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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






2. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






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






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






5. A device that converts DC current to AC. An inverter is required in a laptop to provide the AC current required by the display.






6. In a laser printer - a wire that stretches across the printer's drum - not touching it - but positioned very close to the drum's surface so it can pass high voltage to the drum.






7. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






8. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






9. In an IP configuration - the address of the local router that acts as a gateway from the local network to other IP networks.






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






11. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.






12. 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.






13. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






14. A printer that uses a light beam (laser) in the printing process.






15. A network connection over long distances - traditionally using phone lines or satellite communications.






16. In router configuration - a term that is used to describe traffic that is allowed - as in allowing traffic using a certain port number through the router.






17. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






18. Aka secure socket layer.






19. Aka System Information.






20. A way to monitor security-related events.






21. 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.






22. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






23. The portion of the chipset that controls communications between the CPU and system RAM.






24. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






25. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.






26. Aka digitizing tablet.






27. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






28. Aka thread.






29. Aka PCIe.






30. A number that identifies a device on a SCSI chain.






31. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.






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






33. 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.






34. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.






35. 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






36. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






37. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






38. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.






39. Device that stores digital data on magnetized media - such as floppy disks - the metal platters in hard disk drives - and magnetic tape media used in tape drives.






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 paging file.






42. A joke program that produces strange behavior - such as screen distortions - erratic cursor behavior - or strange icons to appear on the screen.






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






44. A physical area where a Wi-Fi network connects to the Internet.






45. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






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






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






48. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the first parallel port.






49. 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.






50. A cooling system that uses liquid to transfer heat away from components.