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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka musical instrument digital interface.






2. In Windows Vista - a vertical bar found by default on the right side of the desktop. Here - you will find gadgets and mini-programs.






3. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






4. Aka digital subscriber line.






5. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras.






6. 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






7. A word used to describe memory that cannot work without a steady supply of power.






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






9. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






10. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






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






12. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






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






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






15. A finite set of resources controlled by the operating system and critical to the use of all computer components.






16. A cooling fan mounted directly on the case - as opposed to a power supply fan - which is inside the power supply.






17. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.






18. A digital display interface standard developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association that supports both video and audio signals - contains HDCP copy protection - and is unique because it is royalty-free to manufacturers.






19. The logical structure on disk that allows the operating system to save and retrieve files. Examples of file systems are FAT and NTFS. Both of these file system have different versions - such as FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - and NTFS 4.0 and NTFS 5.0.






20. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).






21. A connector used to attach coaxial cables to computers and network equipment. Origin of the term may be "Bayonet-Neill-Concelman" or "British Naval Connector."






22. The traditional transmission system for television video signals - which combines the color and brightness information with the synchronization data into one signal. The TV circuitry then separates the two signals from the composite signal.






23. The traditional wired telephone network.






24. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






25. A technology that makes 802.11n speeds possible - using multiple antennas to send and receive digital data in simultaneous radio streams that increases performance.






26. A disk that uses basic storage - which means that it uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






27. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






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






29. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






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






31. Aka RAID 5.






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






33. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






34. A device installed at the end of a SCSI chain to absorb signals so they do not bounce back along the cable.






35. The practice - mostly among gamers - of modifying a computer case.






36. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






37. 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.






38. The sudden and uncontrolled movement of electricity from an object with a greater charge to one with a lesser charge. Also called static electricity.






39. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).






40. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






41. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.






42. Sony-Philips digital interface format






43. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.






44. Aka Wireless Fidelity.






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






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






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






48. In the laser printing process - the step in which the laser beam creates a negative of the image that will eventually appear on the printout. Each place that the laser beam touches loses most of its charge - creating an image - whereas the rest of th






49. Aka radio frequency.






50. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.