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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
ROM BIOS program
External SATA: eSATA
Nonvolatile Memory
Asymmetric encryption
2. POST means __________________.
Booting
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Power-On Self-Test
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
3. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
ActiveX
Recovery
Adapter card
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
4. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
80-conductor IDE cable
Low-level formatting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Category 5
5. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Backplane
Block mode
Fault tolerance
6. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Brownout
Whenever changes are made
Boot sequence
RAID 5
7. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Brownout
Automatic
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Backward compatible
8. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Backward compatible
Bridge
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
9. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Attention (AT) command set
SCSI host adapter card
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
10. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Head
Magnetic hard drive
Bus topology
Hard boot
11. 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 topology
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Bus
Last worked
12. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Power-On Self-Test
SCSI ID
Block mode
80-conductor IDE cable
13. 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.
Byte
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Autodetection
Adapter card
14. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Automatic
Post Diagnostic
Recovery
Recovery CDs
15. 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
Cable tie
Bus
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
16. 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
ReadyDrive
Post Diagnostic
File system
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
17. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Cold boot
CHKDSK
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Read/write head
18. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
AppleTalk
Nonvolatile Memory
Autodetection
Formatting
19. 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.
ROM BIOS program
SCSI ID
RAID 5
POST
20. The one bootable partition.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Active partition
Application Programming Interface (API)
Whenever changes are made
21. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
SCSI ID
Head
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Basic disk
22. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
File system
ReadyDrive
23. 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.
Backplane
POST
FAT12
Attention (AT) command set
24. 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.
Fault tolerance
Head
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
AppleTalk
25. 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.
Autodetection
Automatic
C: drive
RAID 5
26. 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.
File system
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Cluster
The primary partition
27. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Terminating resistor
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Adapter card
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
28. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Recovery CDs
Copy backup
Boot sequence
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
29. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Power-On Self-Test
File system
Spanning
Cluster
30. 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
Post Diagnostic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Hybrid hard drives
31. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Backward compatible
Bootable disk
Head
32. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Category 5
CHKDSK
Nonvolatile Memory
Low-level formatting
33. Temporary drop in AC power.
SCSI ID
Hot-swapping
Brownout
Application layer
34. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Magnetic hard drive
Adapter card
Solid State Device: SSD
35. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
POST
Hard boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cable
36. 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
Backplane
Low-level formatting
CHKDSK
SCSI host adapter card
37. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Category 5
Application Programming Interface (API)
Active partition
Terminating resistor
38. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Byte
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
39. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Boot sequence
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Direct Memory Access: DMA
40. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
ReadyDrive
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cable tie
Formatting
41. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Boot record
Hot-swapping
Basic disk
ReadyDrive
42. 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.
Hard boot
ActiveX
Application Programming Interface (API)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
43. 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.
Bus topology
ReadyDrive
Buffer
Soft boot
44. Network with each computer
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Copy backup
Brownout
Bus topology
45. 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.
Automatic
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
POST
46. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
CMOS/BIOS
Fault tolerance
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
SCSI host adapter card
47. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Autodetection
RAID 0
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Soft boot
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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Recovery CDs
Computer maintenance
49. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Attention (AT) command set
Automatic
Whenever changes are made
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
50. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
POST
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI ID