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Subject
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Bootable disk
FAT12
The primary partition
Computer maintenance
2. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Host adapter
Drive image
Block mode
CHKDSK
3. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Autodetection
Formatting
4. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
SCSI host adapter card
Cable tie
Backplane
Byte
5. To power up a computer from the off position.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cable tie
Cold boot
Drive image
6. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Active partition
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Backplane
Bridge
7. 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:
Last worked
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
8. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Cluster
Simple volume
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
9. 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.
Brownout
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Asymmetric encryption
10. POST means __________________.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Power-On Self-Test
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application Programming Interface (API)
11. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Backward compatible
The electrical system
Hot-swapping
80-conductor IDE cable
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.
Byte
Active partition
Boot record
Backplane
13. 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.
Bus
Beep codes
Soft boot
CHKDSK
14. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
SCSI host adapter card
Last worked
Attention (AT) command set
15. The one bootable partition.
Attention (AT) command set
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Read/write head
Active partition
16. Another name for the primary volume.
RAID 1
Simple volume
Magnetic hard drive
Formatting
17. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Adapter card
SCSI host adapter card
Drive image
Beep codes
18. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
80-conductor IDE cable
Application Programming Interface (API)
The electrical system
FAT12
19. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Attention (AT) command set
Recovery CDs
File system
Copy backup
20. 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.
Bus
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Soft boot
Cold boot
21. 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
Boot record
Buffer
The electrical system
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
22. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Booting
Recovery CDs
23. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cable tie
Soft boot
24. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Basic disk
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Boot sequence
Low-level formatting
25. 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
Adapter card
ActiveX
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
26. 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.
Extended partition
Block mode
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Byte
27. 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.
Read/write head
Buffer
Fault tolerance
Drive image
28. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
AppleTalk
The electrical system
SCSI ID
29. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Fault tolerance
Whenever changes are made
80-conductor IDE cable
Hard boot
30. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
File Allocation Table: FAT
External SATA: eSATA
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Block mode
31. 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.
Autodetection
Hot-swapping
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
High-level formatting
32. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
High-level formatting
Brownout
Last worked
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
33. 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.
Byte
Adapter card
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Copy backup
34. Network with each computer
Cable
Bus topology
AppleTalk
Post Diagnostic
35. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Low-level formatting
36. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Basic disk
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Adapter card
The primary partition
37. 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.
Active partition
SCSI host adapter card
Backward compatible
Boot record
38. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Hard boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Soft boot
39. 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.
Buffer
FAT12
Autodetection
Hybrid hard drives
40. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Bus topology
Power-On Self-Test
CHKDSK
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
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.
Simple volume
ActiveX
Block mode
Host adapter
42. 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)
CHKDSK
File system
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
43. Layer 7 of the OSI reference model. This layer provides services to application processes such as electronic mail - file transfer - and terminal emulation that are outside of the OSI model. The application layer identifies and establishes the availab
Bus topology
Application layer
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cold boot
44. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Hot-swapping
Basic disk
Cable
Bridge
45. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Active partition
The primary partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Autodetection
46. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
The primary partition
Magnetic hard drive
Bootable disk
47. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Bus
CHKDSK
Basic disk
48. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Application layer
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Extended partition
Computer Preventive Maintenance
49. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Recovery CDs
Read/write head
CMOS/BIOS
Soft boot
50. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Backward compatible
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Spanning