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1. 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.






2. A password that meets certain criteria in order to be difficult to crack. One definition of a strong password is one that contains at least eight characters - includes a combination of letters - numbers - and other symbols ( _ - - - $ - and so on) an






3. An adapter card used to run a special diagnostic test on a computer as it is powering up. These tests usually go beyond those performed by the system BIOS-based POST.






4. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






5. An address that a DHCP client will assign to itself after requesting an address and failing to receive one from a DHCP server. The address it will assign is in the 169.254 /16 network - which is the range of addresses from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.






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






7. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the second channel.






8. Aka Advanced Technology.






9. In Microsoft Windows - NTFS permissions are used to specify and control which users and groups can access certain files and folders and what each user or group can do with them.






10. Aka FAT file system.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






15. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






16. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






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






18. Aka IEEE 1394.






19. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.






20. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).






21. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640






22. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






23. A compartment in a portable computer's case that holds a single media device that can be swapped with another. For instance - you may swap an optical drive - a secondary hard drive - or a floppy drive into and out of a single bay.






24. 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.






25. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.






26. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.






27. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.






28. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).






29. Both the connectors on the RDRAM memory modules and the motherboard sockets (or slots) that match them.






30. 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






31. Aka microcode.






32. An encryption technology introduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions - Windows Server 2008 - and also in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. It encrypts the entire boot volume.






33. Aka input/output.






34. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






35. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






36. In the Windows GUI - a horizontal bar normally positioned across the bottom of the desktop containing a Start button - the Quick Launch toolbar - buttons for running programs - and at the far right - the notification area. Sometimes called the Start






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






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






39. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






40. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.






41. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan






42. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






43. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






44. Aka analog modem.






45. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






46. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






47. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






48. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






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






50. A solid-state storage standard for high-capacity (2 - 4 - and 8 GB) memory cards that are tiny






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