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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A device that uses a measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






2. Aka point-to-point protocol.






3. A virtual tunnel created between two endpoints over an untrusted network. The tunnel is created by encapsulating the packets within special packets for the tunnel. Other security methods are also usually applied to a VPN - such as encrypting the data






4. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






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






6. In Windows XP - this replaces the Emergency Repair process of Windows NT and Windows 2000. ASR is available from the Windows Backup program (NTBACKUP.EXE).






7. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






8. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.






9. Aka automated system recovery.






10. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






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






12. Aka security auditing.






13. 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.






14. Storage media that is removable - meaning the drive stays in place - while the media (disk - disc - or tape) is removed and replaced with another disk - disc - or tape.






15. Aka World Wide Web.






16. 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






17. A 20- or 24- pin connector that supplies power from a PC's power supply to the motherboard.






18. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






19. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






20. 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.






21. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






22. Aka v-hold.






23. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






24. Aka basic input/output system.






25. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






26. An area of the Windows taskbar used by programs and some hardware devices to display status icons. Also called thenotification area or system tray.






27. A word used to describe memory that cannot work without a steady supply of power.






28. Aka internal cache memory.






29. One or more chips in a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and RAM on the motherboard.






30. The generic term for a pointing stick.






31. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






32. A new level of an operating system with major changes to the core components.






33. Aka FAT file system.






34. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.






35. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






36. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






37. Aka motherboard.






38. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






39. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






40. A Windows GUI utility that allows an administrator to view the status of devices and install - remove - and update device drivers.






41. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






42. A Windows display setting that allows you to adjust the number of colors - or color depth - used by the display.






43. A communications system now used for data communications via satellite that usually uses microwave radio frequencies and requires a dish antenna - receiver - and transmitter.






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






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






46. Aka analog modem.






47. 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.






48. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.






49. A motherboard form factor introduced in 2003 by Intel as the successor to ATX.






50. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.