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| ____ cards include one or more variations of PC Card, CardBus, and ExpressCard. |
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| ____ is the most popular cabling method for local networks. |
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| Wireless networks are either public, unsecured hotspots or private, secured hotspots. |
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| This latest Wi-Fi standard uses ____ technology whereby two or more antennas are used at both ends of transmission. |
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| To find out how many pages a printer has printed so that you know if you need to do the maintenance, you need to have the printer give you the ____ count since the last maintenance. |
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| A laser printer can produce better-quality printouts than a dot matrix printer, even when printing at the same dpi, because it can vary the size of the dots it prints, creating a sharp, clear image using a technology called ____. |
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| Notebooks contain many small ____________________ of various sizes and lengths. |
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| ____________________ use radio waves or infrared light instead of cables or wires to connect computers or other devices. |
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| A(n) ____________________ printer has a network port and connects directly to the network and not to an individual PC. |
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| A(n) ____ printer uses solid dyes embedded on different transparent films. |
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| Before opening the case of a notebook or touching sensitive components, you should always use a ground strap to protect the system against ____________________. |
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| Notebook computer cases tend to be similar to one another, and components in notebook systems tend to be interchangeable among manufacturers. |
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| In Windows XP, ____ mode is similar to Vista sleep mode and corresponds to ACPI S3 mode. |
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| ____ printers work by placing toner on an electrically charged rotating drum and then depositing the toner on paper as the paper moves through the system at the same speed the drum is turning. |
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| ____ is a standard for short-range wireless communication and data synchronization between devices. |
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| A(n) ____ is a group of four dotted decimal numbers such as 255.255.0.0 that tells TCP/IP if a computer’s IP address is on the same or a different network. |
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| For tablet PCs, the stylus can be controlled from the ____ box. |
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| A ____ is a device that manages traffic between two networks. |
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| When you first purchase a notebook, make sure you have a ____ CD containing the installed OS so you can recover from a failed hard drive. |
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| ____ printers tend to smudge on inexpensive paper, and they are slower than laser printers. |
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| Printer ____ is updated by replacing the printer’s DIMM that contains the code or by downloading the update from the manufacturer’s Web site. |
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| To know the IP address of a network printer, direct the printer to print a ____ page. |
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| An older PC and printer should never have a problem with bidirectional communication. |
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| The ____ command tests connectivity by sending an echo request to a remote computer. |
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| The ____________________ printer is the one Windows prints to unless another is selected. |
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