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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A data encryption technology used for securing data transmitted over the Internet. TLS succeeded SSL.






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






3. 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.






4. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






5. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.






6. 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






7. A type of printer that transfers ink to paper by causing a print head to strike a printer ribbon containing ink against the paper.






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






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






10. A storage type in Windows that uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






11. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






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






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






14. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.






15. Aka microcode.






16. Aka Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).






17. A TCP/IP protocol developed as a solution to the dwindling number of IP addresses on the Internet and that also serves to hide IP addresses on a private network from the Internet.






18. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






19. Aka automated system recovery.






20. Aka virtual circuit.






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






22. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






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






24. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice that restores a group of registry keys containing system settings such as services and drivers. These are the last settings that worked - and you have only a narrow window of opportunity to use Last Known Good






25. Aka direct current.






26. In a laser printer - a high-intensity lamp that - when shone on a portion of the electro-photosensitive drum - removes any remaining charge on that portion of the drum.






27. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






28. One of the main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - IP manages logical addressing of network packets so routing protocols can route the packets over the network.






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






30. A private internetwork.






31. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






32. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






33. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






34. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






35. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






36. Aka v-hold.






37. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.






38. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






39. Synchronous graphics random access memory is a type of RAM used on video adapters.






40. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






41. Aka nickel-cadmium.






42. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






43. Aka motherboard.






44. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






45. A now-obsolete type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices - replaced by lithium-ion batteries.






46. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






47. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






48. Aka access control entry.






49. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.






50. Aka Domain Name Service.