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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Block mode
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
File Allocation Table: FAT
2. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Recovery
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
3. Also known as redundant array of independent disks: Technology uses an array of hard drives used to provide fault tolerance and/or improvement in performance.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Solid State Device: SSD
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
4. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Basic disk
Hybrid hard drives
Cluster
5. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Basic disk
Byte
80-conductor IDE cable
Solid State Device: SSD
6. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
FAT12
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cache
Backplane
7. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Hot-swapping
Attention (AT) command set
Block mode
Automatic
8. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Formatting
ROM BIOS program
Spanning
Autodetection
9. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Power-On Self-Test
Recovery CDs
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
External SATA: eSATA
10. 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.
Copy backup
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
RAID 5
Last worked
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?
Automatic
Bit rate
The electrical system
Hot-swapping
12. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
FAT12
Byte
SCSI ID
Computer maintenance
13. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Asymmetric encryption
POST
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
14. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Host adapter
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
15. Commonly called the host adapter. The host adapter is inserted into an expansion slot on the motherboard and is responsible for managing all devices on the SCSI bus. A host adapter can support both internal and external SCSI devices - using one conne
SCSI host adapter card
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
16. 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.
Hot-swapping
Host adapter
Computer maintenance
Drive image
17. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Buffer
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cold boot
Cable
18. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
CMOS/BIOS
Category 5
Post Diagnostic
19. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
RAID 1
Hot-swapping
Cluster
Head
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.
Soft boot
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Spanning
Boot record
21. 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
Cable tie
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Bootable disk
22. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Hard boot
Application layer
Solid State Device: SSD
Extended partition
23. 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
Spanning
Drive image
Bus
Magnetic hard drive
24. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
RAID 5
Hot-swapping
25. 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.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Access Control List (ACL)
Solid State Device: SSD
Low-level formatting
26. The ________________makes sure the computer meets the necessary system requirements and that all hardware is working properly before starting the remainder of the boot process.
External SATA: eSATA
Active partition
POST
Cable tie
27. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Hybrid hard drives
C: drive
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
28. Network with each computer
CMOS/BIOS
Computer maintenance
Magnetic hard drive
Bus topology
29. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Post Diagnostic
Terminating resistor
POST
Loop-back plug
30. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Copy backup
CHKDSK
Bus topology
Bit rate
31. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Magnetic hard drive
Spanning
Fault tolerance
Head
32. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Cable
Buffer
ReadyDrive
Recovery
33. 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.
Basic disk
POST
Boot record
Nonvolatile Memory
34. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Hot-swapping
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
35. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Bootable disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Application layer
Recovery
36. 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
Drive image
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
CMOS/BIOS
Basic disk
37. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
File system
High-level formatting
Cluster
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:
Simple volume
Nonvolatile Memory
CHKDSK
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
39. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
ROM BIOS program
ActiveX
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
40. 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.
Simple volume
Application Programming Interface (API)
Boot sequence
FAT12
41. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
CMOS/BIOS
AppleTalk
ActiveX
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
42. 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.
Backward compatible
ActiveX
Soft boot
High-level formatting
43. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
C: drive
New Technology file system: NTFS
Recovery CDs
ActiveX
44. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
ReadyDrive
Adapter card
Boot record
45. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Category 5
Formatting
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Bit rate
46. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Cluster
File system
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hard boot
47. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Hybrid hard drives
Access Control List (ACL)
Drive image
48. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hard boot
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Boot sequence
49. 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
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Attention (AT) command set
File system
Solid State Device: SSD
50. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Simple volume
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cache
Low-level formatting