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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. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
ROM BIOS program
Backplane
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
2. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Brownout
ReadyDrive
FAT12
Head
3. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
High-level formatting
Whenever changes are made
Extended partition
4. 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.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application Programming Interface (API)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
High-level formatting
5. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Automatic
RAID 5
Backplane
6. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Solid State Device: SSD
Simple volume
New Technology file system: NTFS
Whenever changes are made
7. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
The electrical system
Spanning
Loop-back plug
8. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
80-conductor IDE cable
Booting
Hard boot
9. 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.
FAT12
Asymmetric encryption
C: drive
Active partition
10. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Power-On Self-Test
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Logical Unit Number: LUN
11. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Fault tolerance
Terminating resistor
Attention (AT) command set
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
12. 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.
Bootable disk
Cold boot
Soft boot
RAID 1
13. 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.
SCSI ID
Hybrid hard drives
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
RAID 0
14. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Cold boot
Access Control List (ACL)
Beep codes
15. To power up a computer from the off position.
Nonvolatile Memory
Bit rate
Cold boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
16. 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.
Fault tolerance
Attention (AT) command set
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
17. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Soft boot
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
18. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Recovery CDs
Beep codes
Basic disk
The electrical system
19. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Low-level formatting
File Allocation Table: FAT
Solid State Device: SSD
SCSI host adapter card
20. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
FAT12
Category 5
Bus topology
Nonvolatile Memory
21. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Bootable disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Recovery CDs
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
22. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
SCSI host adapter card
80-conductor IDE cable
Basic disk
23. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Basic disk
Bootable disk
Category 5
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
24. 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
Asymmetric encryption
80-conductor IDE cable
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Application Programming Interface (API)
25. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
RAID 0
Cache
Low-level formatting
26. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
CHKDSK
The primary partition
Bit rate
New Technology file system: NTFS
27. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
External SATA: eSATA
Simple volume
28. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
High-level formatting
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
ROM BIOS program
29. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Recovery
File Allocation Table: FAT
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Backplane
30. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Backward compatible
Read/write head
C: drive
80-conductor IDE cable
31. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Cold boot
Cluster
Attention (AT) command set
Adapter card
32. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
File system
Category 5
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
33. 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.
Basic disk
Beep codes
ROM BIOS program
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
34. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Terminating resistor
Access Control List (ACL)
The primary partition
Boot sequence
35. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Basic disk
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Soft boot
Application layer
36. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
FAT12
Host adapter
Low-level formatting
37. 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)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Power-On Self-Test
Terminating resistor
38. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Last worked
Formatting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
39. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Cache
Drive image
Hybrid hard drives
40. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bit rate
Backward compatible
Last worked
41. 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.
Computer maintenance
ROM BIOS program
Recovery
SCSI ID
42. 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
Extended partition
Bootable disk
Bit rate
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
43. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
FAT12
Last worked
Block mode
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
44. 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.
ActiveX
Backplane
Drive image
Simple volume
45. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Hybrid hard drives
46. 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.
Cold boot
Basic disk
Asymmetric encryption
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
47. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Whenever changes are made
Byte
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Terminating resistor
48. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Bus topology
Hybrid hard drives
Cable tie
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
49. 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
Automatic
SCSI host adapter card
RAID 0
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
50. 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.
Cold boot
Byte
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Cluster