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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. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
AppleTalk
Buffer
Solid State Device: SSD
Hybrid hard drives
2. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Backward compatible
RAID 0
Spanning
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
3. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
File system
File Allocation Table: FAT
Automatic
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
4. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
RAID 1
Terminating resistor
Application Programming Interface (API)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
5. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Cold boot
Drive image
FAT12
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.
POST
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Access Control List (ACL)
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
7. The one bootable partition.
Computer maintenance
Active partition
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cold boot
8. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 0
Backplane
Low-level formatting
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.
Cable tie
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
RAID 1
The primary partition
10. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Booting
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 1
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
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?
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
The electrical system
File system
RAID 5
12. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Copy backup
File Allocation Table: FAT
Recovery
Autodetection
13. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
SCSI ID
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.
Low-level formatting
Boot record
Computer maintenance
Hard boot
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
Solid State Device: SSD
Cable
Asymmetric encryption
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
16. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
RAID 1
Hybrid hard drives
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
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.
High-level formatting
External SATA: eSATA
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Low-level 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
AppleTalk
Cluster
POST
19. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Brownout
Bit rate
Power-On Self-Test
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
Cable
Bus
Buffer
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
21. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Hot-swapping
CHKDSK
Computer Preventive Maintenance
22. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Cable tie
ReadyDrive
Application Programming Interface (API)
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
The primary partition
Extended partition
RAID 0
Spanning
24. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
C: drive
Whenever changes are made
Hot-swapping
External SATA: eSATA
25. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Brownout
Formatting
Magnetic hard drive
Bridge
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
Attention (AT) command set
File system
Cache
Buffer
27. To power up a computer from the off position.
POST
Cold boot
C: drive
Cache
28. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Head
Buffer
Boot record
29. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
The electrical system
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
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.
Boot sequence
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
80-conductor IDE cable
RAID 5
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.
ActiveX
Soft boot
Booting
Computer maintenance
32. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Post Diagnostic
Cold boot
Formatting
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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Fault tolerance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
CHKDSK
Loop-back plug
Backward compatible
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.
ActiveX
Recovery CDs
Category 5
Autodetection
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.
ROM BIOS program
Low-level formatting
Attention (AT) command set
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
37. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
CHKDSK
FAT12
80-conductor IDE cable
CMOS/BIOS
38. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Drive image
SCSI host adapter card
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Last worked
39. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
RAID 5
Whenever changes are made
The primary partition
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
40. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Backward compatible
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Direct Memory Access: DMA
41. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Bus topology
Autodetection
Attention (AT) command set
Low-level formatting
42. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
FAT12
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
SCSI host adapter card
Bit rate
Simple volume
Brownout
44. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
POST
CMOS/BIOS
Read/write head
Bit rate
45. Temporary drop in AC power.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Drive image
POST
Brownout
46. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Bootable disk
The primary partition
Cable
47. Network with each computer
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
ReadyDrive
Spanning
Bus topology
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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Block mode
Bus
Cold boot
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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
RAID 5
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
AppleTalk
50. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Basic disk
POST
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI