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---Enables you to plug a single Ehternet Calbe into the WAP to provde both power and a network connection

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PoE

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3-D objest in a computer gam are composed of a group of pointes called

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Vertices

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32-bit versions of windows are designed to run on which architecture?

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x86

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802.11a based wireless technology operates at

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5 Ghz

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802.11g wireless technology transfers data at up to

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54 Mbps

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8021.11b & 802.11g based wireless technologies operate at

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2.4Ghz

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__ is the act of trying to get people to give there user names, passwords or other security information by pretending to be someone else?

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Phishing

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__ software uses video and audio equipment to provide sight and sound for gaming and simulation?

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Virtual reality

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___ are antimalware programs that passively monitor your computers activity?

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Virus Shields

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___ are spare parts that you take with you to a worksite or workstation?

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FRU

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___ Cable is most commonly used in 10/100/1000BaseT Ehternet star but networks

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UTP

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___ can be an inexpensive redundant storeage option for thick clients?

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Raid 1

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___ cannot join a domain and use the windows welcom screen by default?

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xp home/media center

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___ CDR drives allow you to burn additional data onto a cdr disc until the disc is full

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Multiseesion drives

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___ certified devices connect to your network, discover each other, and share media?

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DLNA

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___ discs are often used for storing data with capacities starting at 25 gb?

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Blu-ray

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___ enables multiple computers to use an Internet connection provided by one of the computers on the network

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Internet Connection sharing (ICS)

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___ enables you to run more then one operation system at the same time on a single computer called?

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Virtualization

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___ has a security flaw that allows a hacker to guess an eight digit code

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WPS

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___ has the built-in ability to burn ISs without the need for 3rdparty tools

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Windows 7

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___ helps you track the troubleshootig history of a machine over time?

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Documenting

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___ includes physical security, authentication, the file system, users and groups, and security policies?

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Access control

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___ is a less-popular hypervisor?

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ESX

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___ is a motherboard consideration for a thick client?

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RAM support

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___ is a virtualization product that works on Mac operation system?

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Parallels

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___ is NOT a celluare technology that provides data services

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ISDN

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___ is not a charachterist of plasma display panels

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Suitable for PCs

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___ is NOT a charachtersitic of an intergrated GPU

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Uses more electricity

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___ is NOT a consideration when selecting a view card for a thick client?

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Multiple monitor support

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___ is NOT a fiber connector

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BNC-T

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___ Is NOT a main manufacture of display adapters

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Cisco

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___ is not a valid secure digital card type or form

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SDLC

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___ is not a virtual machine manager?

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Snes9x

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___ is NOT an advantage to using virtulation in research and testing environments?

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Hardware testing

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___ is NOT an iteration of the windows hardware compatiblity list

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Windows certified hardware list

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___ is not considered a good security practice when setting up a modern WAP

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Enabl WEP Encryption

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___ is not considered a minum hardware recommendation for a budget gaming PC?

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Graphics card capable of running 10 FPS

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___ is NVIDIAs technology for linking multiple graphics cards?

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Scalable link interface

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___ is the primary performance consideration for a home server PC that streams media?

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Fast network connection

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___ is the process of continous or constat downloading from a game server?

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Stream loading

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___ is the recommended monitor specification for a thick clint?

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LED backlit LCD Monitor

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___ is the ultimate authority that identifies whether hardware components are compatible with the operationg system

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Windows Logod product list

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___ is used to check hardware and software compatibility in windows xp pro

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Upgrade advisor

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___ MAkes the WPA protocol much more secure then WEP

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EAP

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___ makes WPA2 wireless networks much more secure than WPA networks

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AES

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___ melts onto the paper when a themeral printhead passes over the film ribbon?

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wax

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___ rating such as E, T, & M can be used to allow or block computer game use?

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ESRB

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___ requires a separate licensed copy when added as a virtual machine?

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Microsoft windows

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___ requires an underlying operationg system in order to create and manage virtual machines?

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Virtual machine manager (VMM)

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___ runs in the backgroud on your PC and sends information about your browing habits to the compuany that installed it on your system?

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Spyware

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___ should be updated regularly to make sure antivirus programs are as useful as possible?

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Signatures

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___ software enables one protected computer to rpovide multiple connections to the internet

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Proxy Server

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___ Uses fiber to provide DSL service directly to users home

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FTTP

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___ uses specialized imput devices referred to as control surfaces, that mimic the look and feel of older analog mixing consoles?

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Digita audio workstation

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___ will not cause an automatic restore point to be created in vista & 7?

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editing the registry

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____ are heat-sink and fan assemblies that are inclued with a retail-boxed CPU?

