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Comptia A + Certification
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1. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.
emergency repair disk (ERD)
satellite communications
luminance
WINS
2. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.
arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
PCIe Mini Card
fraud
Lucent connector (LC)
3. 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
network interface card (NIC)
passive matrix display
pop-up blocker
nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries
4. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
thread
impact printer
update
5. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.
extension magnet
Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack (MT-RJ) connector
read/write head
ANSI
6. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.
CD-R (CD-Record)
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
pixel
7. Aka External Serial ATA.
eSATA
SCSI ID
IEC-320 connector
software firewall
8. One of the main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - IP manages logical addressing of network packets so routing protocols can route the packets over the network.
Internet Protocol (IP)
CD-R (CD-Record)
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
CPU
9. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.
Trojan horse
background process
NiCD
RAID 1
10. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.
USB
plug and play (PnP)
grounding mat
DDR SDRAM
11. A Windows sleep mode that uses hard drive space to save all the programs and data that are in memory at the time you choose this mode. The computer then completely shuts down and requires no power while it is hibernating.
PC Card
parity
802.11g
hibernate
12. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.
Quick Launch bar
DDR3
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
System Monitor
13. A motherboard form factor introduced in 2003 by Intel as the successor to ATX.
Standby
active partition
Balanced Technology eXtended
h-hold
14. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.
local user account
file
TRACERT
LPT2
15. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.
switch
sector translation
biometric
SMTP
16. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b
discretion
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
permanent virtual circuit (PVC)
router
17. 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.
digital video recorder (DVR)
erasure lamp
encryption
zero insertion force (ZIF) socket
18. 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
vertical position
time to live (TTL)
DC Controller
loopback plug
19. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.
communication network riser (CNR)
ISDN
contrast ratio
surge suppressor
20. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.
laser beam
dynamic storage
100Base-T
LCD
21. A DVD of any type that can contain data on only one side.
capture card
copy
system file
single-sided (SS) DVD
22. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.
vertical position
dial-up
fusing
DDR2 SDRAM
23. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.
mounted drive
point stick
authorization
SCSI
24. Aka continuity RIMM.
primary corona wire
CRIMM
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
hot-swappable drive
25. Aka channel service unit.
single inline memory module (SIMM)
DVD-10
CSU
active partition
26. A strap designed to discharge static electricity from your body. One end attaches to the wrist - whereas the other end attaches to a grounded object.
PGA
long filename (LFN)
front side bus (FSB)
antistatic wrist strap
27. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.
master file table (MFT)
RDRAM
port triggering
x86
28. Aka capture card.
NIC
emergency repair disk (ERD)
TV tuner card
InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
29. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.
Disable Automatic Restart
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
Service Set ID (SSID)
WAP
30. The first type of RAM available. It is very fast - compared to DRAM - but also very expensive.
rootkit
Static RAM (SRAM)
Start Bar
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
31. Wide-ultra-extended graphics array
back door
BitLocker drive encryption
WUXGA
Extended Video Graphics Array (EVGA)
32. A virus that is self-replicating.
worm
value entry
cleaning blade
code signing
33. The former name of the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface standard.
war chalking
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)
expansion card
34. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
graphical processing unit (GPU)
SLI
EVGA
35. A way to monitor security-related events.
security auditing
solid ink
toner
volume
36. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.
MicroDIMM
VFAT
T1
TCP/IP
37. A Web browser created by Microsoft.
DVD+R
Internet Explorer (IE)
VFAT
IEC-320 connector
38. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.
solid ink
authentication
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
registry
39. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.
projector
POST
optical character recognition (OCR)
SDRAM
40. A pointing device built into some laptop keyboards. It appears to be a very tiny joystick-type button that barely protrudes above the level of the keys.
pointing stick
inkjet
NAT
math coprocessor
41. A power supply that only accepts one input power voltage.
power supply unit (PSU)
fixed input power supply
digitizer
response time
42. An early PC hard drive interface.
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
VGA Mode
customer premises equipment (CPE)
straight-tip (ST) connector
43. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.
master drive
heat sink
wide area network (WAN)
surge protector
44. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.
system attribute
Digital Light Processing (DLP)
Mini PCI
flash memory
45. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.
dynamic storage
primary master
Southbridge
DVD-RAM
46. A technology for transferring serial data at high speeds. Also known as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).
low-voltage differential (LVD)
fusing
Control Panel
nickel-cadmium (NiCD)
47. An organization that created several PC standards - including the VGA connector.
digital linear tape (DLT)
loopback plug
Video Electronics Standards Organization (VESA)
display resolution
48. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.
Digital Light Processing (DLP)
straight-tip (ST) connector
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
graphics tablet
49. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
FAT16
NetBIOS
channel service unit (CSU)
50. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.
DMZ
Post Office Protocol (POP)
exception
IDE
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