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THE PROCESS OF STARTING THE COMPUTER AND LOADING THE OPERATING SYSTEM
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| SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE, SUCH AS CREATING DATABASE OR SPEADSHEET, WORD PROCESSING, PRODUCING GRAPHICS OR JUST ENTERTAINMENT |
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POWER ON SELF TEST |
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A COLD BOOT IS ALSO KNOWN AS
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| A SHORT PROGAM THAT RUNS THE POST, SEARCHES FOR MASTER BOOT RECORDS (MBR), LOADS INTO MEMORY SOME BASIC FILES AND THEN TURNS THE BOOT OPERATION OVER TO THE OPERATING SYSTEM |
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| WHEN THE ELECTRICAL POWER SWITCH IS USED TO TURN ON THE COMPUTER |
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| A FILE THAT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE |
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| ONE PROGRAM DOMINATING THE OPERATING SUSTEM BUT ALLOWING ANOTHER PROGRAM TO RUN WHILE IT IS IDLE |
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DIRECTORIES
ALSO REFERRED TO AS A FOLDER |
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| A FLE USED TO GROUP OTHER FILES TOGETHER IN A HIERARCHICAL FILE STRUCTURE. IT IS ANALOGOUS TO A FILE FOLDER IN A CONVENTIONAL. PAPER FILING SYSTEM. DIRECTORIES ARE REFERRED TO AS FOLDERS IN MANY OPERATING SYSTEM |
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DISK OPERATING SYSTEM
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| AN OPERATING SYSTEM TYPICALLY REQUIRING THE USER TO ISSUE TEXT LINE COMMANDS TO PERFORM OPERATION |
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| A FLOPPY DISK THAT CONTAINS THE FILES NECESSARY TO RUN A CMPUTER WITH DOS |
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| SOFTWARE THAT ENABLES PROPER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE COMPUTERAND PERIPHERAL DEVICES |
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| A COMPUTER WITH TWO OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLED |
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| THE SECOND PART OF A FILE NAME. AN EXTENSION IS TYPICALLY THREE CHARCTERS LONG AND INDICATES THE FUNCTIONS OF THE FILE |
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| INDIVIDUAL EXECUTABLE FILES THAT EXTEND DOS's FUNCTIONALITY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF ITS ITERNAL COMMANDS |
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| A PROGRAM OR COLLECTION OF DATA THAT FORMS A SINGLE UNIT |
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FILE ALLOCATION TABLE
(FAT) |
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| A TABLE USED BY THE OPRATING SYSTEM TO RE ORD AND RECALL THE LOCATIONS OF FILES ON THE DISK |
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GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
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| AN OPERATING SYSTEM ITERFACE THAT ALLOWS THE USER TO PERFORM FUNCTIONS BY SELECTING ON -SCREEN ICONS RATHER THAT BY ISSUING TEXT LINE COMANDS |
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| A SET OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE WHOLLY CONTAINED WITHIN THE COMMAND PROCESSOR PROGRAM(COMMAND.COM OR CMD.EXE) |
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| THE CORE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM |
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| A COMPUTER WITH MORE THAN TWO OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLED |
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| THE ABILITY OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT TWO OR MORE PROGRAMS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME |
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| SOFTWARE THAT PROVIDES A COMPUTER USER WITH A FILE SYSTEM STRUCTURE AND WITH A MEANS OF COMMUNICATING WITH THE COMPUTER HARDWARE |
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| A STRING OF CHARACTERS USED TO IDENTIFY A FILE's LOCATION IN THE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
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| A BIOS FUNCTION THAT ENABLES THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND CONFIGURATION OF NEW HARDWARE COMPONETS. ALSO, THE AUTOMATIC ASSIGMENT OF SYSTEM RESOURCES SUCH AS DMA CHANNELS, INTERRUPTS, MEMORY AND PORT ASSIGNMENTS |
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| MULTPLE PROGRAMS SHRING CONTROL OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM. IT IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS TIME SLICING |
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| A DATABASE THAT STORES CONFIGURATION INFORMATION |
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THE TOP OF THE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE. A ROOT DIRECTORY IS ANALOGOUS TO A FILE CABINET DRAWER IN A CONVENTIONAL, PAPER FILING SYSTEM.