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OEM CPU coolers

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____ are the lights that have positive and negative sides?

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LEDs

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____ is a variant of the microATX created by Intel?

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flexATX

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____ is the smallest motherboard version in the ATX standard?

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flexATX

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_____ are less popular than other recorded formats on computers but are still fully supported by windows and all sound hardware?

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MIDI

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_____ enable you to input MIDI information using an external MIDI-enabled device?

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digital audio workstation

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_____ is a BIOS-based security feature that can track a PC's location if it is stolen?

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LoJack

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_____ is an open format that can compress sound files without losing any data?

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FLAC

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_____ is NOT a characteristic of a condenser microphone?

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inexpensive

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_____ is NOT a characteristic of any dynamic microphone?

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usually found in recording studios

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_____ is NOT a video capture and playback issue?

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outdated drivers

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______ requires a constant electrical charge and a periodic refresh of the circuts?

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DRAM

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_______ Supports direct access to the hardware for joysticks and other game controllers

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Direct input

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____is idicative of an insulation rupture on the flyback transformer of a monitor

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Hissing or sparking sounds

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___can NOT be used as alternative cabling for Ethernet

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Serial cable

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___creates a computer environment for a guest operating system to function as if were installed on its own computer?

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virtualization

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___is a complete copy of a cd that can be burned to another cd to make a duplicate

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ISO FIle

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___stores data in a unique patteron 1s and 0s

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RLL

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A __ upgrade can be performed using the built-in windows antime upgrade feature

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7 home premium to 7 ultimate

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A ___ allows a user to slect graphical items on a computer screen?

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Mouse

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A ___ appears when the red, green, and blue colors meet at the single point on a display

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Single White Dot

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A ___ connection carries both the video signal and the surround-sound audio signal and can be plugged into the television directly from the PC?

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HDMI

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A ___ emits a sound when it sense an electrical signal that is within a certain frequency

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Toner probe

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A ___ enables you to play music and watch movies and television?

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Home-theater PC

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A ___ installation installs a new OS into a different subdirectory or a different drive, leaving the old OS intact and usuable?

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multiboot

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A ___ is a circle where data is stored on a drive

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Track

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A ___ is a complete program that travels from machine to machine through computer networks and has the capability to cause malicious problems?

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worm

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A ___ is a drive that functions like a folder on another drive

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Mount point

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A ___ is a fix for a single problem within an operating system

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patch

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A ___ is a named group of functions that defines what you can do with the objuect it represents

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class object

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A ___ is a peice of malicious software that gets passed from computer to computer by attaching itself to a program?

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Virus

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A ___ is a point in time backup of a virtual machine?

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Snapshot

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A ___ is a proconfigured device that contains multiple hard drives and attaches to your network

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NAS

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A ___ is a software program that looks like one thing (such as a utility or a game) but is actually doing something else (such as modifying CMOS Settings)?

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Trojan

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A ___ is a system designed to handle only very basic applications with the absolute minimum amount of hardware required by the operationg system?

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Thin client

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A ___ is a thin, flat piece of circuit board often slightly larger then a peice of paper?

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Motherboard

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A ___ is a very small wireless network preconfigured to do a specific job

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PAN

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A ___ is an individual record for a particular user on a single computer called?

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Local user account

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A ___ is basically a headless system, that is connected to a network to share its HDD

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NAS

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A ___ is used to connect 2 ethernet networks that use completely different media, such as UTP and fiber or even UTP and wireless

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Bridge

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A ___ port was previously used to connect external modems to the PC?

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Serial

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A ___ takes standard power and converts it into power your PC can use?

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Microprocessor

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A ___ trackpoint is a pencil eraser sized joystick at the center of the keybaord?

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trackpoint

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A ___ virus attempts to change its signature to prevent detection by antivius programs?

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Polymorph

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A ____ is special circuit in a monitor that can be used to eliminate magnetic buildup

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Degaussing coil

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a ____ is used to protect power suplies from spikes of AC current?

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all of the above

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a _____ speaker installation uses either a single digital (S/PDIF) connection or three seperated cables?

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surround

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a brand new system failing due to manufacturing defects and any system failing due to a shock of electrostatic discharge is often called a ____ failure?

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burn-in

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a catastrophic faliure is usually indicated by any of the following EXCEPT:?

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increased system performance

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A computer that can boot to windows XP, Linux or windows vista is

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Dul bootable

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A computer with the ___ extension can handle drives up up to 137 GB

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INT13

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A credit card-sized card used with a PIN to prove a users identity is called a?

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Smart Card

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a DIMM in any one of the DIMM slots is referred to as?

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a bank

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A floppy drive connects to the computer via a ___ cable?

