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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






2. Aka uniqueness database file.






3. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.






4. Aka emergency repair disk.






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






6. Aka Digital Light Processing.






7. Aka RAID 5.






8. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






9. Aka customer premises equipment.






10. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






11. A connection over a wide area network.






12. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






13. 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.






14. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






15. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






16. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.






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






18. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.






19. Aka digitizing tablet.






20. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






21. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.






22. Aka thermal compound.






23. An optical semiconductor used in small projectors and in rear-projection televisions.






24. Aka Wireless Fidelity.






25. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






26. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.






27. Aka PCIe.






28. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






29. A term used for CPU packaging that indicates that a chip has columns and rows of pins.






30. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.






31. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.






32. In a CPU - the speed at which it can potentially execute instructions - measured in millions of cycles per second






33. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.






34. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






35. Aka internal cache memory.






36. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






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






38. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.






39. Aka optical character recognition.






40. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.






41. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






42. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






43. Aka floating-point unit.






44. A utility that provides remote terminal emulation for connecting to computers and network devices running server software that can respond - without needing to be concerned with the actual operating system running on either system.






45. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk






46. Aka demilitarized zone.






47. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.






48. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






49. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.






50. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).