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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Generally the label for the first hard drive in a computer system. Drive A and Drive B are reserved for floppy drives. Drive B is rarely used on current computers.
Fault tolerance
Beep codes
C: drive
Nonvolatile Memory
2. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Automatic
Power-On Self-Test
Solid State Device: SSD
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
3. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Terminating resistor
Fault tolerance
File system
Attention (AT) command set
4. 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.
Fault tolerance
Loop-back plug
Formatting
FAT12
5. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Whenever changes are made
Beep codes
Attention (AT) command set
Bootable disk
6. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cable
The electrical system
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
7. The one bootable partition.
ActiveX
Magnetic hard drive
Active partition
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
8. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Hard boot
Attention (AT) command set
Post Diagnostic
9. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Attention (AT) command set
Hybrid hard drives
The primary partition
10. 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.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Head
Bus
Low-level formatting
11. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bridge
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Bus topology
12. 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)
Application layer
File Allocation Table: FAT
SCSI ID
13. 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.
The primary partition
ActiveX
File Allocation Table: FAT
Direct Memory Access: DMA
14. 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.
Bus
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
ROM BIOS program
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
15. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Loop-back plug
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
16. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
RAID 0
C: drive
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
17. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Boot record
Terminating resistor
Copy backup
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
18. To power up a computer from the off position.
Read/write head
Cold boot
Post Diagnostic
AppleTalk
19. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Host adapter
Buffer
Cache
Autodetection
20. 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.
Head
Post Diagnostic
Fault tolerance
Beep codes
21. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
RAID 0
Access Control List (ACL)
SCSI ID
C: drive
22. 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
Drive image
Brownout
Bridge
23. Temporary drop in AC power.
External SATA: eSATA
File system
Brownout
AppleTalk
24. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Recovery CDs
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Beep codes
25. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Buffer
80-conductor IDE cable
Backplane
Drive image
26. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Access Control List (ACL)
Loop-back plug
Buffer
Solid State Device: SSD
27. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Spanning
ROM BIOS program
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
28. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
SCSI ID
Extended partition
29. 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
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Magnetic hard drive
Bridge
CMOS/BIOS
30. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
High-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
Byte
80-conductor IDE cable
31. 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
RAID 0
Booting
Bus topology
Spanning
32. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Basic disk
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Bridge
33. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Backward compatible
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Recovery
Beep codes
34. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Post Diagnostic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Automatic
Brownout
35. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Hot-swapping
Autodetection
Nonvolatile Memory
36. 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.
Cable tie
Boot sequence
Byte
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
37. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
Recovery CDs
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
High-level formatting
38. 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:
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Copy backup
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
SCSI ID
39. 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.
Active partition
Copy backup
Asymmetric encryption
Simple volume
40. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
The primary partition
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
41. 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.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Active partition
Soft boot
Recovery CDs
42. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
AppleTalk
Autodetection
Head
Bus
43. 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
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Cable tie
File Allocation Table: FAT
44. 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
Recovery
Backward compatible
Bus
45. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
File system
Asymmetric encryption
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
46. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cable tie
47. POST means __________________.
Backward compatible
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
80-conductor IDE cable
Power-On Self-Test
48. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Bus topology
Simple volume
49. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Spanning
Nonvolatile Memory
Read/write head
50. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)