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ribbon

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A frame contains all of the following except?

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IP address

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A full-Speed USB device runs at

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12 Mbps

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A group of computers that is able to hear each other when one of thems ends a broadcast is called a?

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LAN

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A group of connected computers used for sharing information is called a?

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Network

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A hi-Speed USB Device runs at

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480 Mbps

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a high ____ produces the best recording?

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signal-to-noise ratio

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A home server PC usually fills all of the following roles except?

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virtualization

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A home theater PC uses a ___ to provide support for larger monitors at high resolution?

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HDMI

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A keyboard typically uses a ___ or ___ connector?

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USB or PS2

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A laser printer creates an image of dots called a ___ and holds it in memobre before printing it?

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Raster

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A laser printer fuser assembly is almost always separate from the?

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Toner cartridge

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A low Speed USB device runs at

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1.5 Mbps

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A mouse typically uses a ___ or ___ connector?

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USB or PS/2(Mini Dinn)

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A pc connects to a network through a ___?

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RJ-45

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A process started by windows has the ___ user name associated with it

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System

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A series of SCSI devices working together through a host adapter is called a

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SCSI chain

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A sing-purpose system, like a point of sale machine is an example of a?

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Thin client

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A single-purpose system like a point of sale machine is an example of a?

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Thin client

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A SSD hard drive may be attached to ___ add on boards

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PCIe

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A standard paralle cable used for older printers has a DB-25 connector on 1 end and a ___ connectoron the other end?

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Centronics

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A standard straight-wire omnidirectional wireless antenna is called ___

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Dipole

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A strong password should be at least ___ charachters long and contains letters, numbers and punctuation symbols?

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8

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a sudden CPU shutdown usually indicates what condition?

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overheating

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a surge supressor shoul be rated at a minimum of ______joules?

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800

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A tech toolkit usually contains a ___ a phillips-head screwdriver, and a pair of tweezers?

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Torx wrench

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A teh cleaned and installed a maintenance kit to repair a tray that was causing papers jams in a multi-tray printer. What else should she do after verify that the orginal problem is no longer present?

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Test all trays

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a UTP Cable connects a cable modem to a

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Network interface Card (NIC)

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A vidoe card uses a ___ pin female db video graphics Arrage (VGA) connector or a ___ DVI Connector?

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Digital Video Interface

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A virtual machine that is not powered on is stored as a?

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set of files

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A wide-spread group of computers connected using long-distance technologies is called a?

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WAN

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A wireless service area that can be extended by adding more WAPS is called

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EBSS

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a(n) _____ sypmtom is the most difficult difficult symptom to diagnose?

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ethereal

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about 99% of the BIOS business is controlled by two companies. which of the following is not a major BIOS manufacturer?

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Intel

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Access to all drives and folders in XP provided through?

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My computer

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Accumulated patches can be combined together into a

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service pack

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Actions or schedules that start a program are called ___ in ver 2.0 of the tas scheduler?

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triggers

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Activation is mandatory within ___ days after installing windows or the system will go into a limited use mode or be disabled

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30

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All basic Hard drive partition tables support up to ___ partitions

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Four

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All files have ___ attributes that dtermine the behavior of the file in special situations?

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4

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All home group data is ___ between systems?

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readable

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All internal and external modems have 2 ___ sockets?

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RJ-11

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All network interace cards made have what item burned into them?

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MAC address

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All of th following virtualization products are free except?

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VMware workstation

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All of the following are charachteristics of employee ID badges except?

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they are used to store encryption keys

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All of the following are characteristics of hyper-v EXCEPT?

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Requires Windows Server 2008

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all of the following are characteristics of UEFI motherboards except:?

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limited to MBR partitions less than 2.2TB

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All of the following are considered environmental controls EXCEPT?

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closed circuit cameras

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All of the following are examples of hypervisors EXCEPT?

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Virtual PC

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all of the following are general-purpose CPU regidterd EXCEPT:?

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SX

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All of the following are good password practices except?

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Only give your passwords to adminstrators

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All of the following are minimum recommended system requirements for a windows 7 64-bit thick client EXCEPT?

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DirectX11 video card

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All of the following are part of the computing process EXCEPT?

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Memory

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All of the following are prepartion tasks you should complete before even starting an updgrade or installation except

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Install drivers

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All of the following are software tools for audio/video playback except?

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Icloud

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all of the following are stages in the pipelining process EXCEPT:?

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read

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All of the following are used to edit the registry except

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taskmgr

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All of the following are ways to start task manager EXCEPT:

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Prest CTRL-SHIFT-F1

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All of the following are windows system files except

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ntoskrnl.exe

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All of the following could happen if you manually edit the registry except

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THe computer may become infectd with malware

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All of the following is stored in the registry except

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my documents

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All of the following items are typically entered when configuring IP Information except?

