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Comptia A + Certification
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.
daughter card
mass storage device
client/server-based network
KVM over IP
2. Aka uniqueness database file.
UDF
response time
mainboard
FDD
3. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.
connector
personal area network (PAN)
ACPI
ASR
4. Aka emergency repair disk.
IP router
ERD
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
5. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.
boot sequence
malware
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
update
6. Aka Digital Light Processing.
MMC
error-correcting code (ECC)
DLP
troubleshooting
7. Aka RAID 5.
striping with interleave parity
memory controller chip (MCC)
ultra-portable
SCSI host adapter
8. 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
Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
registration
electro-photosensitive drum
9. Aka customer premises equipment.
CPE
mounted drive
Web browser
terminal
10. Aka distributed denial of service attack.
Basic Service Set (BSS)
video RAM (VRAM)
DDoS Attack
Advanced Technology eXtended (ATX)
11. A connection over a wide area network.
bar code reader
Bubble Jet
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
WAN connection
12. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.
CPU fan
CD-ROM drive
central processing unit (CPU)
lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery
13. An assigned address or range of addresses on a system's address bus that - together with an interrupt request line (IRQ) - allows a device to be recognized by the processor.
virtual file allocation table (VFAT)
malware
horizontal position
I/O address
14. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.
FireWire
transfer corona wire
port triggering
dead pixel
15. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Spam over Instant Messaging (spim)
OCR
heat sink
16. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Internet Explorer (IE)
system board
multi-GPU solution
17. A CRT video setting - also known at horizontal hold - that holds the image horizontally on the screen.
power-on self-test (POST)
h-hold
tact
floppy disk drive
18. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.
electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
Windows Explorer
CMOS settings
slot cover
19. Aka digitizing tablet.
graphics tablet
APM
unattended installation
EPROM
20. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.
OCR
digitizer
DVI-A
RIP
21. A security account that exists in a local security accounts database.
AMR
system board
local user account
plug and play (PnP)
22. Aka thermal compound.
thermal paste
shadow mask
digital subscriber line (DSL)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
23. An optical semiconductor used in small projectors and in rear-projection televisions.
unattended installation
ACE
digital versatile disc (DVD)
Digital Light Processing (DLP)
24. Aka Wireless Fidelity.
flash BIOS
vertical position
electro-photosensitive drum
Wi-Fi
25. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.
Preboot eXecution Environment
miniconnector
hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
slave drive
26. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.
PCI
DVD-10
central processing unit (CPU)
update
27. Aka PCIe.
active listening
PAGEFILE.SYS
XGA
PCI-E
28. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.
SMTP
Audit Policy
Infrared (IR)
DVD-10
29. A term used for CPU packaging that indicates that a chip has columns and rows of pins.
pin grid array (PGA)
LPT
mount point
VRAM
30. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.
100Base-T
APM
socket
thread
31. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.
Speaker On/Off key
background process
PGA2
ACR
32. In a CPU - the speed at which it can potentially execute instructions - measured in millions of cycles per second
ACL
WRAM
clock speed
PPP
33. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA)
NSLOOKUP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Safe Mode With Command Prompt
34. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.
system tray
CrossFire
DLT
parity
35. Aka internal cache memory.
plug and play (PnP)
universal data format (UDF)
Internet Protocol (IP)
L1 cache
36. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.
flash drive
SPGA (staggered pin grid array)
DVD-RAM
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
37. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.
AC adapter
SONET
WUXGA
Enable VGA Mode
38. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.
subscriber connector (SC)
personal area network (PAN)
FDD
CardBus
39. Aka optical character recognition.
SSL
FireWire
OCR
network client
40. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.
Remote Desktop
Emergency Repair Process
solid-state storage
default gateway
41. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.
monitor
cleaning blade
IEEE 1394a
interrupt request line (IRQ)
42. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.
WEP
solid-state drive (SSD)
Lucent connector (LC)
digital video recorder (DVR)
43. Aka floating-point unit.
microcode
FPU
malware
central processing unit (CPU)
44. 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.
32-bit
ink cartridge
dot matrix printer
Telnet
45. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk
partition type
Foreign
discretion
miniconnector
46. Aka demilitarized zone.
DMZ
Type III
active KVM switch
registration
47. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.
adapter card
connector
AMR
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
48. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.
phishing
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
troubleshooting
beam-on-blade connector
49. A reading and writing device in a floppy or hard drive that is mounted on an articulated arm that moves back and forth over the floppy disk or metal platter.
AGP
read/write head
ACR
broadband WAN
50. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).
NLX
synchronous dynamic RAM
ATV12V
SCSI ID