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Comptia A + Certification

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1. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






2. A small device containing a microchip used to generate unique passwords for logging on to a computer or a network.






3. In a laser printer - a wire that stretches across the printer's drum - not touching it - but positioned very close to the drum's surface so it can pass high voltage to the drum.






4. In a laser printer - a metal drum with an electro-photosensitive coating to which a charge can be applied by a laser beam.






5. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






6. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






7. Aka v-hold.






8. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






9. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras - which often use CompactFlash.






10. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).






11. Aka serial ATA.






12. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






13. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






14. A private internetwork.






15. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






16. Aka floating-point unit.






17. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.






18. A number that identifies a device on a SCSI chain.






19. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.






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






21. The act of moving through a neighborhood in a vehicle or on foot - using either a laptop equipped with Wi-Fi wireless network capability or a simple Wi-Fi sensor available for a few dollars from many sources. War drivers are searching for open hotspo






22. 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.






23. An assigned channel over which a device can send a signal to the processor to get its attention.






24. A version of the FAT file system used by hard drives and some flash drives (thumb drives - etc.) - using a 32-bit file allocation table.






25. An obsolete memory module standard that was produced in 30-pin and 72-pin sizes. Thirty-pin SIMMs are 8-bit - and 72-pin SIMMs are 32-bit.






26. A long-established fiber-optic WAN technology.






27. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).






28. A version of Windows XP that includes Windows Media Center - which supports advanced multimedia functions.






29. A device that records video content to disk.






30. A disk type introduced with Windows 2000 that contains space allocated in volumes without the limits imposed on basic disks. On a dynamic disk - the number of volumes are unlimited - and a volume can extend to include available space on any hard disk






31. Two or more disks working together in one of the several RAID schemes.






32. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






33. A network connection device that passes traffic between two networks - using the physical address (MAC address) of the destination device.






34. Aka World Wide Web.






35. A practice begun in Windows 2000 in which all of the operating system code is digitally signed to show that it has not been tampered with.






36. Aka network address translation.






37. A DVI mode that supports digital video signals and is partially compatible with HDMI. Aka also digital video interface and High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






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






39. A PCMCIA card standard that comes in two interfaces: PCIe and USB 2.0.






40. A special disk used for recovering an OS failure in Windows 2000. It requires that you create the ERD while the system is healthy - and then use it - along with the Windows Setup CD - to repair Windows.






41. An interconnected network. The Internet is the largest example.






42. Aka thermal compound.






43. A local bus designed for video only - it provides a direct link between the processor and the video card - giving the video card direct access to main memory.






44. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






45. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.






46. An LCD display setting that adjusts the viewable area of the display vertically.






47. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard - promoted by Toshiba - that was defeated by the Blu-ray Disc standard as the widely accepted high-definition standard.






48. Aka surge protector.






49. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






50. Aka radio frequency.