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1. 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.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
File Allocation Table: FAT
Attention (AT) command set
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
2. Temporary drop in AC power.
Backward compatible
Brownout
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Bus topology
3. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
RAID 0
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Extended partition
4. Another name for the primary volume.
Copy backup
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Simple volume
CHKDSK
5. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Fault tolerance
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
6. 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.
ActiveX
Magnetic hard drive
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Loop-back plug
7. 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
CMOS/BIOS
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
8. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Hard boot
Low-level formatting
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Byte
9. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Terminating resistor
Head
Formatting
Last worked
10. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Copy backup
ReadyDrive
Solid State Device: SSD
Hybrid hard drives
11. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Head
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Autodetection
Formatting
12. 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
Drive image
Soft boot
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
13. The term__________refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything but press the on button.
Booting
AppleTalk
Hybrid hard drives
Loop-back plug
14. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
SCSI ID
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
15. 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
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI ID
Last worked
16. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Hot-swapping
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
80-conductor IDE cable
17. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Byte
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cache
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
18. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
RAID 0
C: drive
Byte
19. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Recovery CDs
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
20. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Last worked
Magnetic hard drive
External SATA: eSATA
FAT12
21. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
RAID 5
Fault tolerance
Bridge
22. 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.
SCSI ID
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Backward compatible
Low-level formatting
23. POST means __________________.
Cable
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Solid State Device: SSD
Power-On Self-Test
24. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Spanning
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
POST
Hard boot
25. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Solid State Device: SSD
26. 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.
Terminating resistor
Backplane
Simple volume
AppleTalk
27. 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
Spanning
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Byte
Application layer
28. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cable
ROM BIOS program
Loop-back plug
29. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
FAT12
Drive image
Bus topology
Hybrid hard drives
30. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Buffer
Nonvolatile Memory
File system
31. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
File Allocation Table: FAT
C: drive
80-conductor IDE cable
32. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Access Control List (ACL)
Automatic
Extended partition
33. 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.
Recovery
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Application layer
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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Spanning
Byte
Loop-back plug
35. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
SCSI host adapter card
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Magnetic hard drive
36. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
POST
Terminating resistor
Head
Active partition
37. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Application layer
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Application Programming Interface (API)
Recovery
38. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Simple volume
Byte
Cache
39. 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.
Buffer
Direct Memory Access: DMA
FAT12
Boot record
40. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Boot record
Cache
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
41. 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
Asymmetric encryption
Cluster
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
42. 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.
High-level formatting
Whenever changes are made
Cache
Recovery
43. 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?
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Last worked
Application layer
Hybrid hard drives
44. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Bus topology
Asymmetric encryption
RAID 0
Cable tie
45. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Cable
Backward compatible
Application Programming Interface (API)
46. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
The primary partition
AppleTalk
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
47. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
SCSI host adapter card
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
48. A number assigned to a logical device (such as a tray in a CD changer) that is part of a physical SCSI device - which is assigned a SCSI ID.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cache
Whenever changes are made
Logical Unit Number: LUN
49. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Head
Hot-swapping
Bootable disk
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
50. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Nonvolatile Memory
RAID 1
Backplane
ROM BIOS program
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