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






2. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






3. Aka thermal compound.






4. A category of adapter card that accepts and records video signals to a PC's hard drive. A TV tuner card is a type of capture card.






5. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.






6. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






7. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






8. Aka low-voltage differential.






9. The use of a biometric for authentication.






10. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






11. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






12. 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.






13. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






14. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.






15. Aka wireless access point.






16. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.






17. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.






18. 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






19. 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.






20. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






21. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






22. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.






23. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.






24. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






25. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






26. A file used during an unattended installation of Windows. It provides a script of responses to the questions Setup asks so the user does not have to answer them manually.






27. A solid-state storage standard for high-capacity (2 - 4 - and 8 GB) memory cards that are tiny






28. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.






29. In power supplies - the amount of wattage the power supply can handle.






30. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.






31. Aka Scalable Link Interface.






32. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.






33. Aka musical instrument digital interface.






34. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.






35. Client software for browsing and accessing the content on the World Wide Web. Examples include Internet Explorer and Firefox.






36. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.






37. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






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






39. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






40. To renew a product activation - required when the activation program discovers significant changes in a computer or the activated product has been installed on a second computer.






41. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.






42. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.






43. Aka systray.






44. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. It also displays in low






45. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






46. The third version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it is a departure from the old standards in that it uses Category 5e twisted pair cable with RJ-45 connectors - combining Ethernet and FireWire.






47. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






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






49. 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.






50. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.







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