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MAC Address

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All of the folowing are apropriate ways to evaluate parts EXCEPT?

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Test the next lowest model

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all unused RIMM slots on an RDRAM motherboard should have a device called a _____ installed on them?

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CRIMM

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Almost all ___ modes connect to a PC or PCI Express slot inside a computer

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Internal

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AMD's answer to RDRAM was?

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DDR-SDRAM

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AMR was quickly replaced with the more advanced?

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CNR

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An 8*4*32 cdrw drive reads at a spped of

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32

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an ___ component is inside the system unit?

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internal

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An ___ installation includes a complete copy of a hard disk volume, including all preinstalled appliation software programs

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image

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An advantage of virtualization that enables a VM to be replicated is known as?

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System duplication

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An entire physical drive can be accessed as a folder on another drive by creating a

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mount point

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An Integrated Services Digital Network sends telphon transmissions acrss__ lines

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Digital

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An user that belongs only to the local users group is said to be an?

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limited user

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Any windows session begins with?

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logon

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APM & ACPI can b configured in windows setting and in?

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CMOS

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Apple ipad uses a ___ processor?

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ARM

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Aprocess name usually ends with the ___ extension

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.exe

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Assuming the wireless NIC is able to pass packets, what would you check next to resolve connectivity issues

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Wireless configuration utility

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ATA/133, ATA/100, and ATA/66 requires a ___ cable

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80 wire

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ATAPI CDROM drives have ___ PATA (IDE) connectors and master/slave jumpers

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40 pin

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ATX motherboards have a ____ feature that allows software to turn the power on and off?

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soft power

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because CPU makers cant make the processors run much quicker, they are?

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combining multiple CPUs on a single chip

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Bitlocker drive encryption requires ___ on a motherboard to validate that a vista computer has not been tampered with?

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TPM

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Brouadband cable typically offers 1-10Mbps upload speeds and ___ downloads speeds

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6-100+Mbps

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by default, what applet is used in windows vista home premium to manager user accounts?

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user accounts and family safety

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By default, windows creats a ___ everytime new software is installed?

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restore point

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Can be upgrded to windows 7 32 bit versions

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vista home premium 32 bit

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Can be used from within the windows GUI to start an upgrade to windows XP

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WINNT32.exe

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Cant be used as a prelacement batteries in other systems?

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LI-ION

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CDROM drieves use a ___ and mirrors to read the data off a CDROM

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Laser

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chipsets that support a feture called triple-channel memory usually support ___ memory?

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DDR3

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combining many CPUs) into a single chip is called:?

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multicore processing

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CPUs typically run faster than the clock. what do they use to do this?

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multipliers

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Current versions of windows allow filenames of up to?

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255 characters

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D Connectors used in PCs can have from ___ to ___ pins or sockets?

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9 & 37

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Data is moved from one pc to another is discrete chunks called?

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Frames

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Data source adminstrator enables you to create and manager ___ entries that point OBDC to a database

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DSN

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DB connectors are technically called ___ Connectors?

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D-Sub

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DDR SDRAM for desktops comes in?

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184-pin DIMMs

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DDR SDRAM for laptops comes in?

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172-pin micro-DIMMs

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Digital Cameras often use the smaller ___-sytle usb connector?

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Mini B

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digital equipment, intel and xerox invented the first network in the mid-1970s and created what eventually became?

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Ethernet

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Digitizer tablets are primarily used in ___ workstations?

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Graphics

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Disk mirroring is also know as

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RAID 1

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drivers must be signed no exceptions in?

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7 64-bit

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Each ___ of a windows computer is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:

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partition

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Each platter requires ___ heads

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2

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EAX standards were first incorprated into directX?

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8.0

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electrical surges and ESD can cause _____ failure?

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component

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Encrypted tunnels that create private networks through the internet are called

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VPNs

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Every ___ has a make, model, and a package type?

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CPU

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every device soldered to the motherboard is desighed to run at the speed of the?

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system crystal

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Every mobile device has what size audio jack for plugging in earbuds/speakers?

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3.5mm

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Everything in a PC connects either directly or indirectly to a?

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Motherboard

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expansion bays must be covered by the ___ to maintain proper airflow inside the case?

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slot cover

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External modems tradionally connected to a computer via a ___ port but often connect via a ___ usb port today?

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Serial/USB

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Firewire connectors are also know as?

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IEEE 1394

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Firewire has been replaced in pratice by all of the following except

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Serial

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five speakers with a subwoofer in the dolby digital and DTS standards is called?

