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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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






2. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






3. Another name for the primary volume.






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






5. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)






6. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. POST means __________________.






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






13. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






18. 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






19. 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.






20. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.






31. 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?






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.






36. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






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






38. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






39. 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






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. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.






42. 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.






43. The volume is assigned a drive letter (such as drive C: or drive D:) and is formatted using a file system. Also called simple volume.






44. 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.






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






46. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.






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






48. 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.






49. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.






50. 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