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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






3. 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






4. 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?






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.






6. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






7. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.






8. 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.






9. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






10. The one bootable partition.






11. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Temporary drop in AC power.






15. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






16. 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






17. 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.






18. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






19. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






20. 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






21. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






22. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






23. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






24. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






25. 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.






26. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






27. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






28. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






29. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






30. 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.






31. Another name for the primary volume.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. POST means __________________.






35. 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.






36. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






37. 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.






38. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






39. 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?






40. 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.






41. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






42. 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.






43. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.






44. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






45. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






46. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).






47. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.






48. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.






49. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






50. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.







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