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Comptia Healthcare It+ Technician

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1. A systematic way of approving and executing changing in order to assure maximum security - stability and availability of information technology services.






2. A personal computer connection type that transfers data - usually 8 bits at a time - over eight wires and is often used for a printer.






3. Universal Serial Bus - A hardware interface standard designed to provide connections for numerous peripherals.






4. Originally frequent and repetitive postings in electronic bulletin boards; more commonly unsolicited or distasteful commercial email form - anonymous sources.






5. The mechanism by which individual hardware MAC addresses are matched to an IP address on a network.






6. A family of specification developed by the IEEE for wireless LAN technology.






7. A personal computer storage decide that stores data optically - rather than magnetically.






8. A short-range wireless radio network transmission medium usually used between two personal devices such as between a mobile phone and wireless headset. A wireless connection method that is used to communicate from one device to another in a small are






9. A command line utility used to display the connection-specific DNS suffix - IP address - subnet mask - and default gateway.






10. Time to Live - A value that determines how many hops an IP packet ca travel before being discarded.






11. The federal agency that oversees the regulation of food safety - tobacco products - prescription and over-the-counter medication - dietary supplements - vaccines - medical devices - sanitation requirements - and other related public health products a






12. A hospital that treats a wide variety of medical issues including emergencies and inpatient/outpatient care - and performs general surgeries.






13. A server that provides database services to other computers in a network.






14. A checks-and-balances systems that ensures that a patient is receiving the correct medication - the correct dose of medication at the correct time - from an authorize caregiver by requiring that bar codes storing information about the patient medicat






15. Classification for a drug or substance that has low potential for abuse as compared those in categorized in Schedule III; is currently accepted for medical use in treatment in the United States; and abuse of which may lead to limited to physical or p






16. A communication protocol that enables the transfer of files between a user's workstation and a remote host






17. The service that maps names to IP addresses on most TCP/IP networks - including the Internet.






18. Any room used to temporarily house patient when they are in transition between their patient room and another location - such as before or after testes or surgeries.






19. A piece of software created to fix problems with or provide updates to a program or application. This may include fixing known vulnerabilities or bugs - or improving functionality or performance.






20. The role - department - or individual that is formally responsible for a health record.






21. Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment - A personal computer connection that provides a parallel data channel from a disk controllers to the disk driver.






22. A health record standard that was developed by a number of American healthcare organization as a means of creating summary documents containing the most relevant pertinent information about a patient that can be shared electronically between medical






23. Derived from the Latin 'statim -' a term used to connote immediacy or urgency.






24. A doctor who serves as the frist contact for a a patient for a variety of medical services - including physicals or well-visits - and who also serves as either the diagnosing doctor or the referring doctor when a patient presents a medical condition






25. Secure Shell - A protocol for secure remote logon and secure transfer of data.






26. Individually identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium by a covered entity or business associate.






27. Application code that enables various applications to communicate with each other.






28. A network in which a central host computer controls all network communication and performs the data processing and storage on behalf of network clients.






29. A device that connects multiple network that use the same protocol.






30. The section of HIPAA that establishes a rule set to govern the use and disclosure of PHI by covered entities. The goal of the Privacy Rule is to protect a person's health information while allowing adequate transfer of information to promote efficien






31. The fundamental security goal of ensuring that electronic data is not altered or tampered with.






32. A document that defines the authorized uses of PHI and how the information is to be used and managed.






33. A protocol that provides 64-bit - 128-bit - and 256-bit encryption using the RC4 algorithm for wireless communication that uses the 802.11a and 802.11b protocols.






34. Private and non-government businesses that contract with individual or employments to help pay medical expenses. These insurers also have seperate contracts with many health organization that specify negotiated rate structures for that health organiz






35. A server-side programing languague developed by Microsoft to provide a method to create dynamic web pages.






36. A server that proves the most accurate actual time to all clients in a computer network.






37. The compilation of protocols - polices - and hardware that govern access on devices to and from a network.






38. The U.S. Agency charged with protecting the health of the population and providing various human services.






39. The VPN protocol that is an Internet standard for sending IP datagram packets over serial point-to-point links.






40. The management of performance levels of servers to ensure that critical operations are highly available to resources.






41. Authentication schemes based on individuals' physical characters.






42. A network device that modulates digital information onto an analog signal at one end - and demodulates the analog signal back to digital data - used for dial-up Internet connections.






43. An Instant messaging service that uses strong encryption to send and receive secure messages.






44. Software that provides a single system for tracking and managing compliance with medical claims audits that are performed by both government and commercial healthcare(insurance) organizations.






45. A method used to securely remove data from hard drives and other electronic storage devices.






46. A protocol used to connect to and access a remote computer.






47. A Protocol used to automatically assign IP addressing information to IP network computers.






48. A server-side programming language used to develop dynamic web pages by embedding its coded into an HTML pages.






49. Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-clinical Terms - An organized collection of numeric codes correlating to clinical information such as diseases - procedures - microorganisms - medications - and so forth that may be used in a patient's records.






50. A Windows Server computer that runs the Active Directory service. Directory information is automatically replicated between the DC's