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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






2. Network with each computer






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






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






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






16. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






17. The one bootable partition.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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 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






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






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






27. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






28. POST means __________________.






29. 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.






30. 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?






31. 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.






32. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






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






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






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






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






37. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.






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






39. 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?






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






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






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






46. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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: