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






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






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






5. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






6. 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.






7. The one bootable partition.






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






9. 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.






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






11. When troubleshooting a failed boot - if you do not see any lights or hear any noises - what hardware system do you first assume is at fault?






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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






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






17. 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.






18. One or more sectors that constitute the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing data (also referred to as a file allocation unit). Files are written to a disk as groups of whole clusters.






19. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?






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






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






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






41. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.






42. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






43. 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






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






45. Temporary drop in AC power.






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






47. Network with each computer






48. 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.






49. 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.






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