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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






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






3. A type of motherboard and its variants most commonly used in recent PC systems.






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






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






6. A local bus designed for video only - it provides a direct link between the processor and the video card - giving the video card direct access to main memory.






7. A memory module (stick) that installs into matching DIMM sockets found on many motherboards. The word "dual" refers to the separate pins or connections on both sides of the module and socket.






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






9. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






10. Signals broadcast through the air.






11. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






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






13. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






14. In the laser printing process - the step in which the toner on the drum is transferred to the paper.






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






16. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






17. Aka Internet service provider.






18. Two or more disks working together in one of the several RAID schemes.






19. An action - such as the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key combination or the insertion of a smart card - that clears memory of certain types of viruses before a user logs on.






20. An improved version of WPA that does not support older network cards and offers both secure authentication and data encryption. It uses EAP for a variety of authentication methods






21. Cable that consists of pairs of wires twisted around each other. The twists help to boost each wire's signals and make them less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).






22. In Windows - an Advanced Option that is only available in Windows Servers in the role of domain controllers - although it appears on the menu in non-domain controllers.






23. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






24. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






25. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






26. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






27. Aka virtual circuit.






28. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






29. 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






30. A network connection device that passes traffic between two networks - using the physical address (MAC address) of the destination device.






31. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






32. Aka digital linear tape.






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






34. 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.






35. The type of connector used in the ExpressCard interface.






36. In the domain name system - a first-level domain - which is a suffix added to a registered domain name and separated from the domain name with a "dot" (.). Among the TLDs are .com - .gov - .edu - .org - .mil - .net - .biz - many two-lettered country






37. A set of technologies that allow voice transmission over an IP network






38. Aka External Serial ATA.






39. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






40. Aka capture card.






41. A way to monitor security-related events.






42. Aka top-level domain.






43. 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.






44. 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






45. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that the video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Wind






46. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






47. Aka virtual file allocation table.






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






49. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






50. A component that you can install into a system onsite - such as memory modules - heat sinks - and CMOS batteries.