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1. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 1
Beep codes
2. Temporary drop in AC power.
Magnetic hard drive
Fault tolerance
Brownout
File Allocation Table: FAT
3. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Brownout
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Terminating resistor
Cable
4. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Application layer
Access Control List (ACL)
SCSI host adapter card
5. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
CMOS/BIOS
Bit rate
RAID 5
6. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Hybrid hard drives
Solid State Device: SSD
Loop-back plug
7. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Application layer
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
The electrical system
8. 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
Terminating resistor
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
SCSI ID
9. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
ActiveX
80-conductor IDE cable
SCSI ID
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
10. To power up a computer from the off position.
High-level formatting
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Cold boot
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
11. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Access Control List (ACL)
CMOS/BIOS
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Extended partition
12. POST means __________________.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
New Technology file system: NTFS
Spanning
Power-On Self-Test
13. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
External SATA: eSATA
Block mode
The electrical system
Application layer
14. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
Byte
Terminating resistor
AppleTalk
15. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Nonvolatile Memory
Computer Preventive Maintenance
External SATA: eSATA
Category 5
16. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
The primary partition
Hybrid hard drives
17. 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.
Autodetection
Spanning
Extended partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
18. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 0
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Byte
19. The one bootable partition.
Adapter card
Active partition
Boot sequence
SCSI ID
20. 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
Whenever changes are made
Fault tolerance
File system
Loop-back plug
21. 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
80-conductor IDE cable
FAT12
Nonvolatile Memory
22. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Autodetection
Boot record
File Allocation Table: FAT
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
23. 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
Recovery
Loop-back plug
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Fault tolerance
24. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Formatting
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Hybrid hard drives
New Technology file system: NTFS
25. 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.
Bus
Host adapter
CHKDSK
FAT12
26. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Recovery CDs
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Spanning
27. 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
RAID 0
Copy backup
Automatic
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
28. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Head
FAT12
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
29. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Attention (AT) command set
Bus topology
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
30. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
Beep codes
Automatic
RAID 1
31. 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
Head
Whenever changes are made
Magnetic hard drive
Block mode
32. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Magnetic hard drive
Application Programming Interface (API)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
33. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Computer Preventive Maintenance
File system
High-level formatting
34. 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.
Boot record
Byte
FAT12
Bus topology
35. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
ReadyDrive
The primary partition
Boot sequence
Bootable disk
36. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Byte
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Last worked
Computer Preventive Maintenance
37. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Hot-swapping
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
The electrical system
38. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Block mode
CMOS/BIOS
Drive image
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
39. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
ReadyDrive
Read/write head
Last worked
40. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Autodetection
Automatic
Bus
41. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
New Technology file system: NTFS
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
42. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Copy backup
Byte
Brownout
43. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Access Control List (ACL)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
44. 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.
Autodetection
Bus
High-level formatting
Direct Memory Access: DMA
45. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
C: drive
Cache
46. 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
The primary partition
Application layer
File system
SCSI ID
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.
Spanning
Bus topology
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Host adapter
48. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Adapter card
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Hot-swapping
Byte
49. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Whenever changes are made
Post Diagnostic
Loop-back plug
Automatic
50. 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
SCSI host adapter card
Fault tolerance
ROM BIOS program
Adapter card
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