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Computer Repair
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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.
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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. 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 boot
Boot record
New Technology file system: NTFS
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
2. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Category 5
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
ActiveX
3. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Hot-swapping
Hard boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Category 5
4. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Simple volume
Cache
Boot sequence
Host adapter
5. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
CHKDSK
Spanning
Solid State Device: SSD
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
6. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Attention (AT) command set
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cache
7. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
SCSI host adapter card
Recovery
Hot-swapping
Spanning
8. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Loop-back plug
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Power-On Self-Test
Cache
9. 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
Boot sequence
File system
Hot-swapping
Asymmetric encryption
10. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Autodetection
Low-level formatting
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
11. 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:
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Beep codes
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
12. 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?
Application Programming Interface (API)
Beep codes
The electrical system
Hard boot
13. 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.
FAT12
Recovery CDs
C: drive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
14. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
15. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Recovery
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Soft boot
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
16. 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.
Bootable disk
Asymmetric encryption
SCSI ID
Category 5
17. 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
Read/write head
Cluster
RAID 0
Recovery CDs
18. 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
Basic disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
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.
POST
Basic disk
Hot-swapping
Power-On Self-Test
20. 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
Brownout
Beep codes
Access Control List (ACL)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
21. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Low-level formatting
Magnetic hard drive
Computer maintenance
22. 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.
The electrical system
Nonvolatile Memory
Low-level formatting
Boot record
23. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Boot sequence
Drive image
Solid State Device: SSD
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
24. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Asymmetric encryption
25. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Nonvolatile Memory
Basic disk
Cable tie
Bus topology
26. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Bridge
Host adapter
Backplane
Computer maintenance
27. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Bridge
Copy backup
Block mode
28. 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.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
29. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
Backward compatible
Brownout
Cable
30. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Byte
Bridge
Drive image
Recovery
31. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Bootable disk
Recovery
Recovery CDs
SCSI host adapter card
32. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Nonvolatile Memory
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Post Diagnostic
33. 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
Cable tie
Buffer
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
34. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Buffer
Access Control List (ACL)
AppleTalk
35. 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
ReadyDrive
Application layer
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Logical Unit Number: LUN
36. 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
CMOS/BIOS
Hybrid hard drives
Low-level formatting
37. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Magnetic hard drive
Adapter card
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
38. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Fault tolerance
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
The electrical system
CMOS/BIOS
39. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Automatic
Bootable disk
40. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Hard boot
SCSI ID
ROM BIOS program
Last worked
41. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Beep codes
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Head
42. 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.
Block mode
Boot record
Buffer
Low-level formatting
43. 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.
Soft boot
SCSI host adapter card
Booting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
44. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Beep codes
SCSI ID
Hybrid hard drives
C: drive
45. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
FAT12
RAID 1
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Adapter card
46. Temporary drop in AC power.
Recovery CDs
Beep codes
Brownout
Loop-back plug
47. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Post Diagnostic
Bus
Autodetection
48. 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 Allocation Table: FAT
Cluster
Bit rate
Nonvolatile Memory
49. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Copy backup
Logical Unit Number: LUN
C: drive
50. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
RAID 0
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
CMOS/BIOS