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Computer Repair

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1. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






2. 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:






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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.






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






11. 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.






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






13. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.






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






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






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






17. To power up a computer from the off position.






18. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.






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






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






21. 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.






22. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






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






24. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






25. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.






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






38. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






39. Another name for the primary volume.






40. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






41. 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






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






43. The one bootable partition.






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






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






46. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.







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