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Comptia A + Certification
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1. 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.
digital video recorder (DVR)
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
phishing
cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor
2. A password that meets certain criteria in order to be difficult to crack. One definition of a strong password is one that contains at least eight characters - includes a combination of letters - numbers - and other symbols ( _ - - - $ - and so on) an
strong password
Telnet
Bluetooth
cache controller
3. An adapter card used to run a special diagnostic test on a computer as it is powering up. These tests usually go beyond those performed by the system BIOS-based POST.
firewall
WINS
POST card
double-sided (DS) DVD
4. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.
metropolitan area network (MAN)
PCI
copy
ATM
5. An address that a DHCP client will assign to itself after requesting an address and failing to receive one from a DHCP server. The address it will assign is in the 169.254 /16 network - which is the range of addresses from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
PCI Express
IMAP
Automatic Private IP Address (APIPA)
6. A hard drive interface that transfers data in parallel. EIDE and ATAPI drives attach to the PATA interface.
registration
Internet
Parallel AT Attachment (PATA)
fusing rollers
7. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the second channel.
secondary master
file signature verification
Return To OS Choices menu
master drive
8. Aka Advanced Technology.
I/O
NIC
ACT
AT
9. In Microsoft Windows - NTFS permissions are used to specify and control which users and groups can access certain files and folders and what each user or group can do with them.
dot matrix printer
NTFS permissions
digitizer
DXDIAG
10. Aka FAT file system.
FAT
surge suppressor
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
direct current (DC)
11. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.
clock speed
hot spot
Enable Low Resolution Video
extension magnet
12. A round connector that gets its name from Deutsche Industrie Norm - a German standards organization. Normally a round connector with a circular or semicircle of pins.
DIN connector
Intel Corporation
network client
simultaneous multithreading (SMT)
13. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.
RF
memory controller chip (MCC)
DDR RAM
digital LCD display
14. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
FTP
CD-ROM
SODIMM
odd parity
15. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.
riser card
ATX
SDRAM
parallel port
16. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.
RJ-11
802.11b
ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
Display Brightness Key
17. A device that combines two or more devices - such as a printer - scanner - and fax machine.
clock speed
multifunction device (MFD)
extending extractor
Enable Boot Logging
18. Aka IEEE 1394.
SDRAM
ink cartridge
FireWire
POST card
19. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.
digital subscriber line (DSL)
active speaking
track point
chipset
20. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
DVD-9
flash memory
top-level domain (TLD)
HTTP
21. A video mode that most often consists of a combination of 640
DLT
extending extractor
update
VGA Mode
22. Aka Voice over IP (VoIP).
electronic KVM switch
flash BIOS
basic input/output system (BIOS)
VoIP
23. A compartment in a portable computer's case that holds a single media device that can be swapped with another. For instance - you may swap an optical drive - a secondary hard drive - or a floppy drive into and out of a single bay.
magnetic mass storage
response time
DDR2 SDRAM
media bay
24. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is even.
LPT2
jump drive
even parity
exception
25. Aka Advanced Communications Riser.
port
Southbridge
ERD
ACR
26. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.
line printer
DRAM
Post Office Protocol (POP)
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
27. An interface standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - it is used for both internal and external hard drives and optical drives as well as devices such as printers - modems - scanners - and many other peripherals.
FAT16
address bus
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
miniconnector
28. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).
amperes (amps)
virus encyclopedia
ATX
AMD
29. Both the connectors on the RDRAM memory modules and the motherboard sockets (or slots) that match them.
multifunction device (MFD)
DVD-5
version
RAMBUS Inline Memory Module (RIMM)
30. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters
metropolitan area network (MAN)
passive matrix display
IEEE 1394b
DDR
31. Aka microcode.
microprogram
DVD-9
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
video graphics array (VGA)
32. An encryption technology introduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions - Windows Server 2008 - and also in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. It encrypts the entire boot volume.
primary master
BitLocker drive encryption
systray
Enable VGA Mode
33. Aka input/output.
DisplayPort
trusted platform module (TPM)
I/O
process priority level
34. A portion of a program that can run separately from and concurrently with other portions of the program. Also called thread of execution.
optical character recognition (OCR)
NetBEUI
memory address
thread
35. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.
read/write head
flash BIOS
long filename (LFN)
flash ROM
36. In the Windows GUI - a horizontal bar normally positioned across the bottom of the desktop containing a Start button - the Quick Launch toolbar - buttons for running programs - and at the far right - the notification area. Sometimes called the Start
client/server-based network
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
system attribute
taskbar
37. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives
FAT12
CPE
SVGA
DC
38. A disc drive that uses laser technology to read and/or write to special discs.
flat panel display (FPD)
Type II
system area
optical drive
39. A parallel port mode that has the same performance as ECP but is used with parallel devices other than printers and scanners.
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
64-bit
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
power supply
40. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.
multimeter
CMOS settings
spindle
personal firewall
41. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan
expansion bus
BTX
activation
bandwidth
42. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.
local user account
basic storage
icon
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
43. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.
monitor
interrupt request line (IRQ)
Domain Name Service (DNS)
enhanced parallel port (EPP) mode
44. Aka analog modem.
DDR RAM
DPMS
network address translation (NAT)
dial-up modem
45. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.
root directory
memory controller chip (MCC)
HDMI
CrossFire
46. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.
SDRAM
thermal printer
uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
zero insertion force (ZIF) socket
47. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.
Disable Automatic Restart
LPT1
pin grid array (PGA)
Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
48. 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.
degaussing
POST
UDF
value entry
49. A KVM switch that uses software and special keyboard commands to switch among controlled computers. Also called anactive KVM switch.
surge suppressor
IEEE
electronic KVM switch
hyper threading
50. A solid-state storage standard for high-capacity (2 - 4 - and 8 GB) memory cards that are tiny
access control entry (ACE)
DLT
modding
Secure Digital (SD) Card
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