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Comptia A + Certification

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1. Aka nickel metal hydride.






2. Pertaining to a DVD drive or disc that can store data in a single layer of pits on each data side.






3. Using the same cabling as 10BaseT - Fast Ethernet - or 100Base-T - operates at 100 Mbps and uses different network interface cards.






4. A wireless mode requiring a wireless access point (WAP).






5. A specialized chip that controls DMA channels.






6. A Windows service that allows a user to connect remotely to a computer and run the Windows desktop on the remote computer - but have the same access as if logged on to the computer and its local network.






7. In the domain name system - a name that is registered under a top-level domain - such as mcgraw-hill.com or microsoft.com.






8. 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.






9. The memory space - program code - data - and system resources required by a running program.






10. The specific requirements for the level of CPU - amount of memory - and size of the hard disk for the computer on which an operating system can be installed.






11. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






12. Aka System Information.






13. A 4-pin connector that - in addition to a 20-pin connector - is part of motherboard power connector that follows the ATX 12V standard.






14. An organization that created several PC standards - including the VGA connector.






15. A device that takes video output and projects it onto a screen for viewing by a larger audience.






16. Aka Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).






17. In Windows - a security account that contains one or more local user accounts - and when a computer is a member of a Windows domain - may also contain domain user or group accounts.






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






19. The process of informing the software manufacturer who the official owner or user of the product is - and providing contact information such as name - address - company - phone number - e-mail address - and so on - about them. Registration is usually






20. Things used for authentication - such as something you know - something you have - or something you are. Authentication involves one or more of these factors and can - therefore - be one-factor - two-factor - or three-factor authentication.






21. A device used to scan smart cards.






22. 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.






23. Aka cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor.






24. Aka FAT file system.






25. The box that houses the main computer system.






26. Aka permanent virtual circuit.






27. Aka uniqueness database file.






28. An LCD display setting that adjusts the viewable area of the display vertically.






29. Memory chips that provide much slower access than SRAM chips but that can store several megabytes of data on a single chip (or hundreds of megabytes - or even gigabytes - when they are packaged together on a "stick").






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. [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






32. A type of DSL service in which the download speed is higher than the upload speed.






33. An external serial bus standardized by the IEEE. Apple first developed it as FireWire. Other manufacturers call it i.link or Lynx. It can support up to 63 daisy-chained devices. Since the introduction of the faster update - IEEE 1394b - the original






34. A chip that works with a serial port - converting outgoing data from parallel to serial and incoming data from serial to parallel.






35. Aka radio frequency.






36. The boot loader file in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. During the boot loader phase - NTLDR takes control of the system - switches the CPU to protected mode - starts the file system - and reads the BOOT.INI file.






37. A chip that retains system settings such as the time - keyboard settings - and boot sequence.






38. A tool used to create and manage a distribution share and various installation images.






39. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.






40. Aka continuity RIMM.






41. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






42. A standard for interconnecting electronic musical instruments to communicate with computers and among themselves.






43. An LCD display using an old technology that has a grid of horizontal and vertical wires with a transistor at the end of each wire. When two transistors (one at the x-axis and one at the y-axis) send voltage along their wires - the pixel at the inters






44. A physical area where a Wi-Fi network connects to the Internet.






45. Not revealing information about someone that would be harmful to or embarrass him or her.






46. Aka S-Video.






47. A technology that makes 802.11n speeds possible - using multiple antennas to send and receive digital data in simultaneous radio streams that increases performance.






48. Aka digital versatile disc (DVD).






49. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.






50. Aka systray.