List of CompTIA acronyms and a way to memorise them.

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ACL 	 Access Control List 
AD  	 Active Directory 
ADSL 	 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 
AFP 	 Apple File Protocol 
AH 	Authentication Header 
AM 	Amplitude Modulation 
AMI 	 Alternate Mark Inversion 
APIPA 	 Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing 
ARP 	 Address Resolution Protocol 
ATM 	Asynchronous Transfer Mode 
AV 	Anti–Virus 
BDC 	Backup Domain Controller 
BERT 	Bit-Error Rate Test 
BIND 	 Berkeley Internet Name Domain 
BNC 	 British Naval Connector / Bayonet Niell-Concelman  
BootP 	 Boot Protocol  /Bootstrap Protocol 
BRI  	Basic Rate Interface 
BSD  	Berkeley Software Distribution 
CDFS 	CD-ROM File System 
CHAP 	 Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol 
CIFI 	 Common Internet File System 
CNAME 	Canonical Name 
CRAM-MD5  	Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism – Message Digest 5 
CSMA / CA  	Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance 
CSMA / CD  	Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection 
CSNW  	Client Services for NetWare 
CSU  	Channel Service Unit 
dB	 decibels 
DC	 Domain Controller 
DHCP 	 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 
DLC 	 Data Link Control 
DNS 	 Domain Name Service / Domain Name Server / Domain Name System 
DSL 	 Digital Subscriber Line 
DSU 	Data Service Unit 
EAP 	 Extensible Authentication Protocol 
EFS 	 Encrypting File System 
EMI 	ElectroMagnetic Interference 
FAT  	File Allocation Table 
FDDI 	 Fiber Distributed Data Interface 
FDDI 	 Fiber Distributed Data Interface 
FDM 	Frequency Division Multiplexing
FHSS 	 Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum 
FM 	Frequency Modulation 
FQDN 	 Fully Qualified Domain Name / Fully Qualified Distunguished Name 
FTP 	 File Transfer Protocol 
GBIC 	 Gigabit Interface Converter 
Gbps 	 Giga bits per second 
GPO 	 Group Policy Object 
GSNW  	Gateway Services for NetWare 
HDLC 	 High-Level Data Link Control 
HTTP 	 Hypertext Transfer Protocol 
HTTPS 	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure 
Hz	 Hertz 
IANA 	 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 
ICA 	Independent Computer Architecture 
ICMP  	Internet Control Message Protocol 
ICS 	 Internet Connection Sharing 
IEEE 	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 
IGMP 	 Internet Group Multicast Protocol 
IIS	 Internet Information Server 
IKE 	Internet Key Exchange 
IMAP4 	 Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 
IP 	Internet Protocol 
IPSec 	 Internet Protocol Security 
IPv4 	 Internet Protocol version 4 
IPv6 	 Internet Protocol version 6 
IPX 	 Internetwork Packet Exchange 
IPX / SPX  	 Internetwork Packet Exchange / Sequence Packet Exchange 
IRC 	Internet Relay Chat 
ISA 	 Industry Standard Architecture 
ISDN	 Integrated Services Digital Network 
ISM 	 Industrial, Scientific, and Medical 
ISP 	 Internet Service Provider 
IT	 Information Technology 
Kbps 	Kilobits per second 
L2F 	 Layer 2 Forwarding 
L2TP 	 Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol 
LAN	  Local Area Network 
LC	 Local Connector 
LDAP 	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 
LED 	 Light Emitting Diode 
LLC 	 Logical Link Control 
LPD 	 Line Printer Daemon 
LPR 	 Line Printer Remote 
MAC 	 Media Access Control / Medium Access Control 
MAU 	 Multistation Access Unit 
Mbps 	Megabits per second 
