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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.






2. Any power supply that provides high voltage - such as those in laser printers and CRTs.






3. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.






4. An LCD display that accepts a digital signal. Early LCD displays accepted an analog signal and converted it to digital internally.






5. A process applied to digitally signed code to unencrypt the signature data and use the information to verify the program code was not modified since the signature was added.






6. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






7. A type of printer that uses solid - rather than liquid - ink.






8. Aka musical instrument digital interface.






9. A device that stores a large amount of information - even when it is powered off.






10. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






11. A utility for migrating data from many computers - or if you need to perform what Microsoft calls a "wipe-and-load migration" from and to the same computer. Available in Windows XP - Vista - and Windows 7.






12. The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from one point to another.






13. A large burst of electromagnetic energy - as from a nuclear explosion - that has the potential to damage communications and power lines within a large geographic area - depending on the size and location of the pulse.






14. A video mode with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024






15. Aka front side bus.






16. The area at the beginning of a disk formatted with the FAT file system. This area contains the boot record - FAT table - and root directory.






17. In a computer - pathways that power - data - and control signals travel from one component to another within the system.






18. Aka second-level domain.






19. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 3.3 millimeters thick.






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. Aka floppy disk drive.






22. Aka software firewall.






23. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






24. Aka ATA Packet Interface.






25. Aka capture card.






26. Aka communication network riser.






27. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






28. The language of Web pages. Web designers use the HTML language to create Web page code - which your Web browser converts into the pages you view on your screen.






29. Aka adapter card.






30. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






31. The protocol used by DHCP servers and clients. A DHCP server allocates IP addresses within the scope of addresses configured on the server by an administrator. DHCP clients request IP addresses and other IP configuration settings from DHCP Servers.






32. Aka master boot record.






33. Aka fast page mode.






34. An Intel standard for starting up a computer over the network - without relying on a disk-based operating system. Used to install a new operating system or run diagnostics software.






35. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.






36. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






37. In an IP packet - a value field that shows how many routers the packet can cross before being discarded.






38. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






39. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.






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






41. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that is used to troubleshoot DNS problems by querying DNS name servers and displaying the results of the queries.






42. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.






43. One of several groups that no user can create or modify. The membership of a special group is predefined - and it is available to you only when you assign permissions or rights. A few important special groups are Creator Owner - System - and Everyone






44. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






45. 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.






46. Aka Internet service provider.






47. A portable computer small enough to fit in your hand - also referred to as a "palmtop" computer. Because it is so small - a PDA does not have the functionality of a laptop or desktop computer. In other words - a typical PDA allows you to perform only






48. A term applied to a CPU - motherboard - or other components that conform to the newer 64-bit architecture. Also referred to as 64-bit.






49. The role of the first EIDE drive on a PATA channel.






50. An area under the pinned items list on the Windows XP Start menu that contains shortcuts to recently run programs.