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Comptia A + Certification

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






2. Aka video RAM.






3. Aka thread.






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






5. Aka automated system recovery.






6. A CRT video setting - also known at horizontal hold - that holds the image horizontally on the screen.






7. Aka Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.






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






9. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.






10. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






11. A method of memory error-checking that is more sophisticated than parity checking. Like parity checking - it adds an extra bit per byte. In addition - software in the system memory controller uses an algorithm to both detect and correct errors.






12. Aka File Transfer Protocol (FTP).






13. 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






14. The sudden and uncontrolled movement of electricity from an object with a greater charge to one with a lesser charge. Also called static electricity.






15. Aka low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).






16. A straight - round connector used to connect fiber-optic cabling to a network device. It has a twist-type coupling.






17. Aka S-Video.






18. The primary input device for a PDA - shaped like a pen and used to press small keys on a keypad - tap the screen to select items - or write data on the screen.






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






20. Aka central processing unit.






21. A pen-sized tool that has a plunger at one end. When pressed - the plunger causes small - hooked prongs to extend from the other end of the tool for retrieving dropped objects from inside a computer.






22. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






23. A processor packaging that uses pads on the processor that come in contact with pins in the socket on the motherboard - permitting a higher density than possible with PGA.






24. The redirection of incoming traffic to the requesting internal hosts that initiated the communication with an external host.






25. A network that covers a relatively small area - such as a building - home - office - or campus. The typical distances are measured in hundreds of meters.






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






27. A network that covers a metropolitan area - usually using high-speed fiber-optic cable (operating in the gigabits-per-second range).






28. One of many low-level instructions built into the control unit of a CPU. Also called a microprogram.






29. The third version of the IEEE 1394 standard; it is a departure from the old standards in that it uses Category 5e twisted pair cable with RJ-45 connectors - combining Ethernet and FireWire.






30. A type of RIMM memory module used in laptops.






31. The digital versatile disc (DVD) encoding format used for data storage.






32. Encrypted data placed in a file to guard against tampering.






33. The act of safely installing/uninstalling or attaching/removing a device while a computer is up and running.






34. A protocol developed in the 1980s by IBM for managing names on a network. Also used by Microsoft in early networking. Replaced by DNS on TCP/IP networks.






35. A drive that is mapped to an empty folder on an NTFS volume and is assigned a drive path rather than drive letters.






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






37. The information transfer protocol of the World Wide Web (WWW). Included in HTTP are the commands Web browsers use to request Web pages from Web servers and then display them on the screen of the local computer.






38. Aka pin grid array.






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






40. 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






41. A 3/32-inch audio connector.






42. An underlying protocol that supports Microsoft Remote Desktop.






43. A network connection device at the core of a wireless network.






44. In the domain name system - a first-level domain - which is a suffix added to a registered domain name and separated from the domain name with a "dot" (.). Among the TLDs are .com - .gov - .edu - .org - .mil - .net - .biz - many two-lettered country






45. Aka thumb drive.






46. The displayable number of pixels - expressed as x and y numbers - such as 1024






47. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






48. Aka electronic KVM switch.






49. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






50. A magnetic storage device that contains a thin internal plastic disk - capable of receiving magnetic charges contained in the thin magnetic coating on the disk.