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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka process priority level.






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






3. 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.






4. Also called striping with distributed parity or striping with interleave parity - this RAID method involves a set of disks in which every time data is written to disk - a portion is written to each disk in turn - creating a "stripe" of data across th






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






6. 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.






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






8. A device required at both ends of a T-carrier system connection.






9. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






10. A file used by Windows for virtual memory. Also called the swap file. The actual filename in Windows is PAGEFILE.SYS.






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






12. A standards organization - of which the T10 SCSI committee maintains the SCSI standard.






13. A magnetic storage device that contains a thin internal plastic disk - capable of receiving magnetic charges contained in the thin magnetic coating on the disk.






14. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






15. The type of electrical current delivered by a battery in which the electrons flow in only one direction.






16. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the first channel.






17. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






18. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.






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






20. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.






21. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.






22. A number that identifies a device on a SCSI chain.






23. Aka demilitarized zone.






24. A cooling system that uses liquid to transfer heat away from components.






25. A file used with a scripted unattended installation along with an answer file. The UDF file provides settings that are unique for each computer.






26. 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.






27. Aka file allocation table.






28. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.






29. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






30. Aka arithmetic logic unit.






31. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association whose members include Sony - 20th Century Fox - Dell - Hewlett-Packard - and many other industry leaders.






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






33. A display device that uses liquid crystals to display images.






34. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






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






36. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






37. Aka virtual file allocation table.






38. A wireless data encryption standard based on the IEEE 802.11i security standard. It issues keys per-user and per-session and includes encryption key integrity checking. It uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).






39. A protocol used with WPA wireless encryption that was broken by hackers.






40. An internal bus in a CPU that connects it to memory and video.






41. A marriage of SCSI and Serial ATA - this uses a serial interface to a SCSI bus.






42. Aka hard disk drive.






43. A type of printer that uses one of several technologies to apply wet ink to paper to create text or graphic printouts. The two most popular inkjet printer models are the InkJet - developed by Hewlett-Packard - and the Bubble Jet - developed by Canon.






44. An interface standard for use with DVD players - digital television (DTV) players - set-top cable or satellite service boxes - and other devices. It combines audio and video signals into an uncompressed signal and has a bandwidth of up to 5 GB/second






45. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






46. 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.






47. Local area networking using radio waves that includes several implementations based on the IEEE 802.11 group of standards.






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






49. Audio connectors that use a 1/8" single pin plug.






50. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.