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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. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
CHKDSK
Attention (AT) command set
Head
Magnetic hard drive
2. Another name for the primary volume.
Copy backup
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Simple volume
Bootable disk
3. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Automatic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Solid State Device: SSD
CMOS/BIOS
4. 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.
Soft boot
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Recovery
Spanning
5. When troubleshooting a failed boot - if you do not see any lights or hear any noises - what hardware system do you first assume is at fault?
The electrical system
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
6. 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
The primary partition
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
High-level formatting
Buffer
7. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Backward compatible
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Boot sequence
Active partition
8. 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
ActiveX
Attention (AT) command set
80-conductor IDE cable
SCSI host adapter card
9. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Direct Memory Access: DMA
CHKDSK
Hot-swapping
10. 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.
RAID 5
Post Diagnostic
Backplane
Attention (AT) command set
11. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
POST
Bridge
Whenever changes are made
High-level formatting
12. 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.
Cable
Last worked
AppleTalk
Basic disk
13. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
RAID 0
Buffer
Automatic
Adapter card
14. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Application Programming Interface (API)
Booting
Byte
15. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
AppleTalk
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hybrid hard drives
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
16. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
The primary partition
Nonvolatile Memory
Post Diagnostic
17. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cache
Boot record
Byte
18. 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?
Last worked
Byte
Computer Preventive Maintenance
New Technology file system: NTFS
19. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Soft boot
Bus
Cluster
20. 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
Adapter card
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
File Allocation Table: FAT
Recovery
21. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Backplane
The electrical system
Magnetic hard drive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
22. 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.
Low-level formatting
Power-On Self-Test
Drive image
Solid State Device: SSD
23. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Copy backup
Low-level formatting
The electrical system
24. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Autodetection
POST
Hybrid hard drives
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
25. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Category 5
Byte
Application Programming Interface (API)
Cache
26. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Cluster
Bus
27. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
ActiveX
Whenever changes are made
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
28. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Automatic
Application Programming Interface (API)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
29. 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.
RAID 5
Host adapter
Hard boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
30. Network with each computer
Bus topology
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Host adapter
Adapter card
31. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
File system
Cold boot
New Technology file system: NTFS
32. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
New Technology file system: NTFS
Magnetic hard drive
Hot-swapping
33. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
High-level formatting
Buffer
34. 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.
Application layer
Low-level formatting
Extended partition
Boot sequence
35. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Head
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
36. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Simple volume
RAID 1
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Spanning
37. 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.
Booting
Bus topology
C: drive
Nonvolatile Memory
38. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Buffer
Head
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
39. Temporary drop in AC power.
Attention (AT) command set
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Brownout
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Cache
Head
Loop-back plug
Booting
41. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bootable disk
Bit rate
SCSI ID
42. 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
Terminating resistor
Magnetic hard drive
Hot-swapping
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
43. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
High-level formatting
Boot record
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
44. POST means __________________.
Cable
Power-On Self-Test
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Automatic
45. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Adapter card
Hybrid hard drives
Autodetection
46. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Recovery CDs
Loop-back plug
Bus
Soft boot
47. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Backplane
FAT12
Copy backup
48. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
ReadyDrive
RAID 1
49. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Spanning
Logical Unit Number: LUN
RAID 1
50. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
New Technology file system: NTFS
High-level formatting
Cache