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5.1

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for where can the boot option be selected?

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advanced BIOS fetures

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four bits make up a?

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nibble

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games typically use the ____ sound standard?

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directX

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gives local adminstrators access to resources whether they log on locally or remotely?

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admin share

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Giving someone jost enough permission to accomplish their tasks is called?

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principle of lest priviledge

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Hard-drive capacity is usually measured in ___ or ___?

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Gigabyte(BG) or Terabytes (TB)

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has the memory usage setting in the advanced tab of perfomrnace options?

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XP

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Homegroups were introduced in which version of windows?

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Windows 7

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how are dots put onto the surface of paper from a direct thermal printer?

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Burned

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How are mac addresses represented?

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hexadecimial characters

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How can you easily determine what version of windows your computer is running?

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Right-click My Computer/Computer and select properties

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how can you easliy clear the CMOS, including clearing the password?

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unplug the computer and short the CMOS jumper

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how can you turn off some of the automatcally loading helper applications before you start the video capture process?

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end the process or process tree in windows task manager

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how do most tecnicians access the registry

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registry editor

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How does a computer determine who should access it?

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Authntication

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How is a problem shown in device manager?

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Red "X"

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how is DC voltage represented om multimeters?

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V with a solid line above a dash line

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How is hard drive spindle speed measured

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Revolutions per minute RPM

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How is laser printer resolution measured?

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Dots per inch

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How is the amount of cpu time a process is using measure in task manager

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percentage

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How long is a mac address?

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48 bits

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How many bits does WEP encryption use to scramble data packets

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40

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how many bits make up a byte?

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8

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How many bits of video RAM are needed to display an ASCII charachter

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8

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How many cables does multimored fiber require

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2

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how many clock cycles does the CPU require to act on a command?

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at least two

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How many devices are supported by Firewire

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63

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How many devices are supported per SATA controller channel

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1

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How many different physical sizes do PC cards come in?

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3

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How many drives can be supported with ATA-2(Sometimes called EIDE)

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four

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How many extended partitions can be created on a hard drive

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one

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How many graphics card can currently be linked together with AMD crossfire technology?

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4

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How many homegroups can a computer be a member of at one time?

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1

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How many host nodes are supported on a single class C network

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254

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How many levels of the UAC did microsoft include in 7?

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4

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How many lines does the Basic Rate interface Setup use

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1

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how many MB of programs do system ROM chips store?

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2

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How many MBRs can exist on a disk

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1

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How many partitions can be active at the same time

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One

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How many PATA devices can be connected to most PCs

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4

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how many pins are in a DDR3 DIMM?

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240

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How many pins are on a typical firewire connector?

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6

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How many pins are on a VGA connector?

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15

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how many pins does a DDR3 SODIMM have?

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204

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How many pins does a FireWire Connector have

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6

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How many pins does an EIDE (PATA) drive have

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40

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How many processor cores can 32 bit editions of windows 7 use

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32

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How many processors can an ESX Server support?

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32

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How many RAM can a 64-bit processor address?

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16 terabytes

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How many root keys are in the registry

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5

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how many samples of instruments are contained on most modern sound cards?

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128

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How many seperate power supplies do laser printers typically have?

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at least 2

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How many USB devices are supported by 1 host controller

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127

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How many watts does a typical CRT Monitor consume

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120

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how many watts of power does a typical hard drive in a computer require?

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15

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how many watts of power does an Athlon64X2 CPU require at peak performance?

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110

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How many wires does the SATA interface have

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Seven

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how much RAM can 32-bit processors access?

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up to 4 GB

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how much RAM can a 64-bit processor theoretically access?

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16 EB

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How tall is a 2u Device

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305 Inches

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IEEE 1394 is also called

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SCSI

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IEEE 1394a Runs at

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400 Mbps

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IEEE 1394b runs at

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800 Mbps

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If a computer only has 1 floppy drive, it is usually assigned drive

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A:

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if the number of wires in a CPUs address bus 20, what is the maximum amount of RAM the CPU can handle?

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1,048,576 bytes

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If the product key is left blank in vista a 30 day trial of ___ can be installed

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any windows vista edition

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if windows generates parity errors with the same addresses,the ____ is probably at fault?

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RAM

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If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, disk manager will show it as ___ on the new computer

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foreign drive

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In 2012 the highest capacity bluray disk could store

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50 gb

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In a 3-D world, what is a small picture that is tiled over and over again on walls, floors, etc

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Texture

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in a touchscreen enables you to switch easily from portrait view to landscape view?

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accelerometer

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in an IWC-320 plug, which wire carries no voltage?

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neutral

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in early computers, the CPU ran at the same speed as which component?

