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1. 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






2. AMD manufactures CPUs and other products - and its chief rival is Intel Corporation.






3. A program used to discover a password.






4. A coherent and concentrated light beam - also simply called a laser.






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






6. A type of display device that includes a touch-sensitive face to accept input from the user.






7. A circuit on a motherboard through which incoming power passes. Several voltage regulators maintain a steady voltage as demand goes up and down - with one or more voltage regulators for the various voltages required (5 volts - 12 volts - 3.3 volts -






8. Aka dual inline memory module (DIMM).






9. 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.






10. Aka top-level domain.






11. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






12. The first physical sector on a hard disk - which contains the initial boot program that the BIOS loads into memory during bootup. It also contains the partition table.






13. An Intel specification for the PC 32-bit architecture defining CPUs - motherboards - and other components.






14. A type of thermal printer in which a heated print head burns dots into the surface of heat-sensitive paper.






15. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






16. Aka Secure Digital (SD) Card.






17. A screen device for video output. Also called a monitor.






18. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Windows






19. Aka wireless access point.






20. Aka network address translation.






21. The act of covertly obtaining information broadcast from wireless devices using the Bluetooth standard.






22. The name used by the Windows operating systems to identify the first parallel port.






23. A power management standard that includes all the power states of APM - plus two more. It also supports soft power.






24. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to once - but data cannot be overwritten. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






25. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






26. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






27. 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






28. Aka S-Video.






29. A type of solid-state storage that is commonly used in a variety of devices - such as digital cameras.






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






31. A type of DIMM memory module used in laptops.






32. RAM that doubles the rate of speed at which a standard SDRAM can process data. Also called DDR and DDR1. A stick of DDR1 SDRAM has 184 pins.






33. A registry key that exists within another key.






34. The connecting point of a mounted drive to a folder on an NTFS volume.






35. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.






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






37. A storage type in Windows that uses the partition table in the master boot record (MBR) to define disk partitions.






38. A printed circuit card that you add to the motherboard to enhance functionality. Also called an expansion card. Video adapters and network interface cards (NICs) are examples of adapter cards.






39. A service implemented on Windows Servers that hides the complexity of the network from end users in that it makes files that are distributed across multiple servers appear as if they are in one place.






40. A file used during an unattended installation of Windows. It provides a script of responses to the questions Setup asks so the user does not have to answer them manually.






41. 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






42. The original digital discs created in 1995 for storing video.






43. In reference to networks - communications in both directions at the same time.






44. Aka read-only memory.






45. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






46. A group of schemes designed to provide either better performance or improved data reliability through redundancy.






47. A special-purpose computer designed for a certain task and installed within a device.






48. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






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






50. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.







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