MBps	 Megabytes per second 
MDI 	 Media Dependent Interface 
MDIX 	 Media Dependent Interface Crossover 
MIB 	 Management Information Base 
MMF 	MultiMode Fiber 
MSAU  	MultiStation Access Unit 
MS-CHAP 	 Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol 
MT-RJ 	 Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack 
MX 	Mail Exchanger 
NAT 	Network Address Translation 
NCP 	NetWare Core Protocol 
NDS 	NetWare Directory Services 
NetBEUI  	Network Basic Inuput / Output Extended User Interface 
NetBIOS 	 Network Basic Input / Output System 
NFS	 Network File System 
NIC 	Network Interface Card 
NIS 	Network Information Service 
NLM 	 NetWare Loadable Modulue 
nm	 nanometer 
NNTP  	Network News Transport Protocol 
NT  	 New Technology 
NTFS 	 New Technology File System 
NTP	  Network Time Protocol 
OCx 	Optical Carrier 
OS 	Operating Systems 
OSI 	Open Systems Interconnect 
OSPF  	Open Shortest Path First 
OTDR 	 Optical Time Domain Reflectometer 
OU 	Organizational Unit 
PAP  	Password Authentication Protocol 
PC 	Personal Computer 
PCI 	Peripheral Component Interconnect 
PCMCIA 	 Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 
PDC 	 Primary Domain Controller 
POP3 	 Post Office Protocol version 3 
POTS  	Plain Old Telephone System 
PPP 	Point-to-Point Protocol 
PPPoE  	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet 
PPTP 	 Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol 
PRI  	 Primary Rate Interface 
PSTN 	 Public Switched Telephone Network 
PVC 	 Permanent Virtual Circuit 
QoS 	 Quality of Service 
RADIUS 	 Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service 
RAID 	 Redundant Array of Independent Disks / Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 
RARP 	 Reverse Address Resolution Protocol 
RAS 	 Remote Access Service 
RDP 	 Remote Desktop Protocol 
RFI 	Radio Frequency Interface 
RG	 Radio Grade 
RJ 	Registered Jack 
RSA  	Rivest, Shamir, Adelman 
S / MIME  	Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 
SC   	Standard Connector  / Subscribor Connector 
SCP 	 Secure Copy Protocol 
SFF  	Small Form Factor 
SFTP  	Secure File Transfer Protocol 
SLIP 	 Serial Line Internet Protocol 
SMB 	 Server Message Block 
SMF 	 Single Mode Fiber 
SMS 	 Storage Management Services 
SMTP 	 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 
SNMP 	 Simple Network Management Protocol 
SOA 	Start of Authority 
SOHO 	 Small Office / Home Office 
SONET 	Synchronous Optical Network 
SPS 	 Standby Power Supply 
SPX 	 Sequence Packet Exchange 
SSH 	Secure Shell 
SSID 	 Service Set Identifier 
SSL 	 Secure Sockets Layer 
ST  	 Straight Tip 
STP 	 Shielded Twisted Pair 
T1 	 T-Carrier Level 1 
TA 	Terminal Adaptor 
TCL 	 Terminal Control Language 
TCP 	 Transmission Control Protocol 
TCP / IP  	Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol 
tcsh 	 turbo C shell 
TDR 	 Time Domain Reflectometer 
TFTP 	 Trivial File Transfer Protocol 
TTL  	Time to Live 
UDP 	 User Datagram Protocol 
UNC	 Universal Naming Convention 
UPS 	 Uninterruptible Power Supply 
URL 	 Uniform Resource Locator 
USB 	Universal Serial Bus 
UTP 	 Unshielded Twisted Pair 
VLAN	  Virtual Local Area Network 
VPN 	Virtual Private Network 
WAN 	 Wide Area Network 
WAP	 Wireless Application Protocol / Wired Access Point 
WEP 	 Wired Equivalent Privacy 
WINS 	 Window Internet Name Service 
WPA 	 Wi-Fi Protected Access 
www 	 World Wide Web 
XML	 Extensible Markup Language 
Zeroconf 	Zero Configuration 

