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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A 9-pin D-shell connector.






2. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






3. 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.






4. Aka network address translation.






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






6. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the first channel.






7. A generic term for a collection of information on known malware (not just viruses).






8. A DVD of any type that can contain data on only one side.






9. In Windows - an Advanced Option that is only available in Windows Servers in the role of domain controllers - although it appears on the menu in non-domain controllers.






10. In the FAT file system - the top-level directory in which the operating system stores information about files - including a reference to the FAT table so it knows where to find the file's contents on disk. The NTFS file system also has a root - or to






11. A wide area network (WAN) connection that allows a large amount of data to be transmitted. Broadband WANs includes cellular - ISDN - DSL - cable - T-carrier - satellite - and fiber.






12. The disruption of signal transmission caused by the radiation of electrical and magnetic fields. Electric motors are a common source of EMI.






13. 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.






14. The plug at the end of a cable or the port or connection point on a computer or device.






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






16. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






17. Aka compact disc.






18. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.






19. The code used to provide multiple language support to Windows.






20. A category of software that runs surreptitiously on a user's computer in order to gather information without the user's permission and then sends that information to the people who requested it.






21. Aka Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.






22. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






23. A process that runs "behind the scenes" with a low priority - does not require input - and rarely creates output.






24. A set of rules and practices describing how an organization protects and manages sensitive information. A security policy applies to all employees.






25. An LCD display setting that adjusts the viewable area of the display vertically.






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






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






28. A DVI mode that supports downward compatibility with analog displays.






29. Aka Gigabit Ethernet.






30. Aka error-correcting code.






31. Memory that is accessible in any (random) order. Most of the memory in a PC is RAM.






32. A T-1 multiplexer or a special LAN bridge that connects to the telephone company's channel service unit (CSU) - which encodes data for transmission over a T-carrier circuit.






33. Aka routing information protocol.






34. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






35. Aka denial of service (DoS) attack.






36. A connector that contains two to four wires and usually attaches phone cables to modems and to wall-mounted phone jacks.






37. Aka American National Standards Institute.






38. 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.






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






40. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






41. Aka RAID 5.






42. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






43. An interconnected network. The Internet is the largest example.






44. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.






45. A connection over a wide area network.






46. The top-level folder or directory in the file structure. This appears the same - regardless of the underlying file system.






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






48. A type of printer that uses a film coated with colored wax that melts onto paper. These printers are similar to dye-sublimation printers but differ in two major ways: the film contains wax rather than dye - and these printers do not require special p






49. A portion of system memory used by a video adapter built into a motherboard.






50. The practice of applying a digital signature to device driver code.