What is the computer's physical components, such as the monitor, keyboard, motherboard, and hard drive?
What is hardware
100
type of electrophotographic printer that can range from a small, personal desktop model to a large, network printer; works by placing toner on an electrically charged rotating drum.
What is Laser Printer
100
A mini-app that appears on the Windows 7 desktop or Vista sidebar.
What is gadget
100
A Physical layer standard for networks that specifies baseband transmission, twisted pair cabling, and 100-Mbps throughput.
What is 100Base-T
100
the overrall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files
What is file system
200
What is a device that is not installed directly on the motherboard?
An area to the right of the taskbar that holds the icons for running services; these services include the volume control and network connectivity. Also called the system tray or systray.
What is notification area
200
A Physical layer standard for achieving 1 Gbps over UTP. It achieves its higher throughput by using all four pairs of wires in a Cat 5 or higher twisted pair cable to both transmit and receive signals.
What is 1000Base-T
200
smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors
What is cluster
300
a drive made with flash memory
What is solid state drives
300
several print jobs accumulate in the queue
What is spooling
300
A bar normally located at the bottom of the Windows desktop, displaying information about open programs and providing quick access to others.
What is taskbar
300
A guideline for 10-Mbps Ethernet networks stating that between two communicating nodes, the network cannot contain more than x network segments connected by y repeating devices, and no more than z of the segments may be populated.
What is 5-4-3 rule
300
duplicate data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance; mirrored volume
What is RAID 1
400
a group of microchips on the motherboard that control the flow of data and instructions to and from the processor
What is chipset
400
creates a printed page by using some mechanism that touches or hits the packet
What is impact printer or dot matrix printer
400
A Windows 7/Vista feature that gives a summary index designed to measure the overall performance of a system on a scale from 1.0 to 7.9.
What is Windows Experience Index
400
The IEEE standard that describes Fast Ethernet technologies, including 100Base-TX.
What is 802.3u
400
the BIOS detects the new drive and automatically selects the correct drive capacity and configuration
What is auto-detection
500
temporarily holds both data and instructions while it is processing them
What is Primary Storage
500
use wx-based ink that is heated by heat pins that melt into ink onto the paper
What is thermal printers
500
In Windows Explorer or the Computer window, pane on the left side of the window where devices, drives, and folders are listed. Double-click an item to drill down into the item.
What is navigation pane
500
A variation of the 10GBase-LR standard that is specially encoded to operate over SONET WAN links.
What is 10GBase-LW
500
can help securely fit a hard drive that is too large for the bay