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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






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






4. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






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






6. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






7. Aka serial ATA.






8. Aka customer premises equipment.






9. In fiber-optics - a single light wave passing down a cable.






10. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






11. A program used to discover a password.






12. Aka network interface card.






13. Aka interrupt request line.






14. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






15. The fine copper lines that are the electronic circuits through which power - data - and control signals travel on a circuit board.






16. A file operation in which the file or folder remains in the source location - and a duplicate is created in the target (destination) location.






17. A generic reference to a PC's serial communications port - in which the x represents the port number.






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






19. 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.






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






21. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.






22. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






23. In a low-profile PC case - a card that plugs into a motherboard to allow other cards to be inserted at a right angle to the riser card and parallel to the motherboard. Also - a single expansion card containing multiple functions - such as modem - sou






24. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






25. A connection over a wide area network.






26. In networking - the authorization to access a computer or resource on a computer. Specific permission levels include read - change - modify - etc.






27. A single-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 4.7 GB of data - or over two hours of video.






28. A tool for testing if a cable can connect properly end-to-end and to determine if a cable has a short. These tools are available for a variety of cable types.






29. Used to represent the chrominance signal in S-Video.






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






31. Program code that provides a way for someone to gain access to a computer while bypassing security. Only a person who knows how the back door works can use it - but once in - that individual has the same access as the host program to all the internal






32. The use of deceit and trickery to persuade someone to hand over money or valuables.






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






34. Aka continuity RIMM.






35. Aka digital video interface.






36. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






37. A server that manages DNS names.






38. A network connection over long distances - traditionally using phone lines or satellite communications.






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






40. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






41. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.






42. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.






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






44. At first - a terminal was not much more than a display - a keyboard - and the minimal circuitry for connecting to the mainframe. Now - a terminal can be a computer running Windows or other operating system - plus terminal client emulation software th






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






46. 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






47. Aka refresh rate.






48. A drive interface for EIDE drives that transfers data serially at speeds between 150 MBps and 300 MBps and 6 Gbps - depending on the version of the standard.






49. Aka liquid crystal display.






50. Aka Enhanced IDE.