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motherboard

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in NOT type of even that is recorded in event viewer?

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Alert

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In which component does all of the processing and storage take place?

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System Unit

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In which toplogogy has all of the computers connected to network via a main line?

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Bus

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In which topology do all computers on the network attach to a central ring of cable?

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Ring

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In which type of network organization are all systems conected to the network equal?

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Workgroup

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in windows xp & vista, the ___ command displays or alters the encryption of directories on NTFS partitions?

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cipher

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Infrared devices are capable of transferring data at up to

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4 Mbps

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installing an operating system onto a hard drive with no previous OS installed is called

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clean install

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intels's pentium and celeron series of CPUS are intened for which target marker?

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budget desktop PCs

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Internal SCSI devices connect to the host adapter with a ___ pin ribbon cable

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68

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is a valid windows 7 installation folder

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winnt

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Is a windows boot fiel

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ntoskrnl.exe

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is currently the most popular storage technology for portable hand hel devices?

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sd series

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is not a section of the xp event viewer?

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Hardware

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is NOT a service sartup type?

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enabled

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Is nOT an event type in vista/7 Event viewer?

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Alert

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is the high performance serial replacement for PC cards?

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Expresscard

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is the only way to truly protect your daa from access by any other user?

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Encryption

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is the windows xp kernal file

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ntoskrnl.exe

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is used to sync a mobile device with a system running vista/7?

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Sync center

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It is not possible to upgrade to windows XP pro from

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Windows NT Service pack 4

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large sags in electricity are also called?

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brownouts

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Laser printers uses a ___ chip to translate the raster image into commands for the laser?

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RIP

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LCD Monitors use ___________ to provde brightness for the monitor

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Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps

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main system memory is usually called:?

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DRAM

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many CMOS setup menus allow changes to the CPU, RAM, and GPU to support?

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overclocking

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many motherboards use a simple connector called a ____ to make some physical ports accessible from the front or the back of the case?

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dongle

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Memory cards, usb thumb drives, and hald held devices often uses ___ technology

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solid-state

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Micro-A and micro-B connectors are ___ Connectors?

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USB

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Microsoft has limited windows to ___ GPT partitions

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128

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Microsoft Management Console is a shell program that holds individual utilities called?

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Snap-ins

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modern CPUs since the pentium have a data bus that is ____ bits wide?

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64

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Modern PATA drives use a ___ connector for power

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Molex

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Modern PCs are showing up with what special type of port for external hard drives and optical drives?

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eSATA

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modern processors now include the functions of the traditional ______ chip on the CPU?

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MCC

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molex connectors are used for ____ power?

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peripheral

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most 8088 machine language commands need _____ byte(s)?

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1

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most case fans have standard _____ connectors that are easy to plug in?

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molex

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Most computer attachs are accomplished through?

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Social engineering

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Most digital cameras plug into

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USB Port

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Most Fiber ethernet networks use

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62.5/125 mulitmode calbe

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Most modern digital cameras use this instead of film

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SD Cards

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Most popular replacement for NI-cd batteries?

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Ni-MH

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most sound cards come with _____ connections?

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three

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most virtual machine managers replace the CTRL_ALT_Delete key sequence with?

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CTRL ATL Insert

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Most WAPs support filtering that rejects data packets that do not contain the appropriate address. What kind of address is filtered

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MAC

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Most webcams use an connection

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USB

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Motherboards use multipurpose ___ that enables the addition of optional components?

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expansion slots

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newer CPUs process instructions and commands in what type of execution?

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parallel

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nickel cadmium batteries?

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Battery memory

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NICs usually have a single ___ connection?

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RJ-45

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Nonvolatile flash memory devices uses ___ to retain data when power is turned off

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AHCI

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ntbackup doesnt give you the ___ choice after you click advanced mode?

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Registry back up advanced

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Observing someones screen or keyboard to get information such as passwords is?

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Shoulder surfing

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older computers require ______ to get sound from the CD-ROM drive to the sound card?

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audio cable

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older power supplies with 12V rails only supplied _____ of power?

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16-18 amps

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On a ___, every incoming signal on every port gets recreated and sent out to every other connected port

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Hub

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One ___ connection can replace all of the mini-audio connections?

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S/PDIF

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one billion cycles per second is equivalent to?

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1 gigahertz

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one megabyte is equvilant to ___ bytes?

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1,048,576

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One of the main jobs of the taskbar is to show the?

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Start button

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Operating Systems and appliations are often referred to as?

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Software

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Paralle ports use a ___ pin female DB connector?

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25

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PATA hard drives connect to the computer via a ___ cable?

