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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






2. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.






6. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.






7. 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






8. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






9. 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.






10. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?






11. 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?






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.






13. 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.






14. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.






32. 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?






33. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.






34. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






35. This tool can be used to test a USB port.






36. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.






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






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






44. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






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






46. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. The overall structure an OS uses to name - store - and organize files on a drive. In it - a cluster is the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors. A it tracks how these clusters are used for each fil