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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The one bootable partition.






2. 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.






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






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?






5. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






6. 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?






7. 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.






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






9. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






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. 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






12. 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.






13. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






20. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.






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






22. 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.






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






24. Most often called a hard drive - comes in two sizes for personal computers: the 2.5" size is used for laptop computers and the 3.5" size is used for desktops. In addition - a smaller 1.8" size (about the size of a credit card) hard drive is used in s






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






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






27. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






28. 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.






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






30. 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






31. Network with each computer






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.






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






37. 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.






38. Discovers the local address (MAC address) of a station on the network when the IP address is known. End stations as well as routers use ARP to discover local addresses:






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






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






41. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






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






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






50. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST