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Comptia A + Certification

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.






5. A group of features in the system BIOS - the chipset - the operating system - device drivers - and the individual components that enable efficient use of power in a computer.






6. 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






7. Aka Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).






8. The primary control device for a computer system. The CPU is simply a chip containing a set of components that manages all the activities. Also called a processor.






9. 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.






10. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






11. Aka power-on self-test.






12. Aka communication network riser.






13. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






14. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






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






16. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.






17. One of the two prevailing CPU manufacturers.






18. An interface standard for use with DVD players - digital television (DTV) players - set-top cable or satellite service boxes - and other devices. It combines audio and video signals into an uncompressed signal and has a bandwidth of up to 5 GB/second






19. A memory error-checking method in which the parity bit is used to ensure that the total number of 1s in the data stream is even.






20. Aka capture card.






21. A server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This server allocates IP addresses to DHCP client computers.






22. Aka Advanced Technology eXtended.






23. Aka secure socket layer.






24. A video interface - also called Super Video - that transmits video using two signals






25. 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






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






27. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - and data can also be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






28. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).






29. A set of technologies that allow voice transmission over an IP network






30. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the second parallel port.






31. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.






32. An input device that uses a stylus. Available as an external device - it uses touch screen technology and is usually at least the size of a sheet of paper. Also called a digitizer.






33. Aka hyper threading.






34. Aka error-correcting code.






35. A cooling fan located on a CPU.






36. Aka video RAM.






37. Authentication is validation of a user account and password that occurs before the security components of Windows will give the user access to the computer.






38. 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.






39. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






40. 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.






41. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object






42. A protocol that transfers e-mail messages between mail servers. Clients also use this protocol to send e-mail to mail servers.






43. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access 2.






44. 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.






45. A version of the FAT file system for very small drives






46. A service of the operating system on a laptop that detects when a card has been inserted.






47. A small cassette containing an ink reservoir used to provide the medium for certain printers. An ink cartridge will only fit a certain model printer.






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






49. Device that stores digital data on magnetized media - such as floppy disks - the metal platters in hard disk drives - and magnetic tape media used in tape drives.






50. Aka Video Electronics Standards Organization.