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Comptia A + Certification
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1. A communications network made up of personal computing devices - such as computers - telephones - and personal digital assistants.
RAMBUS Inline Memory Module (RIMM)
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
personal area network (PAN)
embedded systems
2. A VESA standard for graphics adapters with a maximum graphics resolution of 1024
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
S/PDIF
DVI-A
Extended Video Graphics Array (EVGA)
3. Aka thermal compound.
thermal paste
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
World Wide Web
BNC
4. A category of adapter card that accepts and records video signals to a PC's hard drive. A TV tuner card is a type of capture card.
capture card
C
touch screen
watts
5. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)
spim
Start menu
DDR SDRAM
6. A riser card standard that AMD - 3Com - and others introduced in 2000 to supersede AMR. It uses one PCI slot - provides accelerated audio and modem functions as well as networking - and supports multiple Ethernet NICs.
regional settings
Advanced Communications Riser (ACR)
port triggering
smart card reader
7. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.
logical block address (LBA)
DDR3
spindle
Encrypting File System (EFS)
8. Aka low-voltage differential.
mirroring
PGA
low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)
hot-swappable drive
9. The use of a biometric for authentication.
ATM
accessory bay
biometric logon
SCSI
10. A Windows server running the WINS service to maintain and resolve NetBIOS names.
Level 2 (L2) cache
WINS Server
motherboard
RAID controller
11. Aka Rambus Dynamic RAM.
loopback plug
network operating system (NOS)
troubleshooting
RDRAM
12. 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.
Blu-ray disc
Automated System Recovery (ASR)
DMZ
spyware
13. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.
registry key
response time
POST card
FAT16
14. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.
second-level domain (SLD)
professionalism
case
LED
15. Aka wireless access point.
PCI Express
WAP
case fan
shared video memory
16. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.
primary slave
network client
security auditing
ECP
17. A common connector used to connect a power supply to internal peripherals.
molex connector
PCIe Mini Card
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
DDR
18. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters
internal cache memory
logical block address (LBA)
planar board
passive matrix display
19. A chip that keeps track of the date and time on a PC. Set the date and time through your operating system or in the BIOS Setup program.
customer premises equipment (CPE)
RIMM
real-time clock (RTC)
back door
20. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.
HD-DVD
SAS
dotted decimal notation
FPM
21. A VESA standard for power management in display devices.
unidirectional mode
metropolitan area network (MAN)
thumb drive
display power-management signaling (DPMS)
22. The signal in a television transmission that contains the color of the image.
edition
pixel
chrominance
active communication
23. A DVD drive that cannot write to but can read DVD discs.
memory
TTL
file system
DVD-ROM drive
24. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.
boot sequence
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
thermal wax transfer printer
auditing
25. An early technology for increasing the performance of DRAM.
Compact Disc File System (CDFS)
secure socket layer (SSL)
fast page mode (FPM)
Level 3 (L3) cache
26. 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.
answer file
SCSI controller
BIOS
touch screen
27. A solid-state storage standard for high-capacity (2 - 4 - and 8 GB) memory cards that are tiny
VC
Internet Explorer (IE)
chrominance
Secure Digital (SD) Card
28. A process that places the logical structure of a file system on a partitioned volume.
format
CD-RW (CD-rewritable)
heat sink
primary master
29. In power supplies - the amount of wattage the power supply can handle.
basic disk
authentication factor
capacity
hot spot
30. The protocol used to allow client computers to pick up e-mail from mail servers. The current version is POP3.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
hot spot
processor
memory
31. Aka Scalable Link Interface.
local user account
exception
SLI
toner cartridge
32. A portion of a computer's chipset that controls communications between the CPU and such I/O busses as USB - IDE - PS2 - SATA - and others.
bus
jump drive
optical character recognition (OCR)
Southbridge
33. Aka musical instrument digital interface.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
MIDI
Safe Mode With Command Prompt
ASR
34. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.
S/PDIF
analog modem
WRAM
mirrored set
35. Client software for browsing and accessing the content on the World Wide Web. Examples include Internet Explorer and Firefox.
primary partition
SAS
Web browser
DVD-R
36. A technology for ROM that can be reprogrammed using special software.
flash ROM
Start menu
VRAM
slot cover
37. 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.
code signing
hacker
digital signature
low-voltage differential (LVD)
38. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.
DVD
TRACERT
land
Advanced Power Management (APM)
39. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.
subscription channel (SC)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
digital LCD display
surge protector
40. 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.
pop-up download
dynamic storage
electro-photosensitive drum
reactivate
41. The order in which the BIOS will search devices for an operating system to start.
Blu-ray disc
DVD+RW
boot sequence
network interface card (NIC)
42. A remote KVM switch that uses either Cat 5 or USB cabling. The distance it can be from the computers it controls is a function of the length limits of the cabling; it normally uses a proprietary protocol and special hardware.
cable tester
local remote KVM switch
capacity
point stick
43. Aka systray.
100Base-T
reactivate
notification area
socket services
44. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. It also displays in low
AGP
Safe Mode With Networking
NetBIOS
PGA
45. A CPU component that manages the CPU cache.
cache controller
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
point-to-point protocol (PPP)
electro-photosensitive drum
46. The third version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it is a departure from the old standards in that it uses Category 5e twisted pair cable with RJ-45 connectors - combining Ethernet and FireWire.
IEEE 1394c-2006
super video graphics array (SVGA)
tape drive
repeater
47. A Web browser created by Microsoft.
background process
SDRAM
Internet Explorer (IE)
CMOS
48. A computer's temporary working space - usually in DRAM chips.
active speaking
ACPI
memory
h-hold
49. A type of memory checking in which every eight-bit byte of data is accompanied by a ninth bit (the parity bit) - which is used to determine the presence of errors in the data. The two types of parity are odd and even.
NiCD
magnetic mass storage
parity
BitLocker drive encryption
50. The circuit board in a computer to which all other components directly or indirectly connect. Also called a mainboard - system board - mobo - or planar board.
WEP
mini-DIN-6
motherboard
Voice over IP (VoIP)
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