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1. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






2. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






3. A file system used by operating systems for organizing - reading - and writing optical discs.






4. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






5. A Windows utility that allows you to create tasks that run automatically at the times you select.






6. Two disk drives used for RAID 1 - in which data is written to both drives at the same time - a practice called mirroring.






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. A WAN connection that uses existing copper telephone wire for the communication circuit. To accomplish this - a DSL modem splits the existing phone line into two bands; voice transmission uses the frequencies below 4000 Hz - whereas data transmission






9. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






10. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






11. 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.






12. Aka local area network.






13. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.






14. 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.






15. Aka MSCONFIG.






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






17. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






18. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR2 standard and requires far less power - while providing almost twice the bandwidth. A stick of DDR3 SDRAM has 240 pins - but is keyed so it will not fit into a socket designed for DDR2. DDR3 SO-DIMMs have






19. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






20. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






21. The amount of data that can travel over a network at a given time.






22. Aka RAID 5.






23. A key on a laptop that - when pressed along with the FN key - changes the laptop display brightness at the hardware level. On some laptops - when this key combination is pressed - a small brightness control panel will display on the screen. Use the u






24. An LCD display characteristic that indicates the amount of time in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a single pixel to go from the active to the inactive state and back again.






25. Aka floating-point unit.






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






27. An assigned channel over which a device can send a signal to the processor to get its attention.






28. A standards organization - of which the T10 SCSI committee maintains the SCSI standard.






29. The portion of the chipset that controls communications between the CPU and system RAM.






30. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






31. 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.






32. A power supply standard that has both the 20-pin connector for the motherboard and a 4-pin 12 V connector.






33. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






34. A special modifier key on a laptop keyboard that when pressed together with certain alphanumeric keys - changes the output of the pressed key. It is often called the function key.






35. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






36. The Windows Vista and Windows 7 tool for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






37. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






38. In reference to parallel ports - a mode in which the parallel device connected to the parallel port can receive data but cannot send data. CMOS settings (system settings) may refer to this mode as "Transfer only."






39. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.






40. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






41. An extension of the SATA standard for external SATA devices - with speeds triple that of USB 2.0.






42. An external serial bus standardized by the IEEE. Apple first developed it as FireWire. Other manufacturers call it i.link or Lynx. It can support up to 63 daisy-chained devices. Since the introduction of the faster update - IEEE 1394b - the original






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






44. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.






45. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






46. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






47. An area on the top left of the Windows XP Start menu containing shortcuts to Windows Update and programs for browsing the Internet and using e-mail.






48. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






49. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






50. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 5.0 millimeters thick.







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