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1. A rectangular connector with a locking clip on one side and a number designation that refers to the size rather than the number of wires.






2. Aka root key.






3. Aka Balanced Technology eXtended.






4. The type of connector used in the ExpressCard interface.






5. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.






6. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






7. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.






8. The disruption of signal transmission caused by the radiation of electrical and magnetic fields. Electric motors are a common source of EMI.






9. In router configuration - a term that is used to describe traffic that is allowed - as in allowing traffic using a certain port number through the router.






10. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






11. The code used to provide multiple language support to Windows.






12. An Intel standard for motherboards targeted to the low-end consumer market that includes built-in components - while saving space and fitting into a smaller case.






13. Slang for motherboard.






14. 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.






15. Aka Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).






16. Aka display power-management signaling.






17. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






18. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






19. A pen-sized tool that has a plunger at one end. When pressed - the plunger causes small - hooked prongs to extend from the other end of the tool for retrieving dropped objects from inside a computer.






20. Local area networking using radio waves - with the most common based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards (802.11a - 802.11b - 802.11g - and 802.11n).






21. Cable that consists of pairs of wires twisted around each other. The twists help to boost each wire's signals and make them less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).






22. A parallel interface standard that supports bidirectional communication and transfer rates of up to 2 MBps.






23. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






24. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.






25. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






26. A power supply that only accepts one input power voltage.






27. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.






28. A shared folder on a distribution server containing the source files for a remote installation.






29. The logical structure on disk that allows the operating system to save and retrieve files. Examples of file systems are FAT and NTFS. Both of these file system have different versions - such as FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - and NTFS 4.0 and NTFS 5.0.






30. Aka accelerated graphics port.






31. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.






32. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.






33. The "activity" status light on a NIC that indicates data is being transmitted.






34. A program file or some special data file that is part of the operating system and is very important to proper operation of the OS.






35. An improved version of WPA that does not support older network cards and offers both secure authentication and data encryption. It uses EAP for a variety of authentication methods






36. The generic term for a pointing stick.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. The proportion between an image's width and height. Traditional CRT monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3. Widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.






40. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.






41. 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.






42. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






43. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






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






45. Aka digital versatile disc (DVD).






46. 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






47. Aka pin grid array.






48. The process that authenticates a user and verifies the user account's level of access to a resource.






49. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






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







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