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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






2. A set of skills - behaviors - and attitudes to use when listening to another person.






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






4. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.






5. Aka random access memory.






6. The utility to use when doing a single data and settings transfer to a new Windows Vista computer from one running Windows XP or Windows Vista.






7. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






8. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






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






10. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






11. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






12. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






13. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.






14. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






15. A device used to scan smart cards.






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






17. A type of power supply that converts AC power to voltages needed for a device. AC adapters are generally used for portable PC systems and other devices.






18. Also called mirroring - this RAID array type provides fault tolerance because all the data is written identically to the two drives in the mirrored set.






19. 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.






20. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






21. A service on a laptop that configures a card after socket services has recognized it.






22. In a laser printer - a metal drum with an electro-photosensitive coating to which a charge can be applied by a laser beam.






23. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.






24. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






25. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






26. A mode for parallel ports that allows access to special features in the PC called DMA channels. This mode is approximately ten times faster than regular bidirectional mode and is designed for printers and scanners.






27. A dark spot on an LCD screen caused when a transistor is permanently off.






28. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






29. In the laser printing process - this is the step in which the cover on the printer's toner cartridge is opened and the toner particles are attracted to the relatively less negatively charged areas of the drum.






30. Aka System Information.






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






32. A device installed at the end of a SCSI chain to absorb signals so they do not bounce back along the cable.






33. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






34. 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






35. A video signaling method in which analog video information is transmitted as two or more discrete signals. Two general types of component video are RGB Video and S-Video.






36. A program installed and activated on a computer without the user's knowledge or permission. At the least - the intent is mischief - but most often the intent is to cause damage.






37. Aka boot record.






38. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






39. In a CPU - special memory that resides outside the CPU's core and is used to temporarily store instructions and data in order to increase the processing speed. Also called Level 2 (L2) cache and Level 3 (L3) cache - depending on the design of the CPU






40. Aka accelerated graphics port.






41. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo






42. A file system in which one of the basic structures is a table used for allocating space. This table is called the file allocation table (FAT).






43. A network name used to identify a wireless network. Consisting of up to 32 characters - the SSID travels with the messages on the wireless network. All of the wireless devices on a WLAN must use the same SSID in order to communicate.






44. Aka root key.






45. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.






46. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.






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






48. A CPU containing four CPU cores.






49. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






50. A TCP/IP protocol developed as a solution to the dwindling number of IP addresses on the Internet and that also serves to hide IP addresses on a private network from the Internet.