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Similiar ribbon

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Pata, SATA, & SCSI are 3 types of ___ drives?

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Hard drives

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POST checks all of the following except?

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software

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power supplies are rated in?

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watts

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power supplies come with a standard _______ for the motherboard and iterior devices?

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connector

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PPP is a ___ used by dial-up links to the internet

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protocol

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printer uses a grid of tiny pins or printwires to strike an inked printer ribbon and procdue images on paper?

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Dot-matrix

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printers transfer data to the printer one charachter or one line at a time?

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Impact

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processes are usually referred to by their

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process identifier (PID)

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producing music by electronically emulating various instruments is called?

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FM synthesis

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Programs and data that are not currently being used by the CPU are stored on?

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HDD

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prompt command switch is expressed by using?

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/

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Ram storage is not measured in which of the following types of units?

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Megahertz

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RAM with a DDR2 pc speed rating of PC2-3200 has a core RAM clock speed of?

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100 MHz

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RAM with a DDR2 speed rating of DDR2-800 has a core RAM clock speed?

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200 MHz

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RAM with a PC rating of PC1600 has a clock speed of?

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100 MHz

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recovery ool is available from the widows install cd?

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recovery console

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Regardless of the different cables, all sub-flavors of ethernet uses the same?

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Frame type

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RJ-11 jacks are almost exclusively used for?

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Modems

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Running many processes simultaneously it is called

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multitasking

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SCSI ID numbers can range from 0 to

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15

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SDRAM comes on a stick known as a _____ on most modern PCs?

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DIMM

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SDRAM uses the ____ speed?

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clock

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Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) cards have a storage capacity of ___(in 2012)

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32 gigs to 2TB

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Selecting ___ while adding a new user in vista/7 makes the users a member of the local users group?

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Standard users

question

shorter wires can eaily handle double or quadruple the ____ speed of the motherboard?

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clock

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shows you every running process on your computer

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processes tab

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Since any SCSI device might be on the end of a chain, most manufacturers build SCSI devices that

answer

Self terminate

question

sixtyfour bits make up a?

answer

quad word

question

some ____ chips are on a motherboard handle the infared connection?

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super I/O

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Some computer compaines hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration in a

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Hidden partition

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Some devices feature a ___ to detect the position of the tablet or phone in 3-D spaces?

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Gyroscope

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Some early versions of ___ used a 25 pin connector

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SCSI

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sound cards install proprietary software to support the ___ features that are not provied by windows?

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configuration

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Special ___ drives can read, write, delete, and rewrite data to special discs?

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optical

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started the tablet pc initiatie in 2001?

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microsoft

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Strategy can reduce power consumption in portable devices?

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ofline files

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streaming media is played on the computer and immediatly?

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discharged

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System restore will not ___before restoring the system?

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prompt for a password

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The "NO BOOT DEVICE"" error message indicates a ___ problem

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Connectiity

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the 3.5 floppy drive uses the ______ connector?

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mini

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The ___ file on a cd or dvd determines if the disk is autoplay or not

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autorun.inf

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The ___ installation option inherits all previous settings, hardware, and applications

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upgrade

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The ___ is NOT n important hardware consideration in a graphics workstation?

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Sound card

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The ___ library folders are located under C:UsersPublic?

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Public

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The ___ provides the necessary electrical power for the PC to operate?

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power supply

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The ___ setting in automatic updates allows updates to download and install with no interviention?

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Automatic

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The ___ standard defines backward compatible, high speed, bidirectional paralle ports?

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IEEE 1284

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The ___ standard features a 48-bit addressing scheme

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ATA/ATAPI-6

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The ___ stores the location of the operation system boot files

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Partition boot sector

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The ___ tab in task manager can be used to stop a stubborn aplication

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Applications tab

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The ___ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS

answer

MBR

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The ___ tool in windows vista & 7 has replaced the files and setting transfer wizard

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Windows easy tranfer

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the ___ type of motherboard has a large keyboard and a split P8/P9 style of power socket?

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AT

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The ___ utility can be used to test if 2 machines can communicate with each other

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Ping

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The ___ utility can show the route a packet takes to get to its destination

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Tracert

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The ___ windows tool facitlitates object sharing between applications and computers

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Component serves

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The ___ wireless networking standards supports data throughput up to only 11 Mbps

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802.11b

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the ____ determains the type of processor RAM required for a motherboard?

answer

chipset

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the ____ handles show input and output devices such as the floppy drive and the keyboard?

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super I/O chip

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the ____ power supply has a 24-pin main motherboard connector that resembles a 20-pin P1 connector?

