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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 duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Fault tolerance
RAID 1
2. 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.
Read/write head
Fault tolerance
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Hot-swapping
3. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Cold boot
Boot sequence
Buffer
4. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
POST
Basic disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
Byte
5. 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.
POST
Block mode
Post Diagnostic
Terminating resistor
6. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Backplane
AppleTalk
Cable
RAID 0
7. 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.
CHKDSK
ReadyDrive
ROM BIOS program
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
8. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cold boot
Loop-back plug
Nonvolatile Memory
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
Brownout
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
C: drive
Magnetic hard drive
10. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
C: drive
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Hybrid hard drives
Computer maintenance
11. 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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
C: drive
Cold boot
Computer Preventive Maintenance
12. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Last worked
Block mode
Backplane
13. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Cold boot
Terminating resistor
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 5
14. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Bit rate
CHKDSK
SCSI host adapter card
15. 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.
Loop-back plug
Post Diagnostic
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bus
16. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Spanning
FAT12
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Autodetection
17. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
AppleTalk
SCSI host adapter card
Formatting
18. 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
POST
Power-On Self-Test
Application layer
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
19. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Solid State Device: SSD
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Head
Booting
20. 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:
Recovery CDs
C: drive
Attention (AT) command set
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
21. 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.
Backward compatible
Recovery CDs
Buffer
80-conductor IDE cable
22. To power up a computer from the off position.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
High-level formatting
Host adapter
Cold boot
23. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Extended partition
Category 5
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
24. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Computer maintenance
Basic disk
Backward compatible
25. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Hard boot
Fault tolerance
Formatting
26. 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.
Copy backup
Byte
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
The electrical system
27. 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
Last worked
Hybrid hard drives
Buffer
28. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Head
Backward compatible
29. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Beep codes
Autodetection
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
30. 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
File system
Brownout
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Asymmetric encryption
31. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
CHKDSK
Cable
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Attention (AT) command set
32. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Head
RAID 1
Loop-back plug
33. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Automatic
Brownout
Recovery CDs
Application Programming Interface (API)
34. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Byte
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Bus
35. Temporary drop in AC power.
Bus topology
Brownout
RAID 5
Terminating resistor
36. 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.
Backward compatible
Hard boot
Cable tie
RAID 5
37. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Cold boot
Bus
Read/write head
CMOS/BIOS
38. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Basic disk
Simple volume
Drive image
39. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
Booting
Attention (AT) command set
80-conductor IDE cable
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.
Beep codes
Block mode
FAT12
Brownout
41. 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)
Terminating resistor
C: drive
RAID 0
42. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Whenever changes are made
C: drive
Boot record
43. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Cluster
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Active partition
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
44. 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.
Loop-back plug
RAID 5
Buffer
Boot record
45. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Block mode
Buffer
Application Programming Interface (API)
46. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Loop-back plug
Backplane
Bridge
47. 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.
Host adapter
The electrical system
Cold boot
Hybrid hard drives
48. 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?
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bus
Copy backup
The electrical system
49. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Beep codes
Post Diagnostic
C: drive
50. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Application layer
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE