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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. A software fix for a single problem.






3. Aka thumb drive.






4. The original version of the IEEE 1394 standard that supports speeds up to 400 Mbps.






5. The PCMCIA standard that succeeds the PC Card.






6. Aka software firewall.






7. A shared folder on a distribution server containing the source files for a remote installation.






8. Aka floating-point unit.






9. A version of the FAT file system used by hard drives and some flash drives (thumb drives - etc.) - using a 32-bit file allocation table.






10. The smallest laptop type - weighing less than 3 pounds. Aka also netbook and mini-notebook.






11. A rectangular connector with a locking clip on one side and a number designation that refers to the size rather than the number of wires.






12. In a laser printer - the lamp that heats the fusing rollers.






13. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






14. A type of computer firmware that is responsible for informing the CPU of installed devices and how to communicate with them.






15. Aka front side bus.






16. A RAM standard that replaces the original DDR standard. Using far less power than DDR1 - a stick of DDR2 SDRAM has 240 pins.






17. A hardware device or a program that monitors and records a user's every keystroke - usually without the user's knowledge.






18. A Windows service designed to allow a user to invite someone to help troubleshoot a problem.






19. An exact duplicate of an entire hard drive's contents - including the OS and all installed software.






20. Aka Universal Serial Bus.






21. A multi-GPU solution developed by ATI.






22. Aka local area network.






23. Aka Sony/Philips Digital Interface.






24. A remote KVM switch that captures the keyboard - video - and mouse signals - encodes them into IP packets - and sends them over an IP network.






25. Aka electromagnetic pulse.






26. 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. Safe Mode also displays






27. 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.






28. Aka paging file.






29. A name used by the Windows operating systems to identify any parallel port.






30. The cellular network standards used by AT&T and T-Mobile.






31. A fiber-optic connector that has a snap coupling and - at 1.25 mm - is half the size of the SC connector. Also called a local connector.






32. 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.






33. A diagram showing the purpose of each wire in a connector.






34. A device that sits at the connection between networks and routes packets based on their logical destination addresses.






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






36. In a computer - pathways that power - data - and control signals travel from one component to another within the system.






37. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






38. A WAN connection that uses an analog modem rather than a network card and uses standard phone cables rather than network cables.






39. A component of the Windows operating system that resides in a file and is loaded into memory during the kernel loading phase of the Windows startup.






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






41. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.






42. A metal strip used to cover an empty slot in order to preserve the correct air flow and keep dust out.






43. A magnetic mass storage device primarily used for backing up data from computers.






44. The role of the second EIDE drive on a PATA channel.






45. The cellular network standards used by Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.






46. The oldest of the Wi-Fi encryption standards. It uses 64- or 128-bit encryption that is easily broken. It does not encrypt the actual data in a packet - and it does not perform user authentication on a packet.






47. In reference to computers - the pathways or methods for what goes into a computer in the form of data and instructions and similarly what comes out of the computer in many forms - including an onscreen display - a printout sent to a printer - or data






48. 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






49. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






50. Aka Ethernet.