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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A power-usage level.






2. Aka RAID 5.






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






4. Aka demilitarized zone.






5. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.






6. 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."






7. Aka motherboard.






8. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






9. A measurement of the volume of electrons - also called current. It is calculated with the formula amps = watts / volts.






10. The traditional wired telephone network.






11. Aka root key.






12. The term used for dynamic space allocation that can be formatted with a file system.






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






14. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.






15. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






16. Aka Media Access Control (MAC) address.






17. 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.






18. A technology for transferring serial data at high speeds. Also known as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






19. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.






20. A Windows program that launches Internet Explorer and connects to the Windows Update Website.






21. Aka audio modem riser.






22. Unsolicited messages sent over an instant messaging service - such as Windows Messenger.






23. A version of the FAT file system used by hard drives and some flash drives (thumb drives - etc.) - using a 32-bit file allocation table.






24. An interconnected network. The Internet is the largest example.






25. 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.






26. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






27. A socket for a PGA CPU that has a retention lever as well as contacts to match the number of pins on the CPU. The lever is used to attach the CPU to the socket in a manner that does not require force to insert or to remove the CPU.






28. Aka Small Computer System Interface.






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






30. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






31. Aka hard disk drive.






32. Aka FAT file system.






33. A type of KVM switch that controls computers over a distance that is a function of the cabling and protocols it uses. The two types of switches are local remote KVM switch and KVM over IP.






34. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






35. The practice of forcing a CPU or other computer component to run at a higher clock rate than the manufacturer intended.






36. The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from one point to another.






37. An optional toolbar you can add to the taskbar just to the right of the Start button. Shortcuts on this bar launch with a single-click.






38. The worldwide network that carries traditional voice traffic.






39. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






40. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






41. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






42. 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.






43. Aka PCIe.






44. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






45. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






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






47. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






48. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.






49. A 25-pin D-shell connector.






50. Aka channel service unit.