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Subject
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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. 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.
Block mode
ActiveX
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
FAT12
2. 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
Solid State Device: SSD
SCSI ID
Hot-swapping
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
3. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Hard boot
ActiveX
Hot-swapping
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
4. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Automatic
Formatting
External SATA: eSATA
5. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Nonvolatile Memory
RAID 0
RAID 1
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
6. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
The electrical system
Formatting
CHKDSK
Boot sequence
7. 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
Category 5
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
8. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Fault tolerance
CMOS/BIOS
Spanning
9. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
80-conductor IDE cable
Drive image
Cache
Spanning
10. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Hot-swapping
RAID 5
Loop-back plug
Computer maintenance
11. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Category 5
12. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
The primary partition
Backward compatible
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hot-swapping
13. 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
Recovery CDs
Low-level formatting
RAID 0
ActiveX
14. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Boot sequence
Backplane
ReadyDrive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
15. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Cluster
Cache
Bridge
Category 5
16. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
ReadyDrive
The electrical system
SCSI ID
17. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Brownout
Bit rate
Spanning
RAID 1
18. 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.
AppleTalk
Host adapter
High-level formatting
80-conductor IDE cable
19. 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.
Brownout
AppleTalk
ActiveX
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
20. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
The primary partition
Soft boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Formatting
21. POST means __________________.
80-conductor IDE cable
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
RAID 5
Power-On Self-Test
22. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Spanning
SCSI host adapter card
80-conductor IDE cable
Read/write head
23. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Attention (AT) command set
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Spanning
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.
Cache
ActiveX
Head
Backward compatible
25. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Whenever changes are made
Nonvolatile Memory
Low-level formatting
26. 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.
Byte
Boot record
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
27. 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.
Extended partition
File system
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Automatic
28. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Loop-back plug
Buffer
Extended partition
29. 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
High-level formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
Application layer
Solid State Device: SSD
30. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Copy backup
ROM BIOS program
ReadyDrive
31. 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
Extended partition
Soft boot
File system
ReadyDrive
32. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Fault tolerance
CHKDSK
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
33. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
SCSI ID
Boot record
34. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Soft boot
Last worked
Cable
Loop-back plug
35. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hybrid hard drives
Drive image
Backplane
Post Diagnostic
36. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Backplane
Adapter card
Bus topology
37. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Post Diagnostic
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Bus topology
38. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
The primary partition
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
39. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Soft boot
Copy backup
Hot-swapping
Bus
40. Another name for the primary volume.
Hot-swapping
Access Control List (ACL)
Active partition
Simple volume
41. 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.
Drive image
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Buffer
42. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
High-level formatting
Low-level formatting
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cable
43. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Head
Drive image
Access Control List (ACL)
44. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Adapter card
Attention (AT) command set
Whenever changes are made
Backplane
45. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Recovery
RAID 0
Hard boot
File system
46. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Terminating resistor
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
47. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Loop-back plug
Soft boot
Access Control List (ACL)
48. 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
Whenever changes are made
Cache
Magnetic hard drive
Cluster
49. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Byte
Cache
Autodetection
Power-On Self-Test
50. 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
Simple volume
Computer maintenance
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Buffer