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






2. 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.






3. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






4. Aka single inline memory module.






5. Aka Small Computer System Interface.






6. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






7. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






8. Aka dynamic RAM.






9. 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.






10. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).






11. Aka compact disc.






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






13. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






14. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.






15. A network in which dedicated computers called servers store data and provide print services or other capabilities to computers running the appropriate client service or services.






16. A utility that provides remote terminal emulation for connecting to computers and network devices running server software that can respond - without needing to be concerned with the actual operating system running on either system.






17. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






18. Aka power-on self-test.






19. Aka microcode.






20. Describes the VGA mode color setting that - although it can produce around 16 million different colors - can only display up to 256 different colors at a time.






21. Aka Enhanced IDE.






22. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.






23. A diagram showing the purpose of each wire in a connector.






24. 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.






25. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






26. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






27. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.






28. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.






29. 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.






30. A device that records video content to disk.






31. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






32. In the domain name system - a first-level domain - which is a suffix added to a registered domain name and separated from the domain name with a "dot" (.). Among the TLDs are .com - .gov - .edu - .org - .mil - .net - .biz - many two-lettered country






33. A device that combines two or more devices - such as a printer - scanner - and fax machine.






34. A power supply and motherboard feature that allows software to turn off a computer rather than only using a physical switch.






35. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






36. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






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






38. 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. Safe Mode also displays






39. A technology that makes 802.11n speeds possible - using multiple antennas to send and receive digital data in simultaneous radio streams that increases performance.






40. Aka radio frequency.






41. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






42. Aka hacker.






43. 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.






44. Aka Digital Light Processing.






45. A modified version of FAT12 and FAT16 used in Windows since Windows 95.






46. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the first parallel port.






47. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.






48. An expansion bus architecture that uses serial communications rather than the parallel communications of PCI. Also called PCI Express and PCI-E.






49. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






50. A slide switch on the exterior of a PC power supply used to switch between two input voltages.







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