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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






4. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






5. 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.






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. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.






8. 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:






9. 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.






10. A number assigned to a logical device (such as a tray in a CD changer) that is part of a physical SCSI device - which is assigned a SCSI ID.






11. 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






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






13. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.






25. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






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






27. 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.






28. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






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






30. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






31. 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.






32. The one bootable partition.






33. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






34. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






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






36. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






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






38. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






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






41. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






42. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






43. Also known as redundant array of independent disks: Technology uses an array of hard drives used to provide fault tolerance and/or improvement in performance.






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






45. 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?






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






50. 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.