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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A power-usage level.






2. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the master drive on the first channel.






3. A virus that is self-replicating.






4. Aka FAT file system.






5. Aka hyper threading.






6. An online power protection device that isolates a computer or other device plugged into it. During normal operation - the devices run directly off the battery through an inverter - rather than switching to the battery only after a loss of power.






7. On a Microsoft Windows network - a resource - such as a file folder or printer - that is available on the network.






8. A drive used for reading from and writing to removable floppy disks. Also called FDD.






9. In an access control list - a record containing just one user or group account name and the permissions assigned to that account.






10. A system resource that certain devices - such as sound cards and hard drives - can use to move data between the device and system RAM without involving the processor.






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. Erasable programmable read-only memory. A ROM chip that is erasable and reprogrammable through the use of specialized software.






13. Aka demilitarized zone.






14. 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






15. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).






16. In the laser printing process - this is the step in which the cover on the printer's toner cartridge is opened and the toner particles are attracted to the relatively less negatively charged areas of the drum.






17. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






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






19. Aka RAID 5.






20. A power supply standard that has both the 20-pin connector for the motherboard and a 4-pin 12 V connector.






21. The EXPLORER.EXE program. This program supports the entire Windows GUI. If EXPLORER.EXE is called up from inside the GUI - it opens a window for browsing your local disks and files.






22. Introduced in Windows 2000 - a user interface for Windows administration tools that is flexible and configurable.






23. An obsolete video standard introduced with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980s. VGA had a maximum resolution of 720






24. A technology that makes 802.11n speeds possible - using multiple antennas to send and receive digital data in simultaneous radio streams that increases performance.






25. Aka thumb drive.






26. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy






27. A term used for CPU packaging that indicates that a chip has columns and rows of pins.






28. A virus that gains access to a computer by masquerading as a harmless program that a user innocently installs on the computer.






29. A generic reference to a PC's serial communications port - in which the x represents the port number.






30. Pertaining to a DVD drive and disc that can store data in two pitted layers on each data side - with each layer having a different reflectivity index.






31. A long-handled tool with a magnet on one end - used to pick up small objects containing iron.






32. To renew a product activation - required when the activation program discovers significant changes in a computer or the activated product has been installed on a second computer.






33. Aka internal cache memory.






34. A small program - such as those that can be run from the Windows Sidebar.






35. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.






36. 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.






37. 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).






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






39. Aka uniqueness database file.






40. A CPU containing four CPU cores.






41. Aka Universal Serial Bus.






42. Also called 1000Base-T - this networking standard supports speeds up to 1 Gbps.






43. The bus within a CPU that connects the CPU to external components.






44. In the laser printer - the heated rollers that fuse the toner to the paper.






45. Aka time to live.






46. Aka System Information.






47. A special terminating stick that must be inserted into the open RIMM sockets.






48. Describes the VGA mode color setting that - although it can produce around 16 million different colors - can only display up to 256 different colors at a time.






49. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






50. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.