A ROOT DIRECTORY IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE ROOT |
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| THE PROGRAMING CODE USED TO MAKE THE OPERATING SYSTEM |
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| A FILE THAT SUBDIVIDES THE CONTENTS OF A DIRECTORY. A SUBDIRECTORY IS ANALOGOUS TO A FOLDER WITHIN A FOLDER IN A CONVENTIONAL, PAPER FILLING SYSTEM. SUBDIRECTORIES ARE REFERRED TO AS SUBFOLDERS IN MANY OPERATING SYSTEMS. |
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| COMMANDS ISSUED BY TYPING IN TEXT AT A COMMAND PROMPT |
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| A COMPUTER ON WHICH MORE THAN ONE OPERATING SYSTEM CAN BE EXECUTED AT THE SAMETIME |
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| USING THE RESET BUTTON OR KEY COMBINATION, (CTRL,ALT, AND DELETE) TO RESTART A COMPUTER THAT IS AREADY RUNNING. A WARM BOOT CAN ALSO BE INITIATED BY A SOFTWARE PROGRAM AS PART OF A TYPICAL INSTALLATION SUCH AS INSTALLING A GAME |
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| A COLLECTION OF TRANSISTORS, RESISTORS, AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS REDUCED TO AN EXTREMELY SMALL SIZE |
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THREE COMMON CODES ASSOCIATED WITH PC ARE
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| HEXADECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM |
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A SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL NUMBERS ARE EXPRESSED IN COMBINATION OF 16 ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER (0-F)
ALSO KNOWN AS THE BASE 16 |
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A MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIA CONSISTING OF A SET OF
MAGNETIC DISK AND READ/WRITE HEAD HOUSED INSIDE
A HARD CASE |
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| A BUS USED TO MOVE DATA BETWEEN COMPONETS |
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| A COLLECTION OF CONDUCTOR THAT CONNECT MULTIPLE COMPONETS ALLOWING THEM TO WORK TOGETHER FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE |
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| A FEATURE OF SOME BUSES THAT ALLOWS DATA TO BE TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY BEWEEN TWO DEVICES WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF THE CPU |
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| A NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN WHICH A SINGLE CONDUCTOR CONNECTS TO ALL COMPUTERS ON THE NETWORK |
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A CIRCUIT BOARD COVERED BY A MAZE OF CONDUCTORS THAT PROVIDE ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO THE COMPUTER COMPONENTS AND EXPANSION SLOTS. ALSO USED TO REFER TO THE MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD AND ALL OF ITS ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS
(CHIPSET) |
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| SIDE BY SIDE. IN PARALLEL TRANSFER MORE THEN ONE BIT OF DATA IS TRANSFERRED AT A TIME |
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| OCCURING ON AT A TIME. IN SERIAL TRNSFER DATA IS TRANSMITTED ONE BIT AT A TIME |
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| OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT USED TO INPUT OR OUTPUT DATA |
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A VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM INTO WHICH PROGRAM ARE LOADED
WHEN THE COMPUTER'S POWER IS SHOUT OFF, ALL DATA STORED IN RAM IS LOST |
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AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHAGE
(ASCII) |
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THE FIRST ATTEMP TO STANDARDIZE COMPUTERS CHARACTER CODES AMOG
THE VARIETES OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE |
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| CERTIFICATION AWARDED ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE compTIA + EXAM |
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| THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BYTES A COMPUTER CAN PROCESS AT ONE TIME |
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| A DRIVE BAY DESIGNED TO ACCOMADATE THE EASY HOT SWAP OF DEVICES SUCH AS HARD DISK DRIVES, TAPE DRIVES, CD-RW DRIVES ANDDVD DRIVES |
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THE COMPONET THAT SUPPLIES THE VOLTAGE TO THE CMOS CHIP.
