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100

The process by which the processor slows down to conserve power.

Throttling

100

The Federal organization that regulates AI-generated content usage in political advertising.

There is not one. No Federal entity is regulating this.

100

The server responsible for resolving an IP address from a domain name.

Domain Name Server, or DNS

100

Taleo, Workday, Workable, and Greenhouse are all examples of this.

Applicant Tracking System

100

The most common video cable type you’d expect to use when hooking a SOHO projector up to a classroom in 2026.

HDMI

200

This cable type and USB-C share the same oval shaped connector.

Thunderbolt 3

200

Microsoft recently rolled out support for this AI powered assistant into every M365 enterprise plan, allowing it to be used while assuring everyone that their corporate data totally won’t be harvested.

Copilot

200

This 1992 movie was based off an original screenplay about virtual reality technology and the early Internet as well as a Stephen King short story about yard maintenance.

The Lawnmower Man

200

When you should report job offers, promotions, raises, and other milestones to Tech Foundry.

Immediately.

200

This device connects AV over IP devices together and distributes the video across the network.

Network Switch (as opposed to an AV switch, or a KVM switch)

300

The two hardware components that need to support virtual technology if a user wants to use virtualization.

CPU and BIOS. (Don’t be mad at me, this is straight from CompTIA)

300

Name shared by both the short story collection by Isaac Asimov and a 2004 film starring Will Smith.

“I, Robot”

300

How Will Smith’s character, Will, who was west Philadelphia born and raised, spent most of his days on the playground in this 1990 sitcom.

“Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin all cool”

300

This is where you can find and edit your URL on LinkedIn so that your resume doesn’t have a link that reads FirstName-Lastname32876598127354876125476

The profile page. It’s right there in the upper right. Honestly. Why do all of you have numbers still.

300

The company responsible for the popular TSW 70 series, among other unified solutions controlling lighting, audio, security, displays and more.

Crestron

400

The year when Mobile Suit Gundam first aired in Japan, premiering on the Nagoya Broadcasting Network.

1979

400

The broad field of AI that focuses on developing algorithms that allow computers to learn from and make predictions based on data.

Machine Learning

400

A Layer 2 process that allows you to subdivide a network to reduce broadcast traffic.

Virtual Local Area Network, or VLAN

400

Google Images was created thanks to the this person’s iconic dress at the 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000.

Jennifer Lopez

400

The title for James Blunt’s 2005 smash hit, allegedly about the casting assistant for the Harry Potter films.

You’re Beautiful

500

The socket type for the sweet new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8-core processor you found.

AM5

500

The specialization for convolutional neural networks (CNN).

Image and video analysis.

500

The subnet mask best represented by the CIDR notation /26

255.255.255.192

500

Give your elevator pitch.

Good Job, presumably!

500

The primary concern of an AV Designer regarding the design of a building’s HVAC system.

Noise, or reducing noise.