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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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mass storage Hard drives, optical discs, removable media drives, etc.

matte Laptop screen finish that offers a good balance between richness of

colors and reflections, but washes out in bright light.

MBR (master boot record) Tiny bit of code that takes control of the boot

process from the system BIOS.

MCC (memory controller chip) Chip that handles memory requests from

the CPU. Although once a special chip, it has been integrated into the chipset

or CPU on modern computers.

md (mkdir) Command-line tool used to create directories.

MDM (mobile device management) A formalized structure that enables an

organization to account for all the different types of devices used to process,

store, transmit, and receive organizational data.

measured service Billing model cloud service providers use to charge for

services in small increments based on the computing resources the customer

consumes.

media access control See MAC (media access control) address.

mega- Prefix that stands for the binary quantity 1,048,576 (2 20 ) or the

decimal quantity of 1,000,000. One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One

megahertz, however, is a million hertz. Sometimes shortened to Meg, as in “a

286 has an address space of 16 Megs.”

memory Device or medium for temporary storage of programs and data

during program execution. Synonymous with storage, although it most

frequently refers to the internal storage of a computer that can be directly

addressed by operating instructions. A computer’s temporary storage capacity

is measured in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), or gigabytes (GB) of RAM

(random-access memory). Long-term data storage on hard drives and solidstate

drives is also measured in megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.

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