Since I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for books, I though I'd get a head start.

 

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Thanks for this The Zig. Really helpful.

 

Great suggestion I just took the 801 yesterday and Ports were on several questions so it was important to at lest know the major ones HTTP, HTTPS, DNS and so on

 

Hi. First post and I have to say that this thread is very helpful. Thanks to he OP for the effort

 

There are some good android apps on google play by myitstudy. You can use them to memorize the terms and concepts.

 

Just wondering if this is still active. I wasn't able to import them into Mnemosyne, kept getting errors.

 

You have a non utf-8 file. a lot of people think any old random text file is valid UTF-8, that is not actually the case.

UTF-8 can have single byte and multi byte characters in the same file. Its really a condensed form of Unicode, its not ASCII.

Any byte matching the pattern 10XXXXXX (0x80 to 0xBF) can only be a second or subsequent byte of a multi byte character in a UTF-8 encoding.

 

Nice! thanks, but how do I import it?

 

Make it UTF-8 ?

This means replacing the invalid byte sequence with a valid byte sequence, or simply removing it.

You could remove the entire line if unsure, unfortunately if the person who created the file was that careless there could be multiple non UTF-8 characters and you will need to replace them all.

Some text editors like Notepad2 or Textpad++ have a 'save as UTF-8' feature, you could try it.

https://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Converting_files_to_UTF-8

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
https://www.textpad.com/
https://www.eclipse.org/

Maybe try learning what a file encoding is rather than a load of pointless acronyms?

You can look at the file in hexadecimal using a hex editor.
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

If you search for 0x96 Hex you will find the problem byte, it should be 949 bytes into the file.

Looking at this table :
http://www.ascii-code.com/

0x96 is an extended ASCII character for a dash called 'En dash' and it looks like this '–'

150 226 96 10010110 – – – En dash

Extended ASCII is not valid UTF-8. Since ASCII is one of the most common encodings its likely someone pasted Extended ASCII into the UTF-8 file. UTF-8 supports standard ASCII so that is where people get confused.

Try reading this:-
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003...-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

 

Zig, Bro thanks for this thread! It was super helpful

I have shared some Comptia A+ 220-901 plain memorization info, hope it will help someone as it helped me

