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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The appropriate responses that you make during a conversation.






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






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 secure socket layer.






5. A computer (or dedicated device) that sits between a private network and an untrusted network and examines all traffic in and out of the network it is protecting. It will block any traffic it recognizes as a potential threat - using a variety of tech






6. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






7. The use of a biometric for authentication.






8. A laptop in which the display is an integrated digitizer.






9. A Windows Advanced Options menu choice that restores a group of registry keys containing system settings such as services and drivers. These are the last settings that worked - and you have only a narrow window of opportunity to use Last Known Good






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






11. Aka digital video interface.






12. In an IP configuration - the address of the local router that acts as a gateway from the local network to other IP networks.






13. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






14. Aka thumb drive.






15. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






16. Aka capture card.






17. 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.






18. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






19. Storage media that is removable - meaning the drive stays in place - while the media (disk - disc - or tape) is removed and replaced with another disk - disc - or tape.






20. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






21. A type of switched network used by phone companies.






22. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






23. Another name for a motherboard in a laptop.






24. A utility in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - networks - and other objectives.






25. Describes the VGA mode color setting that - although it can produce around 16 million different colors - can only display up to 256 different colors at a time.






26. The moving of data from one storage device to another.






27. Aka top-level domain.






28. Aka external cache.






29. 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.






30. A misnomer - referring to the BIOS settings that are stored in a CMOS chip.






31. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






32. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to once - but data cannot be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






33. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






34. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






35. An Advanced Options menu choice that creates a log of the Windows startup in a file named NTBTLOG.TXT and saved in thesystemroot folder (normally C:Windows).






36. Aka hacker.






37. Aka video RAM.






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






39. The utility to use when doing a single data and settings transfer to a new Windows Vista computer from one running Windows XP or Windows Vista.






40. Aka motherboard.






41. A socket for a PGA CPU that has a retention lever as well as contacts to match the number of pins on the CPU. The lever is used to attach the CPU to the socket in a manner that does not require force to insert or to remove the CPU.






42. An external serial bus standardized by the IEEE. Apple first developed it as FireWire. Other manufacturers call it i.link or Lynx. It can support up to 63 daisy-chained devices. Since the introduction of the faster update - IEEE 1394b - the original






43. 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






44. The traditional wired telephone network.






45. Aka Wireless Fidelity.






46. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






47. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






48. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






49. Aka central processing unit.






50. A registry key that exists within another key.