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Comptia A + Certification

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.






2. Two or more disks working together in one of the several RAID schemes.






3. A protocol used with WPA wireless encryption that was broken by hackers.






4. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






5. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.






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






7. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






8. Aka digital linear tape.






9. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






10. A device used to scan smart cards.






11. Aka process priority level.






12. A 4-pin connector that - in addition to a 20-pin connector - is part of motherboard power connector that follows the ATX 12V standard.






13. 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.






14. A primary partition that is marked for use by the system during startup. Windows operating systems can only be booted from an active partition.






15. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






16. Video RAM memory that uses a technique for using video RAM to perform Windows-specific functions to speed up the OS.






17. A set of behaviors including active listening and active speaking that shows you are fully engaged in the conversation and encourages the other person to also communicate in a positive manner.






18. 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).






19. An address that a DHCP client will assign to itself after requesting an address and failing to receive one from a DHCP server. The address it will assign is in the 169.254 /16 network - which is the range of addresses from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.






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






21. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan






22. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






23. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






24. Aka SCSI host adapter.






25. A virus that is self-replicating.






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






27. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






28. A table on each file and folder in the NTFS file system that contains one or more access control entries.






29. A file format for movie DVDs.






30. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






31. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






32. Aka customer premises equipment.






33. A plug designed for testing a specific port type (e.g. - serial - parallel - or USB). The plug does not connect to a cable but reroutes the sending pins to the receiving pins. Using special software on the computer - a loopback test is performed in w






34. Aka World Wide Web.






35. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






36. 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.






37. A cooling fan mounted directly on the case - as opposed to a power supply fan - which is inside the power supply.






38. The number of colors used by a display.






39. Aka network interface card.






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






41. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






42. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






43. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts






44. A version of Windows Vista that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






45. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






46. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.






47. Aka internal cache memory.






48. Software that takes a scanned image and interprets the patterns in the image into alphanumeric characters.






49. A type of printer that transfers ink to paper by causing a print head to strike a printer ribbon containing ink against the paper.






50. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.