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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
ROM BIOS program
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Attention (AT) command set
Computer maintenance
2. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
80-conductor IDE cable
Loop-back plug
Read/write head
Beep codes
3. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Bit rate
The primary partition
Nonvolatile Memory
4. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
Recovery
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
5. 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.
The primary partition
Low-level formatting
Loop-back plug
Block mode
6. 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.
C: drive
Cable
Last worked
Extended partition
7. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Backplane
Boot record
Simple volume
8. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
SCSI ID
80-conductor IDE cable
9. 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
The primary partition
SCSI ID
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 0
10. 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.
Last worked
File Allocation Table: FAT
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Cluster
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
New Technology file system: NTFS
SCSI host adapter card
Category 5
Magnetic hard drive
12. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
RAID 0
Whenever changes are made
Bridge
Post Diagnostic
13. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Cluster
Bus topology
File Allocation Table: FAT
14. 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.
Hard boot
Attention (AT) command set
High-level formatting
The primary partition
15. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
FAT12
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Computer maintenance
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
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
ROM BIOS program
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
17. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
External SATA: eSATA
Category 5
Byte
Beep codes
18. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Category 5
Solid State Device: SSD
Basic disk
Magnetic hard drive
19. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Bridge
Category 5
File Allocation Table: FAT
20. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
New Technology file system: NTFS
Buffer
Drive image
21. 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.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Copy backup
FAT12
AppleTalk
22. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
CMOS/BIOS
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
23. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Loop-back plug
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
24. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
25. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Backward compatible
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
The electrical system
Basic disk
26. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
High-level formatting
Computer maintenance
Simple volume
Loop-back plug
27. 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?
Beep codes
Last worked
File system
SCSI host adapter card
28. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
External SATA: eSATA
AppleTalk
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
29. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Nonvolatile Memory
Drive image
Read/write head
30. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
C: drive
Bus topology
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
31. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Access Control List (ACL)
High-level formatting
RAID 0
Magnetic hard drive
32. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Low-level formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
Last worked
RAID 1
33. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Byte
Extended partition
Computer maintenance
34. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
C: drive
ReadyDrive
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Cable
35. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Category 5
C: drive
Application Programming Interface (API)
External SATA: eSATA
36. 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.
Beep codes
Host adapter
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bridge
37. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Fault tolerance
Last worked
Magnetic hard drive
38. 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
Adapter card
Active partition
RAID 0
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
39. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Hot-swapping
Host adapter
40. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
High-level formatting
Cache
41. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Simple volume
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Hard boot
New Technology file system: NTFS
42. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Fault tolerance
Nonvolatile Memory
Hybrid hard drives
Hot-swapping
43. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Head
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bit rate
44. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Brownout
Bit rate
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
45. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
SCSI host adapter card
46. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hard boot
Extended partition
The primary partition
47. 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.
Cluster
Cable tie
Recovery
SCSI host adapter card
48. 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.
Soft boot
SCSI ID
Block mode
Computer maintenance
49. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
CMOS/BIOS
Cache
50. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Asymmetric encryption
Nonvolatile Memory
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector