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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Cluster
Head
Logical Unit Number: LUN
RAID 5
2. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Extended partition
Autodetection
Soft boot
Last worked
3. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
SCSI ID
Whenever changes are made
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
4. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cable
C: drive
Cold boot
5. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Recovery
RAID 0
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
RAID 1
6. 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
Computer maintenance
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
7. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Hybrid hard drives
Basic disk
Solid State Device: SSD
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
8. 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.
Host adapter
Cluster
POST
Booting
9. 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.
Beep codes
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Backplane
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
10. 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.
C: drive
Soft boot
Nonvolatile Memory
Access Control List (ACL)
11. 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
Hybrid hard drives
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Buffer
12. 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
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Drive image
C: drive
13. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Simple volume
Hard boot
The primary partition
14. 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
Hybrid hard drives
Cluster
Solid State Device: SSD
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
15. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Boot sequence
Bus topology
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Recovery
16. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
ROM BIOS program
Hard boot
Hybrid hard drives
17. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
The primary partition
Direct Memory Access: DMA
C: drive
Computer maintenance
18. 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
Cluster
Booting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
19. 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
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI host adapter card
Cold boot
Magnetic hard drive
20. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Category 5
File Allocation Table: FAT
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
21. 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.
Bridge
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Beep codes
Bootable disk
22. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Soft boot
Spanning
Last worked
Category 5
23. 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.
Read/write head
Loop-back plug
The primary partition
Hot-swapping
24. 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.
RAID 1
FAT12
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
25. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Basic disk
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Extended partition
SCSI ID
26. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Category 5
High-level formatting
Bridge
27. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Power-On Self-Test
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Copy backup
28. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Bus topology
Fault tolerance
Computer Preventive Maintenance
80-conductor IDE cable
29. 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
File system
C: drive
High-level formatting
Simple volume
30. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
SCSI host adapter card
Whenever changes are made
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Post Diagnostic
31. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
CHKDSK
Spanning
Fault tolerance
32. 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
Head
Whenever changes are made
Application layer
SCSI ID
33. 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
Automatic
Attention (AT) command set
RAID 0
34. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Backward compatible
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Category 5
Hybrid hard drives
35. Network with each computer
Block mode
Extended partition
Bus topology
Formatting
36. 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.
Cluster
File Allocation Table: FAT
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
AppleTalk
37. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Hard boot
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 5
38. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cluster
Soft boot
39. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Drive image
Bus topology
Extended partition
40. 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
Spanning
SCSI host adapter card
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
POST
41. 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.
Soft boot
Low-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
Last worked
42. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 1
Hybrid hard drives
43. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Fault tolerance
Copy backup
Spanning
Application Programming Interface (API)
44. 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
Copy backup
RAID 0
Block mode
Computer Preventive Maintenance
45. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Loop-back plug
Hard boot
Solid State Device: SSD
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
46. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Host adapter
Loop-back plug
Simple volume
Recovery
47. 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
New Technology file system: NTFS
Soft boot
SCSI ID
48. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Host adapter
Post Diagnostic
Loop-back plug
File Allocation Table: FAT
49. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Attention (AT) command set
Head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
50. 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
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Fault tolerance
Access Control List (ACL)