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Computer Repair
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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. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
RAID 0
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
2. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Post Diagnostic
Booting
Drive image
3. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Hybrid hard drives
New Technology file system: NTFS
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 5
4. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Post Diagnostic
Simple volume
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
5. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Hard boot
File system
Application Programming Interface (API)
Bus topology
6. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Simple volume
Automatic
Backward compatible
Computer Preventive Maintenance
7. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
C: drive
POST
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
8. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Boot record
Loop-back plug
Application layer
Cable
9. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Read/write head
Brownout
RAID 1
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
10. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
ROM BIOS program
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Spanning
11. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
C: drive
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Backward compatible
12. 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
Adapter card
Direct Memory Access: DMA
RAID 1
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
13. 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
Cache
External SATA: eSATA
Hard boot
14. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Low-level formatting
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
15. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Bus
External SATA: eSATA
Active partition
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
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Spanning
17. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Solid State Device: SSD
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Autodetection
Boot record
18. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Bus
Bootable disk
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Recovery
19. 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?
Terminating resistor
The electrical system
Cluster
Brownout
20. POST means __________________.
Automatic
Backplane
Power-On Self-Test
Soft boot
21. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
ReadyDrive
Application Programming Interface (API)
Terminating resistor
File system
22. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
ActiveX
The electrical system
Recovery
23. 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
Read/write head
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI ID
24. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
ROM BIOS program
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bootable disk
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
25. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hard boot
Hybrid hard drives
Buffer
Backward compatible
26. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Cache
File Allocation Table: FAT
Basic disk
Autodetection
27. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Hard boot
Attention (AT) command set
28. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Autodetection
Bit rate
Read/write head
Hot-swapping
29. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
CHKDSK
Booting
Nonvolatile Memory
30. 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?
Last worked
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
31. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
Loop-back plug
Byte
Copy backup
32. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bit rate
Post Diagnostic
POST
33. 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.
File system
Read/write head
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cluster
34. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Solid State Device: SSD
Cable
80-conductor IDE cable
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
35. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Block mode
Automatic
SCSI host adapter card
36. 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.
Buffer
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
FAT12
Whenever changes are made
37. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Spanning
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hard boot
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
38. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
ActiveX
Bus topology
Host adapter
39. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Solid State Device: SSD
Post Diagnostic
Backplane
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Copy backup
External SATA: eSATA
ROM BIOS program
SCSI ID
41. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
RAID 1
Buffer
CMOS/BIOS
42. 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
ROM BIOS program
Extended partition
Simple volume
43. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Block mode
Low-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
44. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
CMOS/BIOS
Spanning
Soft boot
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
45. 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.
ActiveX
The electrical system
Low-level formatting
Fault tolerance
46. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Block mode
SCSI ID
Automatic
New Technology file system: NTFS
47. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Soft boot
Autodetection
Recovery CDs
Copy backup
48. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
FAT12
Terminating resistor
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
49. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Whenever changes are made
Head
Active partition
50. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
The primary partition
RAID 0