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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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ISP (Internet service provider) Company that provides access to the

Internet, usually for money.

ITX A family of motherboard form factors. Mini-ITX is the largest and the

most popular of the ITX form factors but is still quite small.

iwconfig Linux command for viewing and changing wireless settings.

jack (physical connection) Part of a connector into which a plug is

inserted. Also referred to as a port.

jailbreaking Process for circumventing the security restrictions present on

an iOS device.

joule Unit of energy describing (in this book) how much energy a surge

suppressor can handle before it fails.

joystick A type of game controller. Commonly used for flight-simulator

games.

jumper Pair of small pins that can be shorted with a shunt to configure

many aspects of PCs. Often used in configurations that are rarely changed,

such as master/slave settings on IDE drives.

Keep my files Windows Recovery Environment option in Windows 10 that

rebuilds the OS, but preserves user files, settings, and Microsoft Store

applications (while deleting all other applications on the system).

Kerberos Authentication encryption developed by MIT to enable multiple

brands of servers to authenticate multiple brands of clients.

kernel Core portion of program that resides in memory and performs the

most essential operating system tasks.

kernel panic The Linux equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). An

error from which the OS can’t recover without a reboot. See BSoD.

key fob Generically, just about anything attached to a key ring that isn’t a

key. Some security tools, such as hardware security tokens and RFID

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