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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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change management A well-defined process composed of many planning

and execution steps that enables organizations to change their IT

infrastructure in a safe, cost-effective manner.

channel Used in a common method for numbering boot devices; the first

boot device is channel 1, the second is channel 2, and so on.

charms In Windows 8 and 8.1, tools located in the hidden Charms bar, such

as a search function, a sharing tool, a settings tool, and more.

Charms bar The location in Windows 8 and 8.1 of the charms tools.

Accessed by moving the cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen.

chassis intrusion detection Feature offered in some chassis that trips a

switch when the chassis is opened.

checkpoint Also known as a snapshot. Saves changes to a virtual machine’s

state. Checkpoints are great for performing maintenance with a safety net, but

they aren’t a complete backup, and many snapshots can slow a VM down.

Get rid of them when the danger has passed.

checksum Value generated from some data, like a file, and saved for

comparing to other checksums later. Can be used to identify identical data,

such as files on a user’s system that match known viruses. Checksums can

also be used to monitor whether a program is changing itself over time,

which is a strong warning sign that it may be malware that evolves to avoid

detection.

chipset Electronic chips, specially designed to work together, that handle all

of the low-level functions of a PC. In the original PC, the chipset consisted of

close to 30 different chips. For most of the 1990s and 2000s, chipsets usually

consisted of one, two, or three separate chips embedded into a motherboard.

Today’s CPUs have controllers built in, such as the memory and display

controllers. Almost all chipsets are now a single chip.

chkdsk (checkdisk) Hard drive error detection and, to a certain extent,

correction utility in Windows, launched from the command-line interface.

Originally a DOS command (chkdsk.exe); also the executable for the

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