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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka RAMBUS Inline Memory Module.






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






3. A special substance - also called thermal paste or heat sink compound - that increases the heat conductivity between a fan or heat sink and a chip.






4. Any writable mass storage device - removable or fixed in place.






5. A computer circuit board that attaches to and controls SCSI devices.






6. One of the two main protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite - TCP breaks the data into chunks - called datagrams. Each datagram also contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the c






7. 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.






8. DRAM that runs at the speed of the system bus (up to 100-133 MHz).






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






10. A wireless data encryption standard based on the IEEE 802.11i security standard. It issues keys per-user and per-session and includes encryption key integrity checking. It uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).






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






12. A system by which the computer BIOS and operating system recognizes a device and the operating system automatically installs and configures a device driver.






13. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






14. The Windows Vista and Windows 7 tool for gathering and viewing performance data involving memory - disks - processors - network - and other objectives.






15. The protocol for connecting optical drives and tape drives to an ATA channel.






16. A scaled-down laptop in the ultra-portable category - designed for Internet access. Aka also ultra-portable and mini-notebook.






17. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






18. Aka enhanced capabilities port (ECP) mode.






19. A cell phone with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions built in.






20. An early method for addressing the disparity between the drive geometry supported by PC BIOSs and the physical geometry of drives.






21. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.






22. A DVD of any type that can store data on both sides of the disc.






23. Aka motherboard.






24. 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.






25. This attack occurs when a massive number (up to hundreds of thousands) of computers send DoS attacks to a server - making it unavailable.






26. A communication service provided over a telecommunications network or computer network. A VC logically resembles a circuit while passing over a complex routed or switched network - such as the phone company's frame relay network.






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






28. This occurs when someone collects personal information belonging to another person and uses that information to fraudulently make purchases - open new credit accounts - and even obtain new driver's licenses and other forms of identification in the vi






29. The traditional wired telephone network.






30. 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).






31. Software installed on a computer without permission that collects information about a user in order to display targeted advertisements - in the form of either inline banners or pop-ups. Inline banners are advertisements that run within the context of






32. An area on the top left of the Windows XP Start menu containing shortcuts to Windows Update and programs for browsing the Internet and using e-mail.






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






34. Aka logical block address.






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






36. Aka Advanced Micro Devices.






37. A blanket term used for DVD discs regardless of the type of data they contain.






38. Software created to perform malicious acts. Also called malicious software.






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






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






41. Aka pin grid array.






42. A device - usually resembling a power strip - that protects equipment from power surges.






43. Aka American National Standards Institute.






44. Memory that can only be read and that contains program code. ROM is also called firmware.






45. The original digital discs created in 1995 for storing video.






46. Aka digital video interface.






47. Aka file allocation table.






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






49. Memory locations within a CPU that is used as a scratch pad for calculations. Modern CPUs have dedicated registers for specific functions and general-purpose registers for multiple purposes.






50. Aka New Low-profile eXtended.