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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An optical disc created and read by a mechanism using a laser.






2. Aka World Wide Web.






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






4. Aka v-hold.






5. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






6. Windows run-line utility for testing the DirectX support. Launch this program when experiencing video problems and/or audio problems when running DirectX applications.






7. Program code that allows an operating system to control the use of a physical device.






8. Aka DDR2 SDRAM.






9. Fiber-optic cable in which multiple light waves can pass simultaneously. Usually larger in diameter than single-mode fiber; and each wave uses a certain portion of the fiber cable for transmission.






10. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






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






12. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






13. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






14. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






15. Aka zero insertion force (ZIF) socket.






16. In a low-profile PC case - a card that plugs into a motherboard to allow other cards to be inserted at a right angle to the riser card and parallel to the motherboard. Also - a single expansion card containing multiple functions - such as modem - sou






17. Aka thermal compound.






18. Aka plain-old telephone service.






19. 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






20. 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.






21. The displayable number of pixels - expressed as x and y numbers - such as 1024






22. A non-routable network protocol suite for use only in small networks.






23. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






24. Aka file allocation table.






25. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






26. Showing consideration for others.






27. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.






28. A magnetic storage device that stores data on metal platters that have a coating that holds data in the form of changes to small magnetic particles in the coating. Also called HDD.






29. Aka Advanced Technology.






30. AMD manufactures CPUs and other products - and its chief rival is Intel Corporation.






31. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






32. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






33. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






34. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






35. In reference to the Windows operating systems - one that can utilize more than 4 GB of address space. Depending on the version - 64-bit Windows can address a maximum of from 8 to 192 GB.






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






37. A modulator/demodulator device that allows computers to communicate with one another over existing phone lines.






38. Aka super video graphics array.






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






40. A standard used in laptops that is based on PCI. The biggest difference is that Mini PCI is much smaller than PCI






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






42. A printer that uses a light beam (laser) in the printing process.






43. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






44. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






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






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






47. A type of printer that uses a matrix of pins striking paper through an ink ribbon to create dots on the paper - forming alphanumeric characters and graphic images.






48. A method for supporting up to 8.3 GB capacity hard drives. Both the BIOS and hard drive system must use LBA.






49. 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).






50. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.