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1. Aka thumb drive.






2. A depressed area on an optical disc that is alternated with raised areas to be interpreted as data.






3. A component that you can install into a system onsite - such as memory modules - heat sinks - and CMOS batteries.






4. Traditionally - this term only applied to the type of device described in the definition for analog modem. Now - it is also used for the digital devices in DSL and cable data communications.






5. A security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to Windows.






6. The component that provides power for all components on the motherboard and internal to the PC case. Also called a power supply unit (PSU).






7. Aka analog modem.






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






9. The conversion of data into a special format that cannot be read by anyone unless they have a software key to convert it back into its usable form.






10. Aka access control entry.






11. A protocol used by e-mail clients for communicating with e-mail servers. This protocol is replacing the POP protocol. IMAP allows users to connect to e-mail servers and not only retrieve e-mail - which removes the messages from the server - as they c






12. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






13. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






14. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






15. A subpackaging of a Windows revision that contains the core OS plus a special set of features that is offered as a separate product targeted to a certain type of end user.






16. A term used by Microsoft for a peer-to-peer network in which each computer can be either a client or a server or both.






17. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






18. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






19. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.






20. A level of service offered by the telephone companies over a T-carrier circuit that provides full-duplex transmissions at 1.544 Mbps - carrying digital voice - data - or video signals.






21. An input device that uses a stylus. Available as an external device - it uses touch screen technology and is usually at least the size of a sheet of paper. Also called a digitizer.






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






23. Aka internal cache memory.






24. The traditional transmission system for television video signals - which combines the color and brightness information with the synchronization data into one signal. The TV circuitry then separates the two signals from the composite signal.






25. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






26. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






27. The oldest of the Wi-Fi encryption standards. It uses 64- or 128-bit encryption that is easily broken. It does not encrypt the actual data in a packet - and it does not perform user authentication on a packet.






28. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






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






30. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






31. 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






32. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.






33. Aka electronic KVM switch.






34. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.






35. A wireless mode requiring a wireless access point (WAP).






36. Aka World Wide Web.






37. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.






38. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






39. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.






40. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.






41. In Windows - one or more settings found in the Local Security Settings console.






42. A memory module (stick) that installs into matching DIMM sockets found on many motherboards. The word "dual" refers to the separate pins or connections on both sides of the module and socket.






43. Aka Ethernet.






44. Aka denial of service (DoS) attack.






45. 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.






46. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






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






48. A type of display device that includes a touch-sensitive face to accept input from the user.






49. A single-pin RCA phone jack for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and speakers.






50. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.







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