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Comptia A + Certification

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1. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.






2. Aka KVM switch.






3. Aka Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory.






4. Aka motherboard.






5. Aka radio frequency.






6. Aka distributed denial of service attack.






7. A grouping of wires built into a PC that - based on certain protocols - transfers data - control signals - and power to printed circuit boards (adapter cards) that are plugged into connectors in the expansion bus. Technicians often use the termsexpan






8. A pointing device built into some laptop keyboards. It appears to be a very tiny joystick-type button that barely protrudes above the level of the keys.






9. Aka routing information protocol.






10. 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.






11. An external bus that connects into the PC's PCI bus. With USB - you can theoretically connect up to 127 devices to your computer.






12. In fiber-optics - a single light wave passing down a cable.






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






14. The process that authenticates a user and verifies the user account's level of access to a resource.






15. A group of wires used to identify addresses in main system memory in a computer. The number of wires in an address bus is called the width of the bus and determines the number of unique memory locations that can be addressed using binary math with th






16. A heat dissipation device - usually a passive metal object with a flat surface attached to a component - such as a chip.






17. A network protocol suite originally developed for the Internet; it has been mostly adopted on private networks.






18. Showing consideration for others.






19. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.






20. The amount of data that can travel over a network at a given time.






21. An area of the Windows taskbar used by programs and some hardware devices to display status icons. Also called thenotification area or system tray.






22. The minimum disk space that a file can use - allocated in the file system.






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






24. A large burst of electromagnetic energy - as from a nuclear explosion - that has the potential to damage communications and power lines within a large geographic area - depending on the size and location of the pulse.






25. Aka access control list.






26. Aka Fast Ethernet.






27. Aka v-hold.






28. Aka Digital Light Processing.






29. A wireless standard for using radio waves to communicate between devices. Class 3 Bluetooth devices (the most common) communicate at distances up to one meter.






30. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






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






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






33. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that the video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Wind






34. A type of rechargeable battery used in laptops and other portable devices.






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






36. This GUI utility will display a system summary of the hardware - operating system - and other software.






37. The format in which IP addresses are usually shown - with decimal numbers separated by "dots" as in 192.168.100.2.






38. An icon that represents a link to any object that an icon can represent. Activating a shortcut (by double-clicking it) is a quick way to access an object or to launch a program from the desktop without having to find the actual location of the object






39. A CPU containing two CPU cores.






40. 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.






41. A type of KVM switch that is controlled through a mechanical switch on the box.






42. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






43. 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).






44. Aka Encrypting File System (EFS).






45. 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






46. A sleep mode that is available on any computer that supports ACPI power management. It conserves power while saving the desktop in RAM memory in a work state. To resume - you simply press the power button - and the desktop is quickly displayed.






47. In a laptop - a compartment that holds a single media device that is switchable with another.






48. A utility for migrating data from many computers - or if you need to perform what Microsoft calls a "wipe-and-load migration" from and to the same computer. Available in Windows XP - Vista - and Windows 7.






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






50. Aka Small Computer System Interface.