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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
ReadyDrive
ROM BIOS program
POST
External SATA: eSATA
2. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Nonvolatile Memory
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
3. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Attention (AT) command set
Host adapter
Extended partition
Read/write head
4. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
The primary partition
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Application Programming Interface (API)
Post Diagnostic
5. Network with each computer
Loop-back plug
SCSI host adapter card
Head
Bus topology
6. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Simple volume
Hybrid hard drives
Bootable disk
SCSI host adapter card
7. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
RAID 0
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Whenever changes are made
New Technology file system: NTFS
8. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
80-conductor IDE cable
Low-level formatting
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cable
9. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Block mode
Host adapter
Backplane
Cache
10. 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.
The primary partition
File system
Cable tie
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
11. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Bootable disk
The primary partition
CHKDSK
Beep codes
12. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
RAID 0
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
File Allocation Table: FAT
13. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Block mode
Copy backup
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
14. 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.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Last worked
Cluster
SCSI ID
15. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Extended partition
Power-On Self-Test
CHKDSK
16. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Solid State Device: SSD
SCSI ID
Active partition
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
17. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
ROM BIOS program
Drive image
Brownout
18. 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.
RAID 5
Application layer
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Spanning
19. 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?
The electrical system
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Nonvolatile Memory
Low-level formatting
20. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Simple volume
Recovery CDs
21. 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
External SATA: eSATA
SCSI host adapter card
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Category 5
22. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Cold boot
Head
Brownout
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
23. 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
Bit rate
80-conductor IDE cable
24. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cold boot
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Backward compatible
25. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Low-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
Booting
26. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Block mode
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Boot record
27. 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:
Extended partition
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bit rate
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
28. POST means __________________.
High-level formatting
ROM BIOS program
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Power-On Self-Test
29. 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
Formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Backward compatible
30. 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.
Category 5
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Bus
31. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Active partition
File Allocation Table: FAT
Boot sequence
32. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Post Diagnostic
Hot-swapping
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cable
33. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
ReadyDrive
34. 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.
Loop-back plug
Brownout
Bridge
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
35. 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.
Beep codes
Host adapter
Boot sequence
Backward compatible
36. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
SCSI ID
AppleTalk
Bit rate
RAID 1
37. 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.
Backward compatible
Byte
Cluster
Bootable disk
38. 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.
Drive image
SCSI host adapter card
High-level formatting
Loop-back plug
39. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Direct Memory Access: DMA
POST
40. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Read/write head
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
The primary partition
Bit rate
41. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cable tie
42. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Solid State Device: SSD
Spanning
Simple volume
Autodetection
43. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
80-conductor IDE cable
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cache
ReadyDrive
44. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
SCSI ID
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Post Diagnostic
Formatting
45. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Soft boot
POST
RAID 1
CMOS/BIOS
46. 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
Application layer
Cold boot
External SATA: eSATA
Asymmetric encryption
47. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Application layer
Category 5
48. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Backward compatible
ReadyDrive
RAID 5
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
49. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Active partition
Backward compatible
50. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Category 5
ReadyDrive
Programmed Input/Output: PIO