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1. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
ROM BIOS program
Low-level formatting
Terminating resistor
New Technology file system: NTFS
2. POST means __________________.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Terminating resistor
Power-On Self-Test
Backplane
3. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Magnetic hard drive
Access Control List (ACL)
Spanning
4. 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:
Head
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
High-level formatting
Computer Preventive Maintenance
5. 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.
Whenever changes are made
Autodetection
Hard boot
Logical Unit Number: LUN
6. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
CMOS/BIOS
Hybrid hard drives
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Bus
7. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Boot sequence
Brownout
Bridge
8. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
POST
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Fault tolerance
9. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Loop-back plug
80-conductor IDE cable
POST
Recovery
10. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
11. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
The electrical system
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
External SATA: eSATA
12. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Bridge
RAID 0
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
File Allocation Table: FAT
13. Protocol suite to network Macintosh computers. It is comprised of a comprehensive set of protocols that span the seven layers of the OSI reference model.
AppleTalk
Adapter card
RAID 0
Drive image
14. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Boot sequence
Booting
Block mode
15. 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.
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Backward compatible
16. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
RAID 1
Soft boot
Computer Preventive Maintenance
17. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
80-conductor IDE cable
CHKDSK
Read/write head
Whenever changes are made
18. 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.
Brownout
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bus
19. 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.
The primary partition
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
POST
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
20. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Booting
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Basic disk
Direct Memory Access: DMA
21. 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?
Beep codes
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
The electrical system
Boot record
22. 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
Bit rate
Cable
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Computer maintenance
23. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Boot record
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Solid State Device: SSD
24. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Host adapter
Extended partition
Loop-back plug
Cache
25. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Adapter card
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Bootable disk
Basic disk
26. 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.
ActiveX
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Boot record
Cache
27. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Byte
File Allocation Table: FAT
28. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Last worked
Backplane
80-conductor IDE cable
29. 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.
Bus topology
Power-On Self-Test
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Nonvolatile Memory
30. The term__________refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything but press the on button.
Buffer
Booting
Formatting
ActiveX
31. 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.
Host adapter
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
ROM BIOS program
32. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Boot sequence
Post Diagnostic
Application layer
33. 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
Bootable disk
File system
RAID 0
Head
34. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Hybrid hard drives
Computer maintenance
SCSI ID
Nonvolatile Memory
35. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
File system
Cable
Bootable disk
36. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Recovery
37. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Bit rate
Backplane
Bus topology
Host adapter
38. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Hybrid hard drives
Fault tolerance
The electrical system
39. 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
Backplane
New Technology file system: NTFS
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
40. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
ROM BIOS program
C: drive
Bit rate
41. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Spanning
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
External SATA: eSATA
42. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
CMOS/BIOS
ROM BIOS program
Beep codes
Bus
43. 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
Magnetic hard drive
ActiveX
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Hybrid hard drives
44. 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
Boot record
Buffer
CHKDSK
Autodetection
45. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Cache
Bit rate
File system
Terminating resistor
46. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Nonvolatile Memory
Read/write head
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
47. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Bit rate
C: drive
Attention (AT) command set
48. 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.
Bootable disk
Adapter card
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Whenever changes are made
49. Temporary drop in AC power.
Byte
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Brownout
Active partition
50. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Cable
Head
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Fault tolerance
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