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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Bridge
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Fault tolerance
2. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Recovery CDs
Read/write head
Hot-swapping
Power-On Self-Test
3. Five possible questions that should be asked of a user who is experiencing computer problems: What had just happened? What recent changes did the user make? When did the computer __________? What error message do you see?
The electrical system
The primary partition
Last worked
Logical Unit Number: LUN
4. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
Autodetection
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
5. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Host adapter
Basic disk
CMOS/BIOS
6. A process (usually performed at the factory) that electronically creates the hard drive tracks and sectors and tests for bad spots on the disk surface.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Low-level formatting
SCSI ID
Host adapter
7. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Drive image
Cold boot
Head
8. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
New Technology file system: NTFS
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Hard boot
9. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Nonvolatile Memory
Whenever changes are made
Backward compatible
Bus topology
10. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Asymmetric encryption
Recovery
FAT12
11. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
SCSI host adapter card
Logical Unit Number: LUN
RAID 5
12. Temporary drop in AC power.
FAT12
Cache
Brownout
SCSI ID
13. A standard for managing the interface between secondary storage devices and a computer system. A system can support up to six serial ATA and parallel ATA IDE devices or up to four parallel ATA IDE devices such as hard drives - CD-ROM drives - and DVD
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
AppleTalk
RAID 0
14. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Booting
Spanning
Access Control List (ACL)
Bootable disk
15. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
ActiveX
ROM BIOS program
Solid State Device: SSD
File Allocation Table: FAT
16. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Attention (AT) command set
Terminating resistor
Asymmetric encryption
New Technology file system: NTFS
17. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Copy backup
Bootable disk
18. This can be divided into one or more logical drives. Each logical drive is assigned a drive letter (such as drive G:) and is formatted using its own file system.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Extended partition
Loop-back plug
Bus topology
19. A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe - such as a hardware failure or power outage - so that data is not lost.
RAID 0
New Technology file system: NTFS
Fault tolerance
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
20. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Application Programming Interface (API)
Byte
ActiveX
21. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
SCSI ID
Cluster
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
22. To power up a computer from the off position.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Byte
Recovery CDs
Cold boot
23. The overall structure an OS uses to name - store - and organize files on a drive. In it - a cluster is the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors. A it tracks how these clusters are used for each fil
The electrical system
File system
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
24. Operating system feature that enables a computer to assign itself an address if it is unable to contact a DHCP server. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved private IP addresses in the range of 169.254.0.0 -169.254.255.255 for A
Bootable disk
Brownout
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
File Allocation Table: FAT
25. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Loop-back plug
Backplane
Booting
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
26. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Cable tie
FAT12
27. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Active partition
Loop-back plug
28. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
ReadyDrive
Category 5
Cable
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
29. Protocol suite to network Macintosh computers. It is comprised of a comprehensive set of protocols that span the seven layers of the OSI reference model.
Bus
AppleTalk
80-conductor IDE cable
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
30. Applet or small program created by Microsoft to control interactivity on web pages that has to be downloaded to gain access to the full functionality.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
C: drive
ActiveX
80-conductor IDE cable
31. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Hard boot
Recovery CDs
SCSI ID
Simple volume
32. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Brownout
External SATA: eSATA
Recovery CDs
80-conductor IDE cable
33. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Cache
Computer Preventive Maintenance
New Technology file system: NTFS
Asymmetric encryption
34. A unit of measure that describes the size of a data file - the amount of space on a disk or other storage medium - or the amount of data being sent over a network. One byte consists of 8 bits of data.
Automatic
Byte
SCSI host adapter card
RAID 0
35. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
File system
RAID 1
AppleTalk
Terminating resistor
36. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Head
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Power-On Self-Test
37. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Loop-back plug
Fault tolerance
AppleTalk
Automatic
38. Four Main Parts of the boot process: 1. BIOS checks hardware through POST. 2. The ___________ searches for and loads an OS. 3. The OS configures the system and completes its own loading. 4. The user executes application software.
Basic disk
CHKDSK
Boot record
ROM BIOS program
39. Stripes data across three or more drives and uses parity checking - so that if one drive fails - the other drives can re-create the data stored on the failed drive. Data is not duplicated - and - therefore - THIS makes better use of volume capacity.
Soft boot
Read/write head
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
RAID 5
40. Formatting performed by means of the DOS or Windows Format program (for example - FORMAT C:/S creates the boot record - FAT - and root directory on drive C and makes the drive bootable). Also called OS formatting.
Beep codes
Formatting
High-level formatting
Bus topology
41. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Power-On Self-Test
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
The electrical system
Cable tie
42. Performed from the operating system - such as by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Del or by choosing a Restart option from the Shut Down dialog box. Less stressful on the computer.
Recovery
CMOS/BIOS
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Soft boot
43. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Hybrid hard drives
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Application layer
High-level formatting
44. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Cold boot
Brownout
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
45. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Solid State Device: SSD
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Application layer
External SATA: eSATA
46. POST means __________________.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Power-On Self-Test
Booting
Terminating resistor
47. A hard drive whose disk controller is integrated into the drive - eliminating the need for a controller cable and thus increasing speed - as well as reducing price.
High-level formatting
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Bridge
48. A number assigned to a logical device (such as a tray in a CD changer) that is part of a physical SCSI device - which is assigned a SCSI ID.
Computer maintenance
Buffer
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Active partition
49. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
External SATA: eSATA
Head
Cable
Copy backup
50. The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition; it contains information about the disk or logical drive. On a hard drive - if the THING is in the active partition - then it is used to boot the OS. Also called boot sector.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Hybrid hard drives
Basic disk
Boot record