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1. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






2. 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.






3. A device required at both ends of a T-carrier system connection.






4. Aka virtual circuit.






5. On a circuit board - a small connector that slides down on a pair of pins jutting up from the board. Multiple pins are often side-by-side - and a jumper joins a pair of them.






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






7. A subprotocol of IP that detects and reports problems that can cause errors.






8. Information organized as a unit into a container. The author (creator) of a file controls how much information the file contains.






9. In an IP configuration - the address of the local router that acts as a gateway from the local network to other IP networks.






10. A power management standard - introduced by Intel in 1992 - that defines four power-usage operating levels.






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






12. A security feature of many Windows versions that allows it to encrypt files on an NTFS volume.






13. Aka secure socket layer.






14. Any power supply that provides high voltage - such as those in laser printers and CRTs.






15. 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.






16. Aka Integrated Service Digital Network.






17. A type of riser card that connects directly into a motherboard and adds no additional functionality of its own - but extends the expansion bus and allows expansion cards to be added in a different physical orientation.






18. Aka pointing stick.






19. [1] On computer circuit boards - a very tiny slide that indicates two states.. [2] In a network - a network device - much like a hub - except that a switch takes an incoming signal and sends it to only the destination port - avoiding collisions and m






20. A handheld device used to measure electrical resistance - voltage - and/or current.






21. An action - such as the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key combination or the insertion of a smart card - that clears memory of certain types of viruses before a user logs on.






22. Aka display.






23. Showing consideration for others.






24. 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.






25. The wireless nodes (including the WAP) communicating together in infrastructure mode.






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






27. The box that houses the main computer system.






28. 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.






29. 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






30. Aka local area network.






31. The location where a cable attaches to a computer. Alternatively - a connector on a motherboard for memory - CPUs - power - or other circuitry.






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






33. A special modifier key on a laptop keyboard that when pressed together with certain alphanumeric keys - changes the output of the pressed key. It is often called the function key.






34. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






35. Aka Enhanced IDE.






36. Aka Post Office Protocol.






37. A display device that contains a cathode ray tube and uses an electron gun to activate phosphors behind the screen at the front of the tub.






38. A device that stores a large amount of information - even when it is powered off.






39. A subprotocol of TCP/IP used for connectionless communications in which each packet is sent without establishing a connection.






40. A tool for migrating user data and settings from one Windows computer to a computer running Windows XP.






41. In a CPU - the speed at which it can potentially execute instructions - measured in millions of cycles per second






42. An LCD technology based on thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. An active matrix display has a transistor at every pixel - which enables much quicker display changes than passive matrix displays and produces a display quality comparable to a CRT.






43. In reference to IDE PATA drives - the slave drive on the second channel.






44. Aka plain-old telephone service.






45. Aka Wired Equivalent Privacy.






46. An Advanced Options choice that will temporarily disable the Automatically Restart option on the Advanced page of System Properties.






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






49. The graphical Internet consisting of a vast array of documents located on millions of specialized servers worldwide. The documents are created using HTML and other specialized languages - and transferred from servers to client computers using HTTP an






50. Aka Domain Name Service.







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