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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka digital linear tape.






2. In a laser printer - a metal drum with an electro-photosensitive coating to which a charge can be applied by a laser beam.






3. A program used to discover a password.






4. A printer that creates printed output line by line.






5. Aka floppy disk drive.






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






7. Aka Advanced Technology.






8. Aka motherboard.






9. An organization that creates specifications for infrared wireless communication.






10. 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.






11. In a CPU - special memory that resides outside the CPU's core and is used to temporarily store instructions and data in order to increase the processing speed. Also called Level 2 (L2) cache and Level 3 (L3) cache - depending on the design of the CPU






12. The style of partition on a basic disk - which includes primary and extended.






13. A type of solid-state storage that is portable - about the size of a flattened thumb - and usually has a USB interface. Also called a flash drive or jump drive.






14. A small expansion card introduced in the late 1990s that plugs into a special slot on a motherboard and uses the CPU to perform modem functions and sound functions. It is not plug and play compatible.






15. A term used by Microsoft for a peer-to-peer network in which each computer can be either a client or a server or both.






16. Aka Small Outline DIMM.






17. Aka Enhanced IDE.






18. An early international standard for sending voice and data over digital telephone wires. ISDN uses existing telephone circuits or higher-speed conditioned lines to get speeds of either 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps. ISDN lines also have the ability to carry vo






19. Threats that are not truly malicious code - but can have indirect negative effects - such as decreasing performance or using up bandwidth. Grayware includes spyware - adware - spam - and spim.






20. Cabling that contains a single copper wire surrounded by several layers of insulating plastic and a woven wire sheath that provides protection.






21. An installation of Windows that is not automated - where the user is required to pay attention throughout the entire process to provide information and to respond to messages. Also called a manual installation.






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






23. Aka secure socket layer.






24. Aka asynchronous transfer mode.






25. Aka front side bus.






26. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.






27. The traditional wired telephone network.






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






29. Introduced in 1993 - the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.






30. In reference to a memory module - how much information the processor can access from or write to memory in a single cycle.






31. Aka PCIe.






32. Aka read-only memory.






33. An encryption technology introduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions - Windows Server 2008 - and also in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. It encrypts the entire boot volume.






34. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






35. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






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






37. This attack occurs when someone sends a large number of requests to a server - overwhelming the server so it stops functioning on the network.






38. 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.






39. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.






40. Windows run-line utility for testing the DirectX support. Launch this program when experiencing video problems and/or audio problems when running DirectX applications.






41. In the domain name system - a first-level domain - which is a suffix added to a registered domain name and separated from the domain name with a "dot" (.). Among the TLDs are .com - .gov - .edu - .org - .mil - .net - .biz - many two-lettered country






42. A power-usage level.






43. 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.






44. A simple type of component video signal that sends three separate signals






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






46. Aka emergency repair disk.






47. The original digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for movies sold at retail.






48. 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.






49. The signal in a television transmission that contains the brightness of the image.






50. An interface on a PC that originally was unidirectional and operated at a speed of 150 KBps - but now has several operation modes.