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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






2. Temporary drop in AC power.






3. POST means __________________.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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?






9. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)






10. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






11. 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






12. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






13. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






14. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.






15. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.






16. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. Network with each computer






20. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






21. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.






22. 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.






23. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






24. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






25. 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.






26. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.






30. 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.






31. Another name for the primary volume.






32. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






33. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.






34. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






35. The one bootable partition.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).






39. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






40. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.






41. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






42. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






43. 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.






44. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






45. 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.






46. 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.






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.






48. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






49. 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.






50. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.