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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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the head of sharks by bad guys. Note to henchmen: Lasers should never be

used with sea bass, no matter how ill-tempered they might be.

laser printer Electro-photographic printer in which a laser is used as the

light source.

Last Known Good Configuration Option on the Advanced Startup

Options menu that enables your system to revert to a previous configuration

to troubleshoot and repair any major system problems.

latency Amount of delay before a device may respond to a request; most

commonly used in reference to RAM.

launchd macOS tool for automatically running tasks based on a schedule.

launcher An Android app that serves as the device’s desktop, often with

more extensive customization features than launchers provided by Google or

the device maker.

LBA (logical block addressing) Addressing scheme that presents storage

chunks on a storage device to the OS as a sequence of blocks beginning with

LBA0. This saves the OS from having to deal directly with the details of how

storage space is arranged on a hard drive or SSD.

LC Type of fiber optic connector. See fiber optic cable.

LCD (liquid crystal display) Type of display commonly used on portable

computers. LCDs have also replaced CRTs as the display of choice for

desktop computer users. LCDs use liquid crystals and electricity to produce

images on the screen.

LED (light-emitting diode) Solid-state device that vibrates at luminous

frequencies when current is applied.

Level 1 (L1) cache First RAM cache accessed by the CPU, which stores

only the absolute most accessed programming and data used by currently

running threads. Always the smallest and fastest cache on the CPU.

Level 2 (L2) cache Second RAM cache accessed by the CPU. Much larger

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