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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka access control entry.






2. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






3. Showing consideration for others.






4. Aka Advanced Technology Attachment.






5. 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).






6. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






7. Aka electronic KVM switch.






8. The displayable number of pixels - expressed as x and y numbers - such as 1024






9. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






10. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






11. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard - promoted by Toshiba - that was defeated by the Blu-ray Disc standard as the widely accepted high-definition standard.






12. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.






13. An LCD display setting that adjusts the viewable area of the display vertically.






14. A square snap coupling for fiber-optic cable - about 2.5 mm wide - used for cable-to-cable connections or to connect cables to network devices. It latches with a push-pull action similar to audio and video jacks.






15. In reference to a memory module - the number of memory modules required to match the data bus width of the processor.






16. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.






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






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






19. A DVI mode that supports both analog and digital video signals.






20. A program file or some special data file that is part of the operating system and is very important to proper operation of the OS.






21. A power supply that converts between alternating current and direct current.






22. A circuit on a motherboard through which incoming power passes. Several voltage regulators maintain a steady voltage as demand goes up and down - with one or more voltage regulators for the various voltages required (5 volts - 12 volts - 3.3 volts -






23. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.






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. One of the two prevailing CPU manufacturers.






26. An organization that creates specifications for infrared wireless communication.






27. A method of memory error-checking that is more sophisticated than parity checking. Like parity checking - it adds an extra bit per byte. In addition - software in the system memory controller uses an algorithm to both detect and correct errors.






28. A server that manages DNS names.






29. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.






30. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






31. Aka taskbar.






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






33. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






34. The act of writing to two disk drives at the same time - creating identical drives.






35. Unsolicited e-mail.






36. Unsolicited messages sent over an instant messaging service - such as Windows Messenger.






37. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






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






39. 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






40. An installation of Windows that is not automated - where the user is required to pay attention throughout the entire process to provide information and to respond to messages. Also called a manual installation.






41. A device that converts digital signals from the broadband connection to voice for the analog phone and the analog voice signals to digital signals for the digital network.






42. Aka hyper threading.






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






44. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






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






46. Aka error-correcting code.






47. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.






48. Aka RAID 5.






49. In an operating system GUI - a tiny graphic representing an application - folder - disk - menu item - or other entity.






50. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.