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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 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
RAID 5
Computer maintenance
File system
Hard boot
2. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
External SATA: eSATA
Terminating resistor
80-conductor IDE cable
3. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Boot record
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Asymmetric encryption
4. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Drive image
Bit rate
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
5. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Hard boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
6. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Backward compatible
Drive image
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
7. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Asymmetric encryption
SCSI ID
Last worked
Adapter card
8. Generally the label for the first hard drive in a computer system. Drive A and Drive B are reserved for floppy drives. Drive B is rarely used on current computers.
Backward compatible
File Allocation Table: FAT
C: drive
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
9. 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
Drive image
SCSI ID
Extended partition
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
10. 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.
Cache
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
11. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
FAT12
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
12. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Last worked
Adapter card
13. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Simple volume
Cold boot
Recovery
Attention (AT) command set
14. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Read/write head
CHKDSK
Drive image
15. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
AppleTalk
Power-On Self-Test
16. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Cable tie
Magnetic hard drive
Brownout
17. A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe - such as a hardware failure or power outage - so that data is not lost.
Boot record
Byte
Fault tolerance
External SATA: eSATA
18. 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.
Fault tolerance
Asymmetric encryption
Active partition
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
19. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Booting
Bus
Power-On Self-Test
20. 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 Attached SCSI: SAS
Cold boot
ActiveX
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
21. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Category 5
Extended partition
Boot record
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
22. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
ActiveX
Booting
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
23. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
CMOS/BIOS
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Backplane
Fault tolerance
24. 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.
Drive image
Bus topology
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Recovery CDs
25. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Byte
Drive image
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
26. 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.
Buffer
Power-On Self-Test
Nonvolatile Memory
Extended partition
27. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
The primary partition
Loop-back plug
Bootable disk
Recovery
28. Another name for the primary volume.
POST
Drive image
Simple volume
Loop-back plug
29. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Block mode
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Cache
RAID 0
30. 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
ROM BIOS program
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
The electrical system
Asymmetric encryption
31. 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
ROM BIOS program
Nonvolatile Memory
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Host adapter
32. 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.
ActiveX
File system
Solid State Device: SSD
Soft boot
33. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
High-level formatting
SCSI ID
File Allocation Table: FAT
34. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Asymmetric encryption
Soft boot
35. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Adapter card
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
36. 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?
Host adapter
The electrical system
Recovery
Drive image
37. 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.
RAID 0
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
SCSI ID
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
38. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Extended partition
C: drive
Boot record
CMOS/BIOS
39. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Buffer
SCSI host adapter card
40. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Whenever changes are made
Read/write head
Application layer
41. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Application layer
Extended partition
Computer maintenance
42. To power up a computer from the off position.
Extended partition
Cold boot
High-level formatting
File Allocation Table: FAT
43. 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.
Copy backup
Boot record
New Technology file system: NTFS
RAID 1
44. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
SCSI ID
FAT12
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Post Diagnostic
45. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Bit rate
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Nonvolatile Memory
ReadyDrive
46. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
CHKDSK
Recovery CDs
Cable
47. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Buffer
Whenever changes are made
Logical Unit Number: LUN
External SATA: eSATA
48. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Host adapter
Autodetection
New Technology file system: NTFS
49. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Drive image
Hard boot
Post Diagnostic
50. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Buffer
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Automatic
Extended partition