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DHCP     Domain Host Configuration Protocol udp/67-68
DNS    Domain Name System udp,tcp 53
LDAP    Lightweight Directory Access Protocol tcp,udp/389
SNMP    Simple Network Management Protocol udp/161
SMB    Secure Message Block tcp/445
SSH    Secure Shell tcp/22
AFP    Apple Filing Protocol tcp/548
SLP    Service Location Protocol tcp,udp/427
FTP    File Transfer Protocol tcp/20 tcp/21
Telnet    Telecomunication Network tcp/23
SMTP    Secure Mail Transfer Protocol tcp/25
HTTP    Hyper Text Transfer Protocol tcp/80
POP3    Post Office Protocol Ver 3 tcp/110
IMAP4    Internet Message Access Protocol tcp/143
HTTPS    Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secured tcp/443
RDP    Remote Desktop Protocol tcp/3389
NetBIOS Name    NetBIOS Name Service udp/137
NetBIOS DataGram    NetBIOS DataGram Service udp/138
NetBIOS Session    NetBIOS Session Service udp/139
PCI    133 MB/s to 533 MB/s
PCI-X    for servers, 1.064 MB/s
PCIe    Serial communication in lanes, 250 MB/s to 2 GB/s
SDRAM DIMM    168pins
DDR DIMM SDRAM    184 pins
DDR2 and DDR3 DIMM SDRAM    240 pins
DDR and DDR2 SO-DIMM SDRAM    200 pins
DDR3 SO-DIMM SDRAM    204 pins
DDR Micro-DIMM SDRAM    172 pins
DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM Micro-Dimm    214 pins
Socket T LGA    775 Pins; Release date: 2004; Supported CPU's: Pentium 4, Core 2; RAM: DDR2 and DDR3
Socket B LGA    1366 Pins; Release date: 2008; Supported CPU's: Core I7 (Nehalem); RAM: DDR3 Triple-channel
Socket H/H1 LGA    1156 Pins; Release date: 2009; Supported CPU's: Core I3/5/7 (Nehalem); Ram: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket H2 LGA    1155 Pins; Release date: 2011; Supported CPU's: Sandy/Ivy Bridge; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket H3 LGA    1150 Pins; Release date: 2013; Supported CPU's: Haswell, Broadwell; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket R LGA    2011 Pins; Release date: 2011; Supported CPU's: Sandy-E/EP, Ivy-E/EP, Haswell-E/EP; RAM: : DDR3/DDR4 quad-channel
Socket AM3 LGA    941 Pins; Release date: 2009; Supported CPU's: Athlon II/Phenom II; RAM: DDR2/DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket AM3+ LGA    942 Pins; Release date: 2011; Supported CPU's: Athlon II/Phenom II; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket FM1 LGA    905 Pins; Release date: 2011; Supported CPU's: AMD 10h; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket FM2 LGA    904 Pins; Release date: 2012; Supported CPU's: Piledriver; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
Socket FM2+ LGA    906 Pins; Release date: 2014; Supported CPU's: Steamroller; RAM: DDR3 Dual-channel
virtualization developed by AMD for its CPUs    AMD-V
Intel CPU hardware enhancements improving support for virtualization    VT-x
name of a microprocessor component that performs all comparisons and calculations?    ALU (Arithmetic logic unit)
The AMD CPU brands designed for desktop and workstation computers include:    Athlon;Sempron;Phenom;FX
Intel CPU server brands include:    Xeon; Itanium
server-dedicated CPU series designed by AMD:    Opteron
Maximum USB port count    127 ports
USB 1.1 Speed    Low speed - 1.5 megabits p/s<br>Highspeed - 12 megabits p/s
USB 1.1 Lenghts    low 3 meters, <br>high 5 meters
USB 2.0 Speed    480 megabits p/s
USB 2.0 Length    5 meters
USB 3.0 Speed    5 gigabits p/s
USB 3.0 Length    3 meters
Thunderbolt v1 speeds    10Gbit/s per channel, 20 Gbit/s total throughput
Thunderbolt v2 speeds    20 Gbit/s aggregated channels
Thunderbolt v3 speeds    40 Gbit/s
Thunderbolt Length    Max 3 meters (copper), 60 meters (optical)
Firewire 400A name    Alpha mode IEEE 1394a
Firewire 400 Speed    100, 200, 400 Mbit/s half/duplex
Firewire Length    4.5 meters (15 feet), 72 meters max
Firewire 800b = full name?    Beta mode, IEEE 1394b
Firewire 800b Speed    800 Mbit/s full duplex
Firewire 800b Length    optical connection 100m max
Infrared Speed    4Mbit/s speed
Infrared LOS    1 meter
VGA max Length    10 meters
DVI Length    15 feet
DVI Resolution    1920 x 1200
SATA 1.0 speed    1.5 Gbit/s
SATA 1.0 lenght    1m
SATA 2.0 speed    3.0 Gbit/s
SATA 2.0 lenght    1m
SATA 3.0 speed    6.0 Gbit/s
SATA 3.0 Length    1m
eSata speed    matches revisions
eSata Length    2 meters
CD capacity    700mb
DVD Single    4.7GB
DVD Double    8.5GB
Blu-ray Single    25GB
Blu-ray Double    50GB
BD-RE    Bluray recordable,erasable
Magnetic tape    100GB to multiple TB/Cartridge
