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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Spanning
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
File Allocation Table: FAT
Basic disk
2. The term__________refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything but press the on button.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Formatting
Booting
Read/write head
3. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Boot sequence
Copy backup
Cluster
CMOS/BIOS
4. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Fault tolerance
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Recovery CDs
5. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Boot sequence
Extended partition
Spanning
6. Generally the label for the first hard drive in a computer system. Drive A and Drive B are reserved for floppy drives. Drive B is rarely used on current computers.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
C: drive
Whenever changes are made
Attention (AT) command set
7. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Recovery CDs
Cold boot
AppleTalk
Loop-back plug
8. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
AppleTalk
RAID 0
Power-On Self-Test
Attention (AT) command set
9. 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.
AppleTalk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Post Diagnostic
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
10. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Active partition
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Boot record
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
11. 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.
Extended partition
The primary partition
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
AppleTalk
12. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Nonvolatile Memory
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Formatting
13. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Simple volume
Brownout
80-conductor IDE cable
Bridge
14. A fast interface between a host adapter and the CPU that can daisy chain as many as 7 or 15 devices on a single bus.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Formatting
Recovery
15. Network with each computer
New Technology file system: NTFS
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bus topology
Hard boot
16. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
CMOS/BIOS
Bus topology
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
17. Commonly called the host adapter. The host adapter is inserted into an expansion slot on the motherboard and is responsible for managing all devices on the SCSI bus. A host adapter can support both internal and external SCSI devices - using one conne
RAID 0
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
New Technology file system: NTFS
SCSI host adapter card
18. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
RAID 5
19. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
ROM BIOS program
Last worked
20. An interface standard - part of the IDE/ATA standards - that allows tape drives - CD-ROM drives - and other drives to be treated like an IDE hard drive by the system.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
21. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Byte
The electrical system
22. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Bridge
RAID 1
Cable
23. Uses space from two or more physical disks to increase the disk space available for a single volume. THIS writes to the physical disks evenly across all disks so that no one disk receives all the activity - and therefore improves performance. Windows
Bootable disk
RAID 0
Terminating resistor
Autodetection
24. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Terminating resistor
Application Programming Interface (API)
25. 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
RAID 5
Recovery CDs
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Access Control List (ACL)
26. The one bootable partition.
Bootable disk
Active partition
Application layer
Backplane
27. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Whenever changes are made
Cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Host adapter
28. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
High-level formatting
Basic disk
Buffer
Direct Memory Access: DMA
29. The ________________makes sure the computer meets the necessary system requirements and that all hardware is working properly before starting the remainder of the boot process.
RAID 5
Soft boot
Brownout
POST
30. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Hybrid hard drives
Post Diagnostic
RAID 1
Loop-back plug
31. Discovers the local address (MAC address) of a station on the network when the IP address is known. End stations as well as routers use ARP to discover local addresses:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
ReadyDrive
32. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Extended partition
AppleTalk
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Last worked
33. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
High-level formatting
Hybrid hard drives
Loop-back plug
34. Hardware or software systems that can use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the system or with other systems. Also known as backward-compatible or backwards compatible.
SCSI ID
Recovery
CMOS/BIOS
Backward compatible
35. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Cable
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Computer maintenance
Bridge
36. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Bit rate
Buffer
Automatic
37. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Read/write head
Application layer
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
38. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Computer maintenance
Spanning
Bus
39. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Cluster
ReadyDrive
Bootable disk
ROM BIOS program
40. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Extended partition
The electrical system
Application Programming Interface (API)
High-level formatting
41. The circuit board that controls a SCSI bus supporting as many as seven or fifteen separate devices. This device controls communication between the SCSI bus and the PC.
AppleTalk
Host adapter
Post Diagnostic
Boot sequence
42. 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.
Brownout
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Access Control List (ACL)
High-level formatting
43. 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.
Last worked
Autodetection
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Byte
44. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
ActiveX
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
45. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Boot sequence
Loop-back plug
Solid State Device: SSD
Recovery CDs
46. Most often called a hard drive - comes in two sizes for personal computers: the 2.5" size is used for laptop computers and the 3.5" size is used for desktops. In addition - a smaller 1.8" size (about the size of a credit card) hard drive is used in s
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
FAT12
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Boot sequence
47. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Hot-swapping
Copy backup
Access Control List (ACL)
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
48. 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?
Boot sequence
C: drive
80-conductor IDE cable
Last worked
49. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
FAT12
Recovery CDs
Hybrid hard drives
50. Temporary drop in AC power.
Bus topology
Brownout
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Host adapter