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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Low-level formatting
Solid State Device: SSD
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
2. 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?
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Buffer
Last worked
Cluster
3. 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
Loop-back plug
Backplane
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
SCSI host adapter card
4. 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.
Backward compatible
Boot sequence
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
The primary partition
5. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Beep codes
ReadyDrive
Backplane
Bit rate
6. 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
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Attention (AT) command set
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
7. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Boot record
Block mode
8. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Last worked
Hybrid hard drives
Beep codes
AppleTalk
9. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
New Technology file system: NTFS
Computer Preventive Maintenance
10. 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.
High-level formatting
Bridge
Buffer
Simple volume
11. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Soft boot
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bus
Whenever changes are made
12. 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.
Recovery CDs
Boot record
Automatic
Autodetection
13. 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.
Cache
Beep codes
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
POST
14. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Magnetic hard drive
Basic disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
Spanning
15. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
New Technology file system: NTFS
Whenever changes are made
16. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Whenever changes are made
Drive image
Boot sequence
Application layer
17. 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
RAID 0
Application layer
FAT12
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
Cable
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Computer maintenance
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
19. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Hybrid hard drives
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
AppleTalk
20. 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.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Recovery CDs
Byte
Host adapter
21. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Last worked
Adapter card
Brownout
22. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Automatic
Hard boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cache
23. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
RAID 5
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
24. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
Solid State Device: SSD
CHKDSK
AppleTalk
25. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
Buffer
Nonvolatile Memory
Access Control List (ACL)
26. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Post Diagnostic
Read/write head
27. 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.
FAT12
Simple volume
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
28. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Boot sequence
Cold boot
Basic disk
RAID 5
29. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Boot sequence
Spanning
Bridge
30. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
CHKDSK
Backward compatible
Access Control List (ACL)
31. 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.
Bus
Copy backup
Booting
ROM BIOS program
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.
Cluster
Hard boot
80-conductor IDE cable
Basic disk
33. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Last worked
Byte
Computer Preventive Maintenance
34. 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
Read/write head
Application Programming Interface (API)
Buffer
File Allocation Table: FAT
35. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Cable tie
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Cluster
36. The one bootable partition.
RAID 1
Active partition
Application Programming Interface (API)
FAT12
37. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Recovery
New Technology file system: NTFS
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
38. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Asymmetric encryption
Application layer
Cable tie
39. 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.
Recovery
Fault tolerance
Cable
Logical Unit Number: LUN
40. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Booting
Head
ActiveX
Bootable disk
41. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Loop-back plug
File Allocation Table: FAT
SCSI ID
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
42. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Hybrid hard drives
Cable tie
Solid State Device: SSD
External SATA: eSATA
43. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Hot-swapping
80-conductor IDE cable
Whenever changes are made
44. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Host adapter
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Byte
45. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Last worked
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
46. 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
Spanning
80-conductor IDE cable
Recovery CDs
47. 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
Cold boot
Cluster
POST
RAID 0
48. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Access Control List (ACL)
Drive image
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Boot record
49. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Post Diagnostic
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Application Programming Interface (API)
50. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Whenever changes are made
Byte
Bit rate
Hot-swapping