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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.






2. A physical area where a Wi-Fi network connects to the Internet.






3. A group of networking standards created by the IEEE 802.3 subcommittee.






4. Aka IEEE 1394.






5. The act of discovering the cause of a problem and correcting it.






6. A popular inkjet printer developed by Canon.






7. Aka virtual file allocation table.






8. Aka serial ATA.






9. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






10. In a Microsoft Windows network - an administrative organization with a centralized security accounts database maintained on one or more special servers called domain controllers. This centralized database contains accounts for users - groups - and co






11. 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.






12. Aka Domain Name Service.






13. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






14. Aka continuity RIMM.






15. 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.






16. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 10 Mbps.






17. In a CPU - special memory that resides outside the CPU's core and is used to temporarily store instructions and data in order to increase the processing speed. Also called Level 2 (L2) cache and Level 3 (L3) cache - depending on the design of the CPU






18. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






19. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






20. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






21. A command-line utility installed on a Windows computer with the TCP/IP protocol suite; it's used to view the IP configuration of a network connection and to perform certain administrative tasks.






22. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






23. Aka Digital Light Processing.






24. Malware that hides itself from detection by antimalware programs; it is installed on a computer by someone who has privileged access to the computer.






25. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






26. A security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to Windows.






27. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to bring up a small volume control panel on the display. Using the up (?) or right (?) arrow key - the volume will increase. To decrease the volume - press the FN key and the SPEAKER VOLUME key along






28. Aka synchronous dynamic RAM.






29. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.






30. A company in the business of providing Internet access to users.






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






32. 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






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. Aka root key.






35. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






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






37. A file attribute set by the OS when a file is created or modified. Backup software often removes this attribute when backing up a file in order to mark it as a backed-up file.






38. A power-usage level.






39. Dual inline package. A very tiny slide that indicates two states. Motherboard and other circuit cards often have one or more groupings of DIP switches for configuring options.






40. The classic PC serial port that complies with the Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232) in its circuitry - cabling - and connector design - and transfers data one bit at a time.






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






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.






43. Unsolicited e-mail.






44. In Windows Vista - a vertical bar found by default on the right side of the desktop. Here - you will find gadgets and mini-programs.






45. Aka musical instrument digital interface.






46. In Disk Management - the status given to a dynamic disk that has not had its configuration information (stored on the disk) imported into Windows. This status occurs when a dynamic disk is moved to a different Windows computer or when a dynamic disk






47. Aka digitizing tablet.






48. A video signaling method in which analog video information is transmitted as two or more discrete signals. Two general types of component video are RGB Video and S-Video.






49. An LCD display that uses a DB-15 connector - which means that it accepts analog signals that it converts to digital.






50. A unit of measurement of actual delivered power - calculated by the formula watts = volts