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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. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
ROM BIOS program
The primary partition
2. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
SCSI ID
Hybrid hard drives
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Copy backup
3. Media through which data is transferred from one part of a computer to another. The bus can be compared to a highway on which data travels within a computer.
Basic disk
Bus
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
The electrical system
4. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
High-level formatting
Category 5
5. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Block mode
Bootable disk
80-conductor IDE cable
Terminating resistor
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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bit rate
Low-level formatting
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
7. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Solid State Device: SSD
Backward compatible
SCSI ID
8. The latest SCSI standard - serial SCSI - also called serial attached SCSI - allows for more than 15 devices on a single SCSI chain - uses smaller - longer - round cables - and uses smaller hard drive form factors that can support larger capacities th
Terminating resistor
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Application layer
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
9. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
CMOS/BIOS
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Bit rate
Soft boot
10. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
C: drive
SCSI ID
Category 5
Beep codes
11. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Extended partition
RAID 0
Backward compatible
12. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Beep codes
Cable
Recovery CDs
13. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Formatting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Terminating resistor
14. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Bridge
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Hard boot
15. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
AppleTalk
Bus
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Attention (AT) command set
16. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Bus
Host adapter
RAID 1
17. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Drive image
Spanning
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Copy backup
18. 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
80-conductor IDE cable
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 1
CMOS/BIOS
19. 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
Power-On Self-Test
SCSI host adapter card
Bootable disk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
20. 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)
Cable
Booting
The primary partition
21. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Nonvolatile Memory
Loop-back plug
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
22. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
RAID 1
80-conductor IDE cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
File Allocation Table: FAT
23. 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.
Spanning
Boot record
Block mode
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
24. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
FAT12
Autodetection
File system
25. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Post Diagnostic
Loop-back plug
Bus
Autodetection
26. The 12-bit wide - one-column file allocation table for a floppy disk - containing information about how each cluster or file allocation unit on the disk is currently used.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
AppleTalk
Buffer
FAT12
27. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
High-level formatting
Fault tolerance
Backplane
POST
28. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
AppleTalk
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Recovery CDs
POST
29. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Loop-back plug
Bus
30. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Autodetection
Attention (AT) command set
The primary partition
Terminating resistor
31. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
C: drive
Access Control List (ACL)
Application Programming Interface (API)
Computer maintenance
32. One or more sectors that constitute the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing data (also referred to as a file allocation unit). Files are written to a disk as groups of whole clusters.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
File system
Cluster
RAID 1
33. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
Boot sequence
The electrical system
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
34. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
High-level formatting
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Adapter card
Extended partition
35. 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.
Host adapter
Loop-back plug
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
36. Also known as redundant array of independent disks: Technology uses an array of hard drives used to provide fault tolerance and/or improvement in performance.
SCSI host adapter card
C: drive
Brownout
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
37. A drive with one - two - or more platters - or disks that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard. The top and bot
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 1
Drive image
Nonvolatile Memory
38. Storage area used for handling data in transit. Buffers are used in internetworking to compensate for differences in processing speed between network devices. Bursts of data can be stored in buffers until they can be handled by slower processing devi
Buffer
Spanning
Recovery
RAID 5
39. The volume is assigned a drive letter (such as drive C: or drive D:) and is formatted using a file system. Also called simple volume.
File system
Active partition
The primary partition
Logical Unit Number: LUN
40. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Nonvolatile Memory
Cable
Access Control List (ACL)
Autodetection
41. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Category 5
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Post Diagnostic
Bus
42. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
AppleTalk
Basic disk
External SATA: eSATA
43. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
External SATA: eSATA
CMOS/BIOS
ReadyDrive
Spanning
44. Network with each computer
Bus topology
Bridge
FAT12
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
45. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cluster
Cable tie
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
46. 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.
CMOS/BIOS
Whenever changes are made
Extended partition
The primary partition
47. 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.
Backward compatible
Soft boot
Application layer
The primary partition
48. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Read/write head
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Bus topology
49. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Head
ROM BIOS program
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
50. Method for encrypting data on a network. Uses a private key for writing messages and a public key to decode the messages. Only the private key needs to be kept secret. Public keys can be distributed openly.
Asymmetric encryption
CMOS/BIOS
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Logical Unit Number: LUN