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1. Aka file allocation table.






2. A power supply form factor that pairs with an ATX motherboard and case.






3. In Windows - one or more settings found in the Local Security Settings console.






4. A KVM switch that uses software and special keyboard commands to switch among controlled computers. Also called anactive KVM switch.






5. Used to represent the chrominance signal in S-Video.






6. Aka Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.






7. A component that you can install into a system onsite - such as memory modules - heat sinks - and CMOS batteries.






8. Aka peripheral component interconnect.






9. Software that takes a scanned image and interprets the patterns in the image into alphanumeric characters.






10. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






11. A security service in which authentication credentials are encrypted (user name and password) before transmission over a network.






12. 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.






13. A raised area on an optical disc that is alternated with depressed areas to be interpreted as data.






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






15. An operating system recovery tool introduced in Windows Me and improved in later versions of Windows. System Restore creates restore points - which are snapshots of Windows - its configuration - and all installed programs. If your computer has nonfat






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






17. A slide switch on the exterior of a PC power supply used to switch between two input voltages.






18. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






19. Aka arithmetic logic unit.






20. Personal System/2 - as in PS/2-style mice and keyboards and connectors. Also called mini-DIN connectors.






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






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






23. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - an international nonprofit organization that sets standards as part of its charter.






24. Aka floppy disk drive.






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






26. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






27. A table on each file and folder in the NTFS file system that contains one or more access control entries.






28. A type of thermal printer in which a heated print head burns dots into the surface of heat-sensitive paper.






29. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.






30. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






31. Managing access to resources. Access control to computers and network resources involves authentication and authorization.






32. Aka nickel metal hydride.






33. In networking - this is a set of rules for using network hardware and software. In most discussions about networks - this term is assigned to certain network software components.






34. A key on a laptop that - when pressed along with the FN key - changes the laptop display brightness at the hardware level. On some laptops - when this key combination is pressed - a small brightness control panel will display on the screen. Use the u






35. Aka lit pixel.






36. 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.






37. The successor to the Mini PCI. It has a 64-bit data bus and is half the size of a Mini PCI Card.






38. The Microsoft Website from which you can download updates to Windows.






39. A process applied to digitally signed code to unencrypt the signature data and use the information to verify the program code was not modified since the signature was added.






40. Aka network address translation.






41. 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






42. A command-line utility installed on a Windows computer with the TCP/IP protocol suite; it's used to view the IP configuration of a network connection and to perform certain administrative tasks.






43. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






44. 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.






45. Aka Balanced Technology eXtended.






46. Aka antistatic mat.






47. 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.






48. Aka Enhanced IDE.






49. Aka MSCONFIG.






50. A wireless mode requiring a wireless access point (WAP).






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