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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka floating-point unit.






2. A level of service offered by the telephone companies over a T-carrier circuit that provides full-duplex transmissions at 1.544 Mbps - carrying digital voice - data - or video signals.






3. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.






4. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






5. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).






6. Aka Advanced Technology Attachment.






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






8. Aka front side bus.






9. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






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






11. The proportion between an image's width and height. Traditional CRT monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3. Widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.






12. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






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






14. Aka software firewall.






15. 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.






16. An Advanced Options menu choice that creates a log of the Windows startup in a file named NTBTLOG.TXT and saved in thesystemroot folder (normally C:Windows).






17. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






18. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.






19. The Microsoft Website from which you can download updates to Windows.






20. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.






21. A RAID array in which every time data is written to disk - a portion (block) is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across the member disks. RAID 0 uses the total disk space in the array for storage - without protecting the dat






22. Aka digital video interface.






23. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






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






25. A term used by Microsoft for a peer-to-peer network in which each computer can be either a client or a server or both.






26. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






27. A server that manages DNS names.






28. 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.






29. A registry key that exists within another key.






30. The signal in a television transmission that contains the brightness of the image.






31. A set of rules and practices describing how an organization protects and manages sensitive information. A security policy applies to all employees.






32. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.






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






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






35. A table on each file and folder in the NTFS file system that contains one or more access control entries.






36. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






37. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.






38. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






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






40. [1] A device that is the central connecting point of a LAN. A hub is little more than a multiport repeater taking incoming signals on one port and repeating them to all other ports. Ethernet hubs have been largely replaced by Ethernet switches.. [2]






41. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






42. In the laser printer - the heated rollers that fuse the toner to the paper.






43. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






44. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






45. Aka motherboard.






46. A protocol used by e-mail clients for communicating with e-mail servers. This protocol is replacing the POP protocol. IMAP allows users to connect to e-mail servers and not only retrieve e-mail - which removes the messages from the server - as they c






47. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.






48. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






49. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras.






50. Also called mirroring - this RAID array type provides fault tolerance because all the data is written identically to the two drives in the mirrored set.