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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Fault tolerance
RAID 1
Loop-back plug
ReadyDrive
2. 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.
Byte
File system
Block mode
Bootable disk
3. 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.
Hot-swapping
Fault tolerance
Soft boot
File Allocation Table: FAT
4. 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?
The electrical system
Byte
Cold boot
SCSI host adapter card
5. Four Main Parts of the boot process: 1. BIOS checks hardware through POST. 2. The ___________ searches for and loads an OS. 3. The OS configures the system and completes its own loading. 4. The user executes application software.
ROM BIOS program
Host adapter
Last worked
Extended partition
6. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Adapter card
Last worked
New Technology file system: NTFS
7. 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.
Soft boot
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cluster
Loop-back plug
8. Network with each computer
Backward compatible
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Basic disk
Bus topology
9. 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
File system
Loop-back plug
Category 5
ActiveX
10. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
80-conductor IDE cable
Autodetection
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
11. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Hot-swapping
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
FAT12
12. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Cold boot
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Host adapter
13. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Read/write head
Head
Loop-back plug
CHKDSK
14. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Recovery CDs
Magnetic hard drive
Loop-back plug
New Technology file system: NTFS
15. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Copy backup
Bootable disk
Solid State Device: SSD
16. 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.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Drive image
RAID 5
ReadyDrive
17. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Adapter card
Automatic
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
18. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Basic disk
80-conductor IDE cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Extended partition
19. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Backplane
Read/write head
CHKDSK
Category 5
20. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
New Technology file system: NTFS
AppleTalk
Bus
21. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Formatting
Bit rate
Application layer
22. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
File Allocation Table: FAT
Block mode
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
CMOS/BIOS
23. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Bus topology
Attention (AT) command set
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Category 5
24. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Read/write head
Drive image
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
25. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
26. 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.
Block mode
Asymmetric encryption
ROM BIOS program
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
27. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
Extended partition
Computer maintenance
Adapter card
28. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Terminating resistor
Hot-swapping
29. 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
Spanning
RAID 1
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
30. 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.
AppleTalk
SCSI ID
Host adapter
Nonvolatile Memory
31. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Bridge
Loop-back plug
RAID 0
CMOS/BIOS
32. 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.
SCSI ID
The primary partition
Byte
Category 5
33. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
New Technology file system: NTFS
ReadyDrive
Basic disk
Nonvolatile Memory
34. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Recovery
AppleTalk
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
80-conductor IDE cable
35. 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
Byte
Post Diagnostic
Buffer
ActiveX
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.
Bit rate
Spanning
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Application layer
37. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
CMOS/BIOS
Soft boot
C: drive
38. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
The electrical system
Beep codes
Bit rate
Computer Preventive Maintenance
39. Another name for the primary volume.
Automatic
Basic disk
Simple volume
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Automatic
Power-On Self-Test
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Loop-back plug
41. 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.
Brownout
POST
Computer maintenance
Bus topology
42. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Recovery
Block mode
Beep codes
43. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
Solid State Device: SSD
CMOS/BIOS
Backplane
44. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
AppleTalk
Nonvolatile Memory
Backplane
Cable
45. 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
Nonvolatile Memory
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 5
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
46. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Boot sequence
Brownout
External SATA: eSATA
Cache
47. 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.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Category 5
Booting
Simple volume
48. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Beep codes
Boot sequence
File system
External SATA: eSATA
49. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Application Programming Interface (API)
CHKDSK
SCSI ID
Block mode
50. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Computer maintenance
Beep codes
Spanning
Byte