that uses software and special keyboard commands to switch among controlled computers. Also called anactive KVM switch.






35. Malware that hides itself from detection by antimalware programs; it is installed on a computer by someone who has privileged access to the computer.






36. Program code that provides a way for someone to gain access to a computer while bypassing security. Only a person who knows how the back door works can use it - but once in - that individual has the same access as the host program to all the internal






37. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.






38. The read-only DVD discs sold at retail stores - containing video or software and having a maximum capacity of 15.9 GB of data. This term also applies to the drives that can only read DVDs.






39. Aka World Wide Web.






40. A program installed and activated on a computer without the user's knowledge or permission. At the least - the intent is mischief - but most often the intent is to cause damage.






41. Aka thumb drive.






42. A type of printer that uses a matrix of pins striking paper through an ink ribbon to create dots on the paper - forming alphanumeric characters and graphic images.






43. A feature of HDMI that prevents people from illegally copying HD DVDs. Aka also High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).






44. 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.






45. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






46. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






47. The utility to use when doing a single data and settings transfer to a new Windows Vista computer from one running Windows XP or Windows Vista.






48. Aka Automatic Private IP Address.






49. Aka motherboard.






50. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.