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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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1. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Bridge
Nonvolatile Memory
New Technology file system: NTFS
2. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Category 5
Terminating resistor
Bus topology
CHKDSK
3. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Bridge
Nonvolatile Memory
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Buffer
4. 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
Byte
Cluster
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 0
5. 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.
Basic disk
Spanning
Byte
Soft boot
6. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
File Allocation Table: FAT
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
AppleTalk
7. 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
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
CHKDSK
Drive image
8. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Drive image
Active partition
Computer maintenance
9. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
C: drive
Bus
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Application Programming Interface (API)
10. 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.
Magnetic hard drive
Boot record
CHKDSK
Recovery CDs
11. Another name for the primary volume.
80-conductor IDE cable
Application Programming Interface (API)
C: drive
Simple volume
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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
The primary partition
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
13. 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
CHKDSK
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
SCSI host adapter card
Bus
14. Temporary drop in AC power.
Cluster
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Brownout
Application layer
15. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Hot-swapping
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Whenever changes are made
FAT12
16. 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.
The electrical system
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
AppleTalk
High-level formatting
17. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
Soft boot
Beep codes
Block mode
18. 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?
Application layer
Loop-back plug
Last worked
Whenever changes are made
19. 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.
C: drive
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Soft boot
Access Control List (ACL)
20. 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.
Simple volume
80-conductor IDE cable
Boot record
Low-level formatting
21. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
80-conductor IDE cable
Brownout
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Access Control List (ACL)
22. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Solid State Device: SSD
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Hot-swapping
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
23. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
Host adapter
Bit rate
Whenever changes are made
24. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
ReadyDrive
Application Programming Interface (API)
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
External SATA: eSATA
25. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
ReadyDrive
80-conductor IDE cable
Recovery
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
26. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Solid State Device: SSD
Asymmetric encryption
Formatting
27. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Backward compatible
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Drive image
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
28. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Automatic
Copy backup
Fault tolerance
29. 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:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Booting
File Allocation Table: FAT
High-level formatting
30. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Booting
Solid State Device: SSD
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
31. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Autodetection
Spanning
Access Control List (ACL)
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
Application layer
Automatic
Bus
Bit rate
33. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
ROM BIOS program
Asymmetric encryption
Formatting
34. To power up a computer from the off position.
Bus
Last worked
Backplane
Cold boot
35. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Drive image
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
36. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hot-swapping
Copy backup
Booting
Hard boot
37. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Cache
Asymmetric encryption
Category 5
38. 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.
AppleTalk
Computer maintenance
CHKDSK
FAT12
39. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
RAID 0
Fault tolerance
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
40. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Loop-back plug
RAID 5
80-conductor IDE cable
Backplane
41. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Automatic
Spanning
Backward compatible
Recovery CDs
42. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
ROM BIOS program
Backplane
Soft boot
43. 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.
Category 5
Extended partition
Application layer
AppleTalk
44. 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
Asymmetric encryption
RAID 0
Brownout
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
45. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Recovery
Cable
Solid State Device: SSD
File Allocation Table: FAT
46. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
ROM BIOS program
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Head
Block mode
47. 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
Bit rate
Hybrid hard drives
Cable tie
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
48. 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
The electrical system
Host adapter
Backplane
Buffer
49. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Bus
Cluster
Host adapter
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
50. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
RAID 0
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Access Control List (ACL)
CHKDSK