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Subject
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Recovery
RAID 1
Backward compatible
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
2. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Nonvolatile Memory
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Host adapter
3. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Byte
4. 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
Copy backup
Buffer
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
5. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Booting
Backplane
Hybrid hard drives
Bit rate
6. 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.
CMOS/BIOS
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bus topology
Asymmetric encryption
7. Five possible questions that should be asked of a user who is experiencing computer problems: What had just happened? What recent changes did the user make? When did the computer __________? What error message do you see?
Last worked
Automatic
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Soft boot
8. 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.
AppleTalk
Bridge
Cluster
Boot sequence
9. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Buffer
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Byte
10. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Soft boot
Backplane
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
11. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Whenever changes are made
CHKDSK
Bootable disk
Computer maintenance
12. 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.
CMOS/BIOS
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
SCSI host adapter card
13. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Bridge
CHKDSK
New Technology file system: NTFS
14. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Block mode
External SATA: eSATA
Booting
15. 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
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Hard boot
16. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
Automatic
CMOS/BIOS
17. 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
Formatting
Application layer
Boot record
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
18. 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.
Terminating resistor
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Bus topology
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
19. 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.
Autodetection
Terminating resistor
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Recovery CDs
20. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
SCSI ID
21. 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 electrical system
Access Control List (ACL)
POST
Read/write head
22. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Block mode
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Bus
SCSI ID
23. 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
External SATA: eSATA
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
SCSI host adapter card
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
24. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Category 5
Formatting
Loop-back plug
Bootable disk
25. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
RAID 0
Application Programming Interface (API)
ActiveX
Computer maintenance
26. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
ActiveX
File Allocation Table: FAT
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Direct Memory Access: DMA
27. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Attention (AT) command set
Computer maintenance
Cable tie
Boot record
28. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Solid State Device: SSD
File Allocation Table: FAT
Read/write head
Category 5
29. Network with each computer
Bus topology
Host adapter
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Category 5
30. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Brownout
Read/write head
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Fault tolerance
31. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Hot-swapping
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hybrid hard drives
Attention (AT) command set
32. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Solid State Device: SSD
Spanning
Post Diagnostic
33. 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.
Hot-swapping
Extended partition
Hybrid hard drives
ActiveX
34. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
ROM BIOS program
The primary partition
File system
35. Temporary drop in AC power.
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 0
Brownout
Byte
36. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Basic disk
Spanning
Host adapter
37. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Whenever changes are made
Loop-back plug
38. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Post Diagnostic
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Access Control List (ACL)
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.
Read/write head
ROM BIOS program
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
40. 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
Computer Preventive Maintenance
External SATA: eSATA
High-level formatting
41. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Computer maintenance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
POST
Basic disk
42. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
AppleTalk
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Extended partition
RAID 1
43. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Soft boot
Read/write head
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Boot sequence
44. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
C: drive
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Cache
45. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Application Programming Interface (API)
Basic disk
Soft boot
46. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Last worked
Beep codes
The electrical system
Boot sequence
47. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Active partition
Head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
48. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Computer maintenance
Fault tolerance
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
49. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Drive image
CMOS/BIOS
New Technology file system: NTFS
RAID 5
50. 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.
Read/write head
Spanning
Post Diagnostic
FAT12