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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka adapter card.






2. A connector commonly used for PC keyboards. It is much smaller than the original DIN connector.






3. 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.






4. A connection point on a device or computer - sometimes called a socket.






5. A small device containing a microchip used to generate unique passwords for logging on to a computer or a network.






6. Aka surge protector.






7. Showing consideration for others.






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






9. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






10. Aka file allocation table.






11. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






12. A mode for parallel ports that allows access to special features in the PC called DMA channels. This mode is approximately ten times faster than regular bidirectional mode and is designed for printers and scanners.






13. An enhanced version of PPP - which adds the ability to secure the point-to-point connection with encryption.






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






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






16. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






17. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






18. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






19. 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






20. Circuitry in a PC on an adapter card - or directly on the motherboard - that controls the output from the PC to the display device.






21. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






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






23. RAM that doubles the rate of speed at which a standard SDRAM can process data. Also called DDR and DDR1. A stick of DDR1 SDRAM has 184 pins.






24. The "activity" status light on a NIC that indicates data is being transmitted.






25. A set of wires used by data traveling into and out of a processor.






26. A utility in Windows NT for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






27. Aka network address translation.






28. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.






29. The filename for the System Configuration Utility - which allows you to test various scenarios for Windows startup for troubleshooting purposes.






30. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.






31. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






32. Aka Small Outline RIMM.






33. The default Windows file system that includes many important features - including encryption and permissions.






34. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






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






36. One or more lights (usually LEDs) on a device that indicate the device's operational status through the color of the light - by blinking or remaining steady or both.






37. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






38. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






39. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.






40. Aka S-Video.






41. 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 3.3 millimeters thick.






42. A type of printer that transfers ink to paper by causing a print head to strike a printer ribbon containing ink against the paper.






43. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






44. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






45. A file used during an unattended installation of Windows. It provides a script of responses to the questions Setup asks so the user does not have to answer them manually.






46. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.






47. Aka IEEE 1394.






48. 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).






49. 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.






50. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.