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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






2. 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?






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






6. 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.






7. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






8. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






9. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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






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






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






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






25. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. The one bootable partition.






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






38. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






39. 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.






40. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






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






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






43. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.






44. 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.






45. POST means __________________.






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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