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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A software fix for a single problem.






2. 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.






3. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






4. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.






5. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.






6. Aka communication network riser.






7. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.






8. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras - which often use CompactFlash.






9. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






10. Aka liquid crystal display.






11. On a cable network - the device used at the customer site for the analog/digital conversion.






12. 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






13. Aka denial of service (DoS) attack.






14. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






15. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






16. 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






17. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






18. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






19. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






20. A CRT video setting - also known as the vertical refresh rate - that controls the rate per second at which an image appears on the tube.






21. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






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






23. Aka network address translation.






24. The chunks into which the TCP protocol packages data. In addition to the data - each datagram contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the chunks of data into the original messag






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






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






27. Aka World Wide Web.






28. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize more than 4 GB of address space. Depending on the version - 64-bit Windows can address a maximum of from 8 to 192 GB.






29. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






30. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






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






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






33. The early standard developed by PCMCIA for credit-card-sized devices used in laptops.






34. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association whose members include Sony - 20th Century Fox - Dell - Hewlett-Packard - and many other industry leaders.






35. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






36. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.






37. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is even.






38. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.






39. 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.






40. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






41. A feature of HDMI that prevents people from illegally copying HD DVDs. Aka also High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).






42. A type of DIMM memory module used in laptops.






43. A RAM module designed for subcompact and laptop computers. It is half the size of a SoDIMM module.






44. A technology for LCD displays in which transistors are positioned at each pixel.






45. An arrangement of pins on a processor in which the pins are offset in a way that allows for a higher pin density than PGA.






46. A password that meets certain criteria in order to be difficult to crack. One definition of a strong password is one that contains at least eight characters - includes a combination of letters - numbers - and other symbols ( _ - - - $ - and so on) an






47. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy






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






49. In the laser printing process - the stage in which the image is removed from the photosensitive drum so it can accept the next image.






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