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1. 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






2. A fraudulent method of obtaining personal and financial information through the use of pop-ups or e-mail messages that purport to be from a legitimate organization - such as a bank - credit card company - or retailer.






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






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






5. Slang for motherboard.






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






7. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






8. A specialized chip that controls DMA channels.






9. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.






10. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.






11. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






12. A utility that provides remote terminal emulation for connecting to computers and network devices running server software that can respond - without needing to be concerned with the actual operating system running on either system.






13. Aka floppy disk drive.






14. A multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA.






15. Aka network address translation.






16. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts






17. Aka channel service unit.






18. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






19. Aka digitizing tablet.






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






21. The IBM branded name for a pointing stick or track point.






22. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.






23. Aka Static RAM.






24. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.






25. Pertaining to a DVD drive and disc that can store data in two pitted layers on each data side - with each layer having a different reflectivity index.






26. 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.






27. A square snap coupling for fiber-optic cable - about 2.5 mm wide - used for cable-to-cable connections or to connect cables to network devices. It latches with a push-pull action similar to audio and video jacks.






28. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






29. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






30. Aka Video Electronics Standards Organization.






31. A video signaling method in which analog video information is transmitted as two or more discrete signals. Two general types of component video are RGB Video and S-Video.






32. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






33. Aka digital subscriber line.






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






35. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






36. Aka nickel metal hydride.






37. Aka Advanced Technology.






38. The process of using an oscillating magnetic field to reduce and randomize the magnetic field that builds up on the shadow mask of a CRT monitor.






39. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






40. A drive interface for EIDE drives that transfers data serially at speeds between 150 MBps and 300 MBps and 6 Gbps - depending on the version of the standard.






41. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






42. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






43. In Windows XP - this replaces the Emergency Repair process of Windows NT and Windows 2000. ASR is available from the Windows Backup program (NTBACKUP.EXE).






44. A TPM is a special microchip - installed on a motherboard - that stores passwords - keys - and digital certificates. Various services - such as BitLocker can store such security data in this chip.






45. Two disk drives used for RAID 1 - in which data is written to both drives at the same time - a practice called mirroring.






46. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






47. A component of a CPU that is responsible for all logical and mathematical operations in the system.






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






49. Traditionally - this term only applied to the type of device described in the definition for analog modem. Now - it is also used for the digital devices in DSL and cable data communications.






50. In a CPU - the speed at which it can potentially execute instructions - measured in millions of cycles per second







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