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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A power-usage level.






2. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






3. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






4. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the Intel 32-bit x86 specification. Also referred to as 32-bit.






5. Aka microcode.






6. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






7. The use of words - often technical and uncommon - that both parties understand in the same way.






8. The logical structure on disk that allows the operating system to save and retrieve files. Examples of file systems are FAT and NTFS. Both of these file system have different versions - such as FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - and NTFS 4.0 and NTFS 5.0.






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. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






11. A printer that uses a light beam (laser) in the printing process.






12. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be rewritten to - and data can also be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-RW. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






13. A protocol that transfers e-mail messages between mail servers. Clients also use this protocol to send e-mail to mail servers.






14. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






15. Aka audio modem riser.






16. Aka interrupt request line.






17. Small text files a Web browser saves on the local hard drive at the request of a Website. Cookies can contain information that will be used the next time the user connects to the Website.






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






19. A round connector that gets its name from Deutsche Industrie Norm - a German standards organization. Normally a round connector with a circular or semicircle of pins.






20. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






21. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






22. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.






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






24. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






25. Aka low-voltage differential.






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






27. 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






28. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






29. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






30. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






31. Aka super video graphics array.






32. Aka automated system recovery.






33. A device found in laptops that monitors and regulates power usage. The features vary by manufacturer - but typically - they provide short-circuit protection - give "low battery" warnings - and can be configured to shut down the computer automatically






34. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






35. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






36. A utility in Windows NT for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






37. A device that records video content to disk.






38. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






39. A joke program that produces strange behavior - such as screen distortions - erratic cursor behavior - or strange icons to appear on the screen.






40. A technology used by hard drives to speed up data transfers by using DMA channels.






41. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.






42. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






43. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






44. Aka continuity RIMM.






45. 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






46. Aka PCIe.






47. A set of skills - behaviors - and attitudes to use when listening to another person.






48. The Windows Vista and Windows 7 tool for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






49. A device that in its traditional configuration as a local KVM switch connects a single keyboard - video display - and mouse to two or more computer systems - allowing the user to switch control from one computer to another.






50. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters