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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.
RAID 5
RAID 0
Hard boot
Application layer
2. 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.
Soft boot
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
AppleTalk
Booting
3. 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?
Last worked
Bus
The electrical system
Low-level formatting
4. 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.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Backward compatible
File Allocation Table: FAT
Soft boot
5. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Soft boot
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Terminating resistor
6. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
80-conductor IDE cable
Bootable disk
RAID 0
7. 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.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Host adapter
CHKDSK
Nonvolatile Memory
8. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Loop-back plug
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Automatic
CHKDSK
9. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
File Allocation Table: FAT
C: drive
Direct Memory Access: DMA
ActiveX
10. 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.
Bus topology
Hot-swapping
High-level formatting
Cache
11. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Recovery CDs
Hot-swapping
12. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
POST
Recovery
Post Diagnostic
Cold boot
13. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
External SATA: eSATA
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Head
Spanning
14. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Spanning
Beep codes
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Application layer
15. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Adapter card
Backplane
Cluster
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
16. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Boot sequence
Automatic
17. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
80-conductor IDE cable
C: drive
Solid State Device: SSD
18. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
Power-On Self-Test
Bus
Cable
19. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Loop-back plug
Copy backup
20. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Fault tolerance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Power-On Self-Test
Beep codes
21. 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.
Boot record
Hard boot
Application layer
The electrical system
22. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Computer maintenance
Recovery
Hot-swapping
23. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
AppleTalk
Soft boot
24. 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
Copy backup
SCSI host adapter card
CMOS/BIOS
Booting
25. 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
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
SCSI ID
Post Diagnostic
Magnetic hard drive
26. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Boot record
ROM BIOS program
Computer maintenance
Computer Preventive Maintenance
27. 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
Host adapter
Automatic
C: drive
Buffer
28. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Hot-swapping
Hybrid hard drives
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
29. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Soft boot
Extended partition
Copy backup
Backplane
30. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Soft boot
Terminating resistor
Drive image
31. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
80-conductor IDE cable
Terminating resistor
External SATA: eSATA
Access Control List (ACL)
32. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Hot-swapping
Application Programming Interface (API)
Cluster
Backward compatible
33. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
RAID 0
Formatting
Backward compatible
34. 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
Access Control List (ACL)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Formatting
New Technology file system: NTFS
35. 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
AppleTalk
Nonvolatile Memory
External SATA: eSATA
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
36. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Post Diagnostic
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application Programming Interface (API)
37. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
POST
File Allocation Table: FAT
Attention (AT) command set
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
38. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Access Control List (ACL)
Spanning
Bootable disk
Copy backup
39. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Attention (AT) command set
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
ActiveX
40. 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.
Computer maintenance
Cable
Bit rate
FAT12
41. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Boot record
Formatting
ReadyDrive
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
42. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Boot sequence
Bit rate
Brownout
FAT12
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.
ROM BIOS program
Cache
Extended partition
RAID 1
44. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Hot-swapping
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Hybrid hard drives
Cable
45. 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.
Category 5
POST
Backplane
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
46. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Spanning
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
47. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
RAID 1
Formatting
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
48. The one bootable partition.
SCSI ID
Byte
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Active partition
49. 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?
Last worked
Low-level formatting
Drive image
Cable tie
50. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Adapter card
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Fault tolerance
High-level formatting