WITH OUT THE BATTERY THE INFORMATION STORED IN THE CMOS CHIP WOUL BE LOST EVERY TIME THE COMPUTER WAS SHUT OFF |
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COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SMICONDUTOR
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| CMOS= THE CHIP THAT STROES THE BIOS SETUP PROGRAM DATA |
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BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM
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FIRMWARE |
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| SPECIAL FIRMWARE THAT PERMITS THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE CPU AND DEVICES SUCH AS THE HARD DRIVE, CD-ROM DRIVE AND MONITOR |
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| CMOS SETUP ( OR BIOS SETUP) |
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A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF HARD DRIVE AND OTHER STORAGE SYSTEM IN THE PC.
SETUP A PASSWORD FOR ACCESSING THE PC AND THE CMOS SETUP PROGRAM SELECTS CERTAIN POWER MANAGEMENT FEATURES AND SELECTS THE BOOT ORDER OF BOOTABLE DEVICES |
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A SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL NUMBERS ARE EXPRESSED AS COMBINATION OF 0 AND 1
ALSO KNOW AS THE BASE 2 NUMBER SYSTEM |
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| A STRAP, TYPICALLY WORN AROUND THE WRIST THAT CONNECTS THE TECHNICIAN TO GROUND AND BLEED OFF ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE |
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SHORT FOR BINARY DIGIT.
A BIT IS A SINGLE BINARY UNIT OF ONE OR ZERO |
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| A NOT-FOR-PROFIT VENDOR-NEUTRAL ORGANIZATION THAT CERTIFIES THE COMPETENCY LEVEL OF COMPUTER SERVICES |
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| A FAN THAT SUPPLIES A CONSTANT STREAM OF AIR ACROSS THE COMPUTER COMPONENTS |
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INFORMATION, WHICH CAN BE PRESENTED IN
ALPHA/NUMERIC FORM(SUCH AS ABC OR 123), VISUAL
FORM(PICTUREAS) AND AUDIBLE FORM(MUSIC/VOCIES) |
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ELETROSTATIC DISCHAGE
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A RELASE OF ENERGY (ELECTICAL CURRENT),
CREATED WHEN AN OBJECT WITH AN ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE MAKES CONTACT WITHA CONDUCTOR |
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CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
(CPU) |
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THE BRAIN OF THE COMPUTER. MOST OF THE COMPUTER'S CALCULATING TAKES PLACE IN THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT.
IN P.C.'s THE CENTRAL PROCESSING FUNCTINS ARE CARRIED OUT BY A SINGLE CHIP WHICH IS CALLED A MICROPROCESSOR |
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| AN ASSEMBLAGE OF ELECTRONICS MMODULES THAT INTERACTS WITH SOFTWARE TO CREAT, MODIFY, TRANSIMIT, STORE AND DISPLAY DATA |
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| CONNECTORS THAT ALLOW DEVICES TO BE QUICILY AND EASILY PLUGGED INTO THE BUS SUSTEM |
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| A BOARD THAT CAN BE EASILY INSTALLED IN A COMPUTER TO ENHANCE OR EXPAND IS CAPATABLITES |
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| A SYSTEM THAT USES DISCRETE VALUES |
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| A SYSTEM USING A CONTINUOUS ,INFINITE RANGE OF VALUES |
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A TECHNOLOGY TAHT ALLOWS A COMPUTER DEVICES TO BE PLUGGED INTO OR UNPLUGGED FROM A COMPUTER WHILE THE COMPUTE IS RUNNING
ALSO, THE ACT OF PLUGGING AND UNPLGING A DEVICE FROM A COMPUTER WHILE THE COMPUTER IS RUNNING |
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