Day 1
This CompTIA exam provides a lifetime certification and is ideal for those starting an IT career.
What is Tech+?
This common input device lets users control the on-screen pointer.
What is a mouse?
This software acts as an interface between a computer's hardware and the user.
What is an operating system?
This software type is used to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
What is productivity software?
This computing model delivers services like storage and software over the internet.
What is cloud computing?
This numbering system uses the digits 0–9 and the letters A–F, commonly found in MAC addresses and memory locations.
What is hexadecimal?
This device connects your local network to the internet and assigns IP addresses to connected devices.
What is a router?
This tool in Windows lets users view and manage connected hardware devices like printers or GPUs.
What is Device Manager?
This type of software helps protect your system from viruses, malware, and spyware.
What is antivirus or security software?
This technology allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical computer.
What is virtualization?
This is the second step of the IPOS cycle, where data is transformed into useful output.
What is processing?
This unique hardware address is assigned to a network interface for communications on the physical network segment.
What is a MAC address?
This background process in Linux handles system-level tasks and typically ends in '.service'.
What is a daemon?
This web browser feature stores website credentials and auto-fills forms for convenience.
What is a password manager?
This cloud service model provides users with ready-to-use software over the internet.
What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?
This type of intellectual property protects inventions and grants exclusive rights to produce or sell them.
What is a patent?
This protocol encrypts wireless communications and is the successor to WPA2.
What is WPA3?
This file system feature records changes before they’re committed, helping with crash recovery.
What is Journaling?
This type of web threat tricks users into revealing sensitive information through fake websites.
What is phishing?
This type of AI mimics human reasoning to solve problems and make decisions but doesn't interact with the real world.
What is an chatbot?
This process converts continuous analog signals, like sound, into discrete digital values for storage and playback. (Also used in Modems)
What is digitization or analog-to-digital conversion?
This short-range wireless communication method is used for contactless payments and smart tags.
What is NFC (Near Field Communication)?
"This modern partitioning scheme supports drives larger than 2TB and more than four partitions.
What is GPT (GUID Partition Table)?
This advanced browser setting prevents websites from running malicious scripts and trackers.
What is script blocking or content security (e.g., using NoScript or browser privacy settings)?
This AI technique uses large datasets to train algorithms, enabling them to learn and improve over time.
What is machine learning?