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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
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1. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






2. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






3. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.






7. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.






8. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.






9. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






10. Another name for the primary volume.






11. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






12. 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






13. To power up a computer from the off position.






14. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.






15. POST means __________________.






16. 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.






17. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.






18. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






19. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






20. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






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.






22. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






23. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






24. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.






25. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.






31. 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






32. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






33. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).






34. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.






35. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.






36. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






37. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.






38. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. This tool can be used to test a USB port.






45. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






50. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.







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