CompTIA A_ Certification All-In-One Exam Guide, Seventh Edition - Michael Meyers [525]
Flip 3D feature, of user interface, 9396
floating point unit (FPU)
floppy disks
floppy drive controllers
floppy drives
boot sector
cabling
CMOS settings
installing
power supply
stepper motor used by
troubleshooting
types of removable media
flow control (handshaking)
flux reversal
FLV files
FM synthesis
focus, when performing work
Folder permissions (NTFS)
folders
changing to different (CHDIR or CD command)
encrypting. See encryption
folder focus of command prompt
NTFS Folder permissions
removing
SFC (System File Checker)
Shared Documents folders (Windows XP)
sharing
targeted sharing
Windows Explorer
working with from command line
follow-up
FORFILES command
form factors
digital cameras
Mini-ITX
power supplies
proprietary
SFF (small form factor)
Shuttle Form Factor
tablet PCs
FORMAT command
formatting hard drives
defined
Disk Management utility for
FAT16
FAT32
FORMAT command
fragmentation
high-level formatting
NTFS
Windows Installation CD for
Windows Vista Installation DVD for
Forté Free Agent
FPSs (first-person shooters) games
FPU (floating point unit)
fragmentation
frames, networking
FreeMeter, diagnosing excessive disk thrashing
freeware
CCleaner, registry maintenance
CPU-Z program
SpeedFan utility
frequency, sound
front porch setting, video cards (caution)
frontside bus
quad-pumped
front-view projectors
FRUs (field replaceable units)
FSTW (Files and Settings Transfer Wizard)
FSUTIL command
FTP service
fuel cells, portables
Full-Speed USB
function key (FN), on laptops
fuser assembly, laser printers
fuser, printers
fuses, power supplies
fusing images, laser printers
G
gadgets (Microsoft)
gain, antennae
GameCube’s Zelda game
games
computing process in
MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)
online games
OpenAL AP
Second Life
sound card benchmarking
stream loading
GART (Graphics Address Remapping Table)
Gates, Bill
Gator, e-wallet utility
GB (gigabytes)
GDI (graphical device interface)
gear packs/gearboxes, laser printers
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
general protection fault (GPF)
general-function ports
geometry
data storage on hard drives
physical vs. logical in ATA drives
getting information regarding error messages
ghost images, laser printer problems
ghosting drives
ghost-in-the-machine problems
Gigabit auto-sensing cards
Gigabit Ethernet
gigabytes (GB)
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
GParted, partitioning tool for Linux
GPF (general protection fault)
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)
GPUs (Graphical Processing Units)
Grand Unified Boot Manager (GRUB)
granular control, with Group Policy
graphical device interface (GDI)
graphical mode errors, Windows installation
Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
Graphics Address Remapping Table (GART)
graphics processors
3-D games and
selecting
graphics video cards
grayscale depth, of scanners
grayware
network security
prevention
Group Policy, access control
groups
access control
adding/changing
authentication
authorization
managing
security risks of default accounts
GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Manager)
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)
Guest group
security risks of default accounts
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows XP
GUI, failure to load
H
H.264 codec
hackers, infiltration by
hacking, vs. social engineering attacks
half-duplex mode, UTP Ethernet
hand scanners, types of bar code readers
handshaking (flow control)
handwriting recognition
PDAs/smartphones
tablet PCs
troubleshooting
Hard Drive Initialization Wizard
hard drives
actuator arm technologies
ATA-1
ATA-2
ATA-3
ATA-4
ATA-5
ATA-6
ATA-7
autodetection of ATAPI drives
autodetection of hard drive controllers
BIOS support
boot order settings
boot sector
bus mastering and
in computing process (game example)
connecting PATA drives
connecting SATA drives
connecting SCSI drives
cylinders
data encoding and
data recovery
device drivers
formatting. See formatting hard drives
geometry of data storage on
heads