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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A sleep mode that is available on any computer that supports ACPI power management. It conserves power while saving the desktop in RAM memory in a work state. To resume - you simply press the power button - and the desktop is quickly displayed.






2. Aka Internet service provider.






3. In a CPU - the component that is primarily responsible for directing all the activities of the computer and the interactions of its components.






4. Aka virtual circuit.






5. Light waves in the infrared spectrum.






6. A set of behaviors for the workplace that includes how you interact with people and how you treat property.






7. A utility for migrating data from many computers - or if you need to perform what Microsoft calls a "wipe-and-load migration" from and to the same computer. Available in Windows XP - Vista - and Windows 7.






8. Any video adapter or monitor that exceeds the VGA standard in resolution and color depth with a maximum resolution of 1600






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






10. 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.






11. 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






12. Aka permanent virtual circuit.






13. An arrangement of pins on a processor in which the pins are offset in a way that allows for a higher pin density than PGA.






14. Aka nickel-cadmium.






15. Super XGA - a video graphics mode with a maximum resolution of 1280






16. Radio frequency interference. Radio signals that occur in proximity to equipment that is sensitive to these types of signals.






17. A variation of the PGA CPU packaging that was used with Pentium CPUs.






18. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.






19. A 25-pin D-shell connector.






20. A single-sided - double-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 8.54 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






21. Aka systray.






22. A key on a laptop that - when pressed along with the FN key - changes the laptop display brightness at the hardware level. On some laptops - when this key combination is pressed - a small brightness control panel will display on the screen. Use the u






23. 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






24. Aka refresh rate.






25. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






26. Cable that consists of pairs of wires twisted around each other. The twists help to boost each wire's signals and make them less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).






27. Aka Advanced Technology.






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






29. Aka access control entry.






30. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.






31. A single dot on a display screen. A contraction of "Picture Element."






32. Aka cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor.






33. A power-usage level.






34. The Internet service that manages access to Internet domain names and the naming system it uses for computers and resources connected to the Internet or in a private network.






35. 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.






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






37. A device that combines two or more devices - such as a printer - scanner - and fax machine.






38. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






39. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.






40. A name used by the Windows operating systems to identify any parallel port.






41. When a mount point exists between a partition or volume to a folder on another volume - the drive path is the path (including a drive letter) to that partition or volume.






42. In Microsoft terminology - software that contains one or more software fixes or changes to the operating system.






43. Aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.






44. Aka floating-point unit.






45. A network service that handles the requests for Internet services - such as Web pages - files on an FTP server - and mail for a proxy client without exposing that client's IP address to the Internet. There is specific proxy server and client software






46. An operating system that runs on a network server and provides file sharing and access to other resources - account management - authentication - and authorization services.






47. A service that manages Microsoft NetBIOS names for a Windows network. This service is becoming obsolete - as Windows has moved to DNS for naming and name service.






48. Any type of computer that you can easily transport and that contains an all-in-one component layout.






49. Aka power supply.






50. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






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