How Swappable formats    USB, Firewire, SATA, eSATA
HDD RPM 10,000 latency?    3ms
HDD RPM 7200 latency?    4.16ms
HDD RPM 5400 latency?    5.55ms
IEEE 1394 host controller max devices?    63 devices
Which FireWire pin connectors have the capability of supplying voltage to a device?    6-pin and 9-pin connector
Which of the following interfaces takes advantage of the 19-pin Type A connector?    HDMI
Which of the following answers describes(s) the characteristic features of S/PDIF?    Digital Audio Interface, Coaxial Cablin, Fiber-optic cabling
The 15-pin ATX PSU SATA power connector supplies electrical power at the voltage(s) of:     +3.3 V; +5 V; +12 V
The optional 8-pin PCIe power connector increases the power consumption limit for connected device to:    150W
Hardware for graphic/CAD/CAM design workstation?    High-end GPU; Multi-core CPU; Maximum amount of Ram
Hardware for A/V editing workstation?     Specialized sound card; Dual Monitors; Specialized GPU; High-capacity fast HDD
For best performance, a custom workstation designed for virtualization tasks requires:    Maximum amount of Ram; Multicore CPU
Hardware requirements PC for computer gaming?     Multicore CPU; Sppecialized GPU; High-end cooling; High Definition Sound Card
Hardware for Home theatre PC    Audio; Video; Surround sound; HDMI; TV Tuner
FireWire Alpha powered pins    6 pins
FireWire Alpha unpowered pins    4 pins
FireWire Beta powered pins    9 pins
802.11a    5GHz, 54 Mbit/s, 1 stream, 120 meters
802.11b    2.4 GHz; 11 Mbit/s; 1 Stream; 140 meters
802.11g    2.4 GHz; 54 Mbit/s; 1 Stream; 140 meters
802.11n    5Ghz/2.4Ghz; 150 Mbit/s; 4 Streams; 250 meters
802.11ac    5Ghz; 866.7 Mbit/s; 8 Streams; 250 meters
LCD technologies fastest response time?    Twisted Nematic(TN)
Features of the In-Plane Switching (IPS) LCD panel technology?     High Color Quality; Wide viewing angles; Slow response times
Features of the Twisted Nematic (TN) LCD panel technology?    Low viewing angles; Fast Response times; High Color quality
Which of the following answers describe the function of a power inverter?    supplying voltage to backlights of an LCD panel; AC to DC
LCD without the need for a special light source to produce a visible image?    OLED
Extended Graphics Array (XGA) display standard?    4:3 Aspec Ratio; 1024 x 768
Display devices with aspect ratios of 16:10 and 16:9 are commonly referred to as:    Widescreen Displays
The Super Extended Graphics Array (SXGA) display standard features:    5:4 Aspect ratio; 1280 x 1024 resolution
Ultra Extended Graphics Array (UXGA) display standard?    4:3 Aspect ratio; 1600 x 1200 resolution
Widescreen Ultra Extended Graphics Array (WUXGA) display standard    16:10 Aspect ratio; 1920 x 1200 resolution
Test reachability    ping command
Test reachability to a TCP/IP address    ping <io address>
ping until stopped with Ctrl-c    ping -t <ip address>
Resolve address to a hostname    ping -a <ip address>
Send a # of echo requests    ping -n <count> <ip address>
Send with Don't Fragment flag set    ping -f <ip address>
Windows TCP/IP configuration    ipconfig
Show all TCP/IP details    inconfig /all
Release the DHCP lease    ipconfig /release
Renew the DHCP lease    ipconfig /renew
Flush the DNX resolver cache    ipconfig /flushdns
Route a packet takes to destination(Win)    traceret
Route a packet takes to destination(Linux)    tracerout
Network statistics    netstat
Network statistics Show active connections    netstat -a
Network statistics Show binaries    netstat -b
Network statistics Do not resolve names    netstat -n
Query NetBios over TCP/IP information    nbtstat
List local NetBios names    nbtstat -n
List Remote Net Bios names    nbtstat -A <ip address>
List remote NetBios IP    nbtstat -a <device name>
Windows network commands    NET
Map a network share to a driver letter    NET USE (net use h: \\<servername>\<sharename>
Stop a service    NET STOP (net stop spooler)
Start a service    NET START (net start spooler)
View network recourses    NET VIEW (net view \\<servername>)
Manage active directory database    netdom (netdom resetpwd /s:server /ud:domain\User /pd:*)
Lookup information from DNS servers    nslookup (nslookup 8.8.8.8)

Just import tab separated text file add your tags and you are good to go. If you needs a database with all the tags present pm me and i will get you a shareable link. I Apologize for any grammar mistakes I made, the flashcards were made during the study process.

Cheers!