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1. Showing consideration for others.






2. A now-obsolete type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices - replaced by lithium-ion batteries.






3. A specialized type of memory used only with video adapters.






4. A disc designed to store all types of data usable by a computer. This term also refers to the drives that read and write to these discs. There are various types of DVD drives and media.






5. A technology used by hard drives to speed up data transfers by using DMA channels.






6. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.






7. A network device that is used to extend the range of a network by taking the signals received on a port from one network and regenerating (repeating) those signals to another port to transmit them on a second network.






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






9. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the first parallel port.






10. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. Safe Mode also displays






11. A tool for migrating user data and settings from one Windows computer to a computer running Windows XP.






12. A category of adapter card that accepts and records video signals to a PC's hard drive. A TV tuner card is a type of capture card.






13. A file system in which one of the basic structures is a table used for allocating space. This table is called the file allocation table (FAT).






14. 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.






15. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.






16. A specialized type of scanner that reads bar codes - which are patterns of bars of varying widths printed on labels or directly on items. The bar pattern is converted into a numeric code that is transmitted to a computer as data.






17. A group of tests - stored in the BIOS and performed as a PC boots up - to check for the presence and function of system components.






18. A way to monitor security-related events.






19. A standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments to communicate with computers and among themselves.






20. 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.






21. A part of the NTFS file system used to store a transaction-based database - with all file accesses treated as transactions - and if a transaction is not complete - NTFS will roll back to the last successful transaction.






22. A protocol for computer-to-computer (host-to-host) transfer of files over a TCP/IP network - regardless of the operating system in use.






23. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






24. Aka New Low-profile eXtended.






25. Aka top-level domain.






26. A communication service provided over a telecommunications network or computer network. A VC logically resembles a circuit while passing over a complex routed or switched network - such as the phone company's frame relay network.






27. The original digital discs created in 1995 for storing video.






28. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






29. A command-line command - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - which provides statistical information about the TCP/IP protocols and network connections involving your computer - depending on the switches you use when you enter the command.






30. In Microsoft Windows - NTFS permissions are used to specify and control which users and groups can access certain files and folders and what each user or group can do with them.






31. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice used to send debugging information about the Windows startup over a serial cable to another computer running a special program called a debugger.






32. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






33. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






34. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






35. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






36. A cable medium that transmits light pulses rather than electrical signals - so it is not susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).






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






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






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






40. A CRT video setting - also known as vertical hold - that holds the image vertically on the screen.






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






42. A DVI mode that supports both analog and digital video signals.






43. A device that combines two or more devices - such as a printer - scanner - and fax machine.






44. A type of motherboard used in older PC systems; also refers to the 1984 IBM PC AT model.






45. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






46. A database of all configuration settings in Windows.






47. Aka access control entry.






48. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






49. Aka American National Standards Institute.






50. Aka wireless access point.







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