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CompTIA ITF+ Part 3 Flashcards

To learn the material pertaining to the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam

1
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What language do computers “understand”?

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‘Machine language’

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What programming language is closest to machine language?

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‘Assembly language’

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3
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What do programmers often start with?

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‘A flow chart of expected steps and outcomes (pseudocode)’

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What is data?

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‘Raw facts that are systems and processes generate and collect on a regular basis’

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What is information?

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‘Data that has been processed and analyzed’

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What are the three different ways that businesses can legally protect their intellectual property against theft and misuse?

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‘Copyrights

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What is copyright used to protect?

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‘Creative works against theft’

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How is copyright granted?

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‘Copyright protection is automatically granted to the creator of a work once they create it’

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What are trademarks used to protect?

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‘Trademarks are used to protect the words and symbols used to identify products and services. The information protected by trademark includes brand names

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How are trademarks granted?

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‘The owners of trademarks must register their marks with the government to achieve full protection in the US.’

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What are patents for?

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‘Patents protect inventions providing the inventor with the exclusive use of their invention for some period of time.’

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What are the criteria for granting a patent?

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‘An inventor must demonstrate that their idea meets three criteria. First

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What are the basic units of storage in any computer system?

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‘A bit

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How is data stored on magnetic and solid-state drives?

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‘When we store data on a magnetic hard drive

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What is a petabyte?

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‘1000 terabytes’

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How is network capacity measured?

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‘Throughput which is the speed by which a network can transfer data in bits per second’

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17
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What do wired networks use?

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‘Copper wires to transmit pulses of electricity’

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What do wireless networks use?

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‘Radio waves to transmit radio signal pulses’

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What do fiber optic networks use?

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‘Strands of glass to transmit pulses of light’

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What are the terms used to discuss network speed, aside from throughput?

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‘Capacity and bandwidth’

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What is the unit of measurement for the speed of a CPU?

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‘Multiples of Hertz’

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What is a hertz in relation to a CPU?

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‘CPUs have internal clocks that time

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23
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What is the typical Hertz multiple used for modern computer processors?

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‘Gigahertz

24
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What is hexadecimal notation?

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‘Each digit can store 16 possible values

25
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What is ASCII?

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‘The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is the most common character encoding format for text data. In standard ASCII-encoded data

26
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What is Unicode?

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‘an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts

27
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What is the most basic data type?

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‘A Boolean object

28
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What are the two basic form of numeric values stored in memory?

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‘1) Integers are values that do not have decimal or fractional parts. 2) Floating point numbers or floats are numbers that do have decimal places associated with them. The precision of a floating-point number indicates how many decimal places may be used with that number.’

29
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What is the data type of a single character of text and how much memory does it consume?

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‘Char

30
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What are character strings?

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‘Character strings consist of one or more characters strung together

31
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What are the eight steps for troubleshooting technology?

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‘1) Identify the problem 2) Conduct some research’

32
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What are servers?

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‘Servers are powerful computers that carry out a dedicated function. Companies might use servers to share files internally

33
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What is IoT?

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‘We use the term Internet of Things or the acronym IoT to describe the way that we connect many everyday devices to the internet.’

34
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What are ICS systems?

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‘Industrial control systems

35
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What are the two brands of processors used in Windows and Macs respectively?

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‘Windows: Intel and AMD Mac: Intel and Apple’

36
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What processor did Apple release in 2020?

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‘The M1 processor’

37
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Aside from the clock speed, what are two other measurements for CPUs?

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‘CPUs are also measured in terms of their number of processing cores. Basically

38
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Why can we expect that 64-bit processors will be around for quite some time?

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‘A 64-bit processor can manage 17 billion gigabytes of memory

39
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Who is leading provider of microprocessors?

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‘ARM’

40
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What is UEFI? What is its role? What use to perform its function?

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‘When a computer starts up

41
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What are the two types of disk drives?

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‘Magnetic or solid-state’

42
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What is a NIC and where are there typically?

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‘A network Interface Card is typically directly on the motherboard; they provide the ability to connect to both wired and wireless networks.’

43
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What is a GPU?

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‘A graphic processing unit are powerful processors designed to perform the intensive calculation that are required to render complex graphics on the display.’

44
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What technology is used by most peripherals to make it easier for users to install them?

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‘Plug and play’

45
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What is this connector? What should you know about it?

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‘VGA; used by older displays and can only support a low resolution (640 x 480)’

46
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What is this connector? What should you know about it?

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‘HDMI; able to carry both audio and video on the same wire and support high resolution video up to 5K an beyond’

47
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What is this connector? What should you know about it?

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‘Mini Displayport; offers high-resolution up to 5K and beyond’

48
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What is this connector? What should you know about it?

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‘Displayport; offers high-resolution up to 5K and beyond’

49
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What is Thunderbolt?

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‘Thunderbolt is a hardware interface standard designed by Intel that allows both data and power to be sent over the same wire. The first two versions of Thunderbolt used mini- DisplayPort connectors

50
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What are the two categories of storage?

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‘Volatile storage (temporary i.e.

51
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How do magnetic and solid-state drives compare?

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‘Magnetic drives provide inexpensive storage that’s relatively slow. These magnetic hard drives contain platters of magnetic material that spin around very quickly inside the computer

52
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How is an RJ-11 different from an RJ-45?

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‘The RJ-11 is smaller and only has six pins.’

53
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What is a PAN?

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‘Personal Area Network

54
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What is NFC?

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‘Near field communication or NFC technology allows extremely short-range wireless connections for two devices to communicate using NFC. They need to be no more than a couple of inches apart.’

55
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What is DSL?

A

‘The digital subscriber line

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