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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. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Bus
Head
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
2. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Computer Preventive Maintenance
RAID 1
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
3. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
Hard boot
Category 5
Whenever changes are made
4. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Block mode
SCSI ID
Computer maintenance
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
5. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
High-level formatting
Bridge
AppleTalk
6. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Automatic
Loop-back plug
Simple volume
7. To power up a computer from the off position.
SCSI host adapter card
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cold boot
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
8. 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.
Bus
Cold boot
Asymmetric encryption
Spanning
9. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Hot-swapping
Direct Memory Access: DMA
The electrical system
External SATA: eSATA
10. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Whenever changes are made
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bit rate
11. 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.
Whenever changes are made
Formatting
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Post Diagnostic
12. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Recovery
Brownout
Terminating resistor
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
13. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
ActiveX
Buffer
Recovery CDs
Loop-back plug
14. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Simple volume
15. 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.
ActiveX
Solid State Device: SSD
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
FAT12
16. 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
Autodetection
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
17. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Category 5
Bit rate
FAT12
RAID 0
18. 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.
Bus topology
Hybrid hard drives
Fault tolerance
Formatting
19. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
AppleTalk
Low-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
Soft boot
20. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Cluster
Power-On Self-Test
External SATA: eSATA
Adapter card
21. 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.
RAID 1
Automatic
Host adapter
Boot record
22. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Cold boot
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
23. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Formatting
ActiveX
24. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Cable
80-conductor IDE cable
25. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Cable tie
External SATA: eSATA
26. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
The electrical system
Backplane
Autodetection
High-level formatting
27. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Nonvolatile Memory
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hybrid hard drives
Bridge
28. 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
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
New Technology file system: NTFS
File system
Cable tie
29. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
File system
Nonvolatile Memory
Drive image
New Technology file system: NTFS
30. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Loop-back plug
Hybrid hard drives
31. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Bridge
Bus topology
Category 5
High-level formatting
32. Temporary drop in AC power.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
High-level formatting
Brownout
File Allocation Table: FAT
33. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Soft boot
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Computer maintenance
Cache
34. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
RAID 5
Attention (AT) command set
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Nonvolatile Memory
35. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
ActiveX
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cold boot
The electrical system
36. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Terminating resistor
Cable tie
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
37. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Read/write head
Backplane
80-conductor IDE cable
38. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
New Technology file system: NTFS
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
AppleTalk
39. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
RAID 5
Beep codes
40. 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
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Buffer
Bootable disk
41. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Extended partition
Backward compatible
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
42. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Bus topology
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Host adapter
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
43. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Beep codes
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Host adapter
44. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Active partition
Bootable disk
Bus
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
45. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
CHKDSK
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
RAID 1
46. 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.
Beep codes
Byte
File Allocation Table: FAT
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
47. 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.
C: drive
Bus topology
ActiveX
Simple volume
48. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
SCSI host adapter card
Application Programming Interface (API)
Backplane
Copy backup
49. 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
Drive image
Fault tolerance
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
50. 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?
Byte
Last worked
Adapter card
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS