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Comptia A + Certification

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1. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






2. A file or folder name that breaks the 8.3 file-naming convention used in the FAT file system. This term continues to be used on newer file systems.






3. A connector that is slightly larger than an RJ-11 connector and contains eight wires. RJ-45 connectors most commonly attach twisted-pair cables to Ethernet network cards.






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






5. The first physical sector on a floppy disk or the first sector on a hard drive partition. The boot record contains information about the OS. The boot record on a primary active partition is used to start the operating system. Also called the boot sec






6. An Advanced Options menu choice that appears under certain circumstances. When available - selecting this option will return to the OS Choices menu (OS Loader menu).






7. The use by the operating system of a portion of hard disk as memory.






8. A paid television subscription service offered by cable television providers.






9. A utility that provides remote terminal emulation for connecting to computers and network devices running server software that can respond - without needing to be concerned with the actual operating system running on either system.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Aka optical character recognition.






13. A logical memory address defined in a processor's address bus that allows the system to access physical RAM or ROM memory locations.






14. A file system used by operating systems for organizing - reading - and writing optical discs.






15. A common connector used to connect a power supply to floppy drives.






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






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






18. A power-usage level.






19. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






20. A device found in laptops that monitors and regulates power usage. The features vary by manufacturer - but typically - they provide short-circuit protection - give "low battery" warnings - and can be configured to shut down the computer automatically






21. 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.






22. An Intel standard for starting up a computer over the network - without relying on a disk-based operating system. Used to install a new operating system or run diagnostics software.






23. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






24. The former name of the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface standard.






25. A device that records video content to disk.






26. Fiber-optic cable that allows only a single light wave to pass down the cable.






27. A Windows display setting that allows you to adjust the number of colors - or color depth - used by the display.






28. Aka capture card.






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






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






31. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






32. Software instructions stored in ROM chips. It exists on most PC components and on the motherboard.






33. Two disk drives used for RAID 1 - in which data is written to both drives at the same time - a practice called mirroring.






34. An area of a physical hard disk that defines space that will be used for logical drives.. (v.) To define the space to be used for logical drives using a special program - such as the Windows Setup program.






35. The type of connector used in the ExpressCard interface.






36. Aka Domain Name Service.






37. Aka Spam over Instant Messaging.






38. A wireless network standard that uses the 2.4 GHz band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11b.






39. Aka radio frequency.






40. In a disk drive - the rotating shaft used to spin the disks.






41. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.






42. A Windows 2000 recovery tool requiring an up-to-date emergency repair disk (ERD) or recent emergency repair information stored on the local hard disk.






43. A specialized type of scanner that reads bar codes - which are patterns of bars of varying widths printed on labels or directly on items. The bar pattern is converted into a numeric code that is transmitted to a computer as data.






44. A standard for hard drives that attach to the Parallel AT Attachment (PATA) interface.






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






46. A plug designed for testing a specific port type (e.g. - serial - parallel - or USB). The plug does not connect to a cable but reroutes the sending pins to the receiving pins. Using special software on the computer - a loopback test is performed in w






47. Aka Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).






48. 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.






49. A communications system now used for data communications via satellite that usually uses microwave radio frequencies and requires a dish antenna - receiver - and transmitter.






50. Aka network address translation.