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1. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.






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






3. 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






4. The type of battery used in the first portable PCs - which was heavy and inefficient.






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






6. A drive that can write once to a special CD-R disc.






7. Aka External Serial ATA.






8. One of the main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - IP manages logical addressing of network packets so routing protocols can route the packets over the network.






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






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






11. A Windows sleep mode that uses hard drive space to save all the programs and data that are in memory at the time you choose this mode. The computer then completely shuts down and requires no power while it is hibernating.






12. Aka DDR3 SDRAM.






13. A motherboard form factor introduced in 2003 by Intel as the successor to ATX.






14. A command-line utility - installed with the TCP/IP protocol suite - that traces the route taken by packets to a destination.






15. A measurement of a body part - such as a fingerprint or retina scan.






16. A virtual communication circuit that is created and remains available between two endpoints - which are normally some form of data terminal equipment (DTE). Telecommunications companies provide PVC service to companies requiring a dedicated circuit b






17. The conversion of data into a special format that cannot be read by anyone unless they have a software key to convert it back into its usable form.






18. A device found in laptops that monitors and regulates power usage. The features vary by manufacturer - but typically - they provide short-circuit protection - give "low battery" warnings - and can be configured to shut down the computer automatically






19. The difference in value between a display's brightest white and darkest black. Modern LCD displays have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or greater.






20. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






21. A DVD of any type that can contain data on only one side.






22. In the laser printing process - the step at which the heat-sensitive toner is fused to the paper by heated fusing rollers.






23. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






24. Aka continuity RIMM.






25. Aka channel service unit.






26. A strap designed to discharge static electricity from your body. One end attaches to the wrist - whereas the other end attaches to a grounded object.






27. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.






28. Aka capture card.






29. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






30. The first type of RAM available. It is very fast - compared to DRAM - but also very expensive.






31. Wide-ultra-extended graphics array






32. A virus that is self-replicating.






33. The former name of the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface standard.






34. Aka Extended Video Graphics Array.






35. A way to monitor security-related events.






36. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






37. A Web browser created by Microsoft.






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






39. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.






40. A pointing device built into some laptop keyboards. It appears to be a very tiny joystick-type button that barely protrudes above the level of the keys.






41. A power supply that only accepts one input power voltage.






42. An early PC hard drive interface.






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






44. A file attribute assigned to a file by the operating system to identify it as a system file.






45. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






46. A technology for transferring serial data at high speeds. Also known as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






47. An organization that created several PC standards - including the VGA connector.






48. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.






49. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






50. Aka Integrated Drive Electronics.







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