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EPS12 V

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the ____ slot was designed for specialized devices (modern, sound, and network cards)

answer

amr

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The _______ resolution of a monitor is determented by multiplying the number of horizontal pixels times the number of vertical pixels

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Resolution

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the action center is found in?

answer

7

question

the amount of amps and volts needed for a device to function is called?

answer

wattage

question

The amount of time a packet takes to get to its destinaton is called

answer

Latency

question

The ASCII standard defines ___ 8 bit characters?

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256

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The best tool for optimizing device drivers is?

answer

Device manager

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the cipher command works on?

answer

directories

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The color produced by a glowing phospor in a crt monitor gets what as the intensity of the electron stream increases

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brighter

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The colored stripe on a floppy cable must align with ___ on the motherboard connection

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Pin 1

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The CPU is also called the?

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Processor

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the CPU uses a series of actions to complete a task. what is the series of actons called?

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pipeline

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The device that connects to an expansion slot is generically called a?

answer

Card

question

the dolby digital sound standard is designed to support _____ channels of sound?

answer

five

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The drive technology that supports only 1 device per controller channel is

answer

SATA

question

The dye-sublimation printing techniuq is an example of what method of color printing?

answer

CKMY

question

the filename was restricted to ___ characters in older ersions of windows?

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8

question

The first universal file format was?

answer

ASCII

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the function of each LED wire is usually printed on the?

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connector

question

The HDMI connector is used for?

answer

Video, Sound, Home Theater

question

The icons in the control panel of a windows system are links to files that have a ___ extension?

answer

.CPL

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The inability of the source device to keep up with a CD/DVD burner is called

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buffer underrun

question

The internet consists of millions of computers all ove the world interwoven together throu long-distance, high-speed, fiber-optic networks called

answer

Backbones

question

The internet was designed to survice failures. What model does it use to achieve this

answer

Decentralized

question

The key preventive maintenance preformed on floppy drives is

answer

Cleaning

question

The large size of video files makes ___ an important consideration for a video workstation?

answer

Video card

question

The libraries feature which aggregates folders from multiple location and places them in a single, easy to find spot in windows explorer, is only supported in?

answer

Windows 7

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the lines at the end of POST that are used to find the operating system are called?

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bootstrap loader

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the location of a file is called its?

answer

Path

question

the LPX and NLX form factors provided an insertation slot for the ___ card?

answer

riser

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the main problem with form factors such as LPX and NLX was their?

answer

inflexibility

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The main purpose of th windows update is to allow users to?

answer

easily install high-priority updates

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the maximum dimensions of a flexATX motherboard are _____ inches?

answer

9 x 7.5

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The minimum memory requirement for a windows xp pro computer is

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64mb

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The minimum size of the boot partition for windows xp should be at least at least___gb

answer

1.5

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The mirroring technique in which each drive has its own controller is called

answer

disk duplexing

question

the most common type of power connection for devices that require 5V or 12V is a ______ ?

answer

molex connector

question

the motherboard mounts to the case via small connectors called?

answer

stand outs

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The new 7 ___ feature is a way to share files and folders as libraries?

answer

Homegroup

question

the notches in the molex connector that guide installation are called?

answer

chamfers

question

the number of diffrent doun characteristics captured during sampling is called?

answer

bit depth

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the only dedicated connector an an AT motherboard is the ___ plug?

answer

keyboard

question

The operating system is stored in a ___ partition

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primary

question

the operating system swap programs out of RAM and moves them into ____ when the computer starts running out of real RAM?

answer

page file

question

the P1 connector from the power supply is plugged into the _____ socket?

answer

P1

question

the pair of standard stereo speakers in a 2.1 speaker system are called?

answer

satellites

question

the panic button inside the PC is called?

answer

NMI

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The predominant AMD CPU package type is called a?

answer

PGA Pin Grid Array

question

The pressure roller and heated roller in a laser printer are used to?

answer

Fuse the toner to the paper

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The primary interface to the computer is the windows?

answer

dkestop

question

The primary users of graphics workstation are?

answer

Photographers

question

the process of capturing sound waves in an electronic format is called?

answer

sampling

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The process that states what a user can and cannot do on a computer is called?

answer

authorization

question

The ratio of the darkest to the lightest spots in a monitor is called

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Contrast

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The recommended amount of memory for a windows xp computer is at least ___ mb

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512

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the registry is organized in a ___ structure

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tree

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The router you connect to at the ISP called

answer

Default Gateway

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the sampling rate is measured in _____ when recording sound waves?

answer

kilohertz

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The SATA 2.0 specification has a speed of

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3gbps

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The SCCI host adapter uses the ___ to differentiate between devices

answer

SCSI ID

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the standard copy/move commands can work on only 1 ___ at a time?

answer

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