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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A riser card that is similar to audio modem riser (AMR) except that it is plug and play-compatible and supports LANs in addition to audio - modem - and sound.






2. Aka Advanced Power Management.






3. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






4. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






5. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.






6. A power supply and motherboard feature that allows software to turn off a computer rather than only using a physical switch.






7. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






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






9. A chip that keeps track of the date and time on a PC. Set the date and time through your operating system or in the BIOS Setup program.






10. Aka pin grid array.






11. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






12. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.






13. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






14. Aka Universal Serial Bus.






15. A magnetic mass storage device primarily used for backing up data from computers.






16. Aka emergency repair disk.






17. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.






18. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






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






20. Aka automated system recovery.






21. An installation of Windows that is not automated - where the user is required to pay attention throughout the entire process to provide information and to respond to messages. Also called a manual installation.






22. Aka v-hold.






23. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.






24. A string of characters that a user enters - along with an identifier - such as a user name - in order to be authenticated.






25. Aka security auditing.






26. A 4-pin connector that - in addition to a 20-pin connector - is part of motherboard power connector that follows the ATX 12V standard.






27. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






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






29. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






30. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).






31. Software that runs on the computers in a network and that receives services from servers.






32. 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.






33. Aka digitizing tablet.






34. In the Windows registry - the top five folders - each of which is the top of a hierarchical structure. Also called subtrees.






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






36. 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.






37. The box that houses the main computer system.






38. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






39. A utility in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - networks - and other objectives.






40. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






41. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






42. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






43. A new level of an operating system with major changes to the core components.






44. A connection over a wide area network.






45. The black box that appears around an image - such as a widescreen video when it is displayed on a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.






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






47. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






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






49. 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.






50. Slang for motherboard.