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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The practice - mostly among gamers - of modifying a computer case.






2. In regard to Windows operating systems - a version of Windows that is designed to work with a certain manufacturer's equipment.






3. In the Windows registry - a folder that may contain one or more sets of settings as well as other keys.






4. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






5. 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).






6. 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.






7. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.






8. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






9. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






10. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet.






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






12. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






13. A subpackaging of a Windows revision that contains the core OS plus a special set of features that is offered as a separate product targeted to a certain type of end user.






14. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.






15. 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






16. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.






17. Software that takes a scanned image and interprets the patterns in the image into alphanumeric characters.






18. Aka digital versatile disc (DVD).






19. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






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






21. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.






22. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.






23. A small device containing a microchip used to generate unique passwords for logging on to a computer or a network.






24. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






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






26. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






27. A server that manages DNS names.






28. 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 odd.






29. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






30. Aka Balanced Technology eXtended.






31. A fraudulent method of obtaining personal and financial information through the use of pop-ups or e-mail messages that purport to be from a legitimate organization - such as a bank - credit card company - or retailer.






32. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






33. Sony-Philips digital interface format






34. A circuit card in a PC that controls the output to the display device(s).






35. A small group of computers communicating wirelessly with one another without the use of a centralized wireless access point (WAP).






36. One of the main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - IP manages logical addressing of network packets so routing protocols can route the packets over the network.






37. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b






38. Aka RAID 5.






39. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.






40. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize up to 4 GB of address space.






41. 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.






42. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






43. A now-obsolete type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices - replaced by lithium-ion batteries.






44. Aka antistatic mat.






45. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






46. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.






47. A square snap coupling for fiber-optic cable - about 2.5 mm wide - used for cable-to-cable connections or to connect cables to network devices. It latches with a push-pull action similar to audio and video jacks.






48. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






49. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






50. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.