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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 file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Boot sequence
Cable
New Technology file system: NTFS
Backward compatible
2. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Terminating resistor
Magnetic hard drive
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
3. POST means __________________.
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Power-On Self-Test
Recovery CDs
4. 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.
Host adapter
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Beep codes
5. 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.
Bus
Fault tolerance
Hard boot
RAID 1
6. 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.
Cache
Asymmetric encryption
ROM BIOS program
ActiveX
7. This can be divided into one or more logical drives. Each logical drive is assigned a drive letter (such as drive G:) and is formatted using its own file system.
Extended partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
C: drive
FAT12
8. 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?
The electrical system
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
RAID 1
Post Diagnostic
9. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
FAT12
Boot sequence
Backplane
Soft boot
10. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
High-level formatting
Recovery CDs
Attention (AT) command set
Hybrid hard drives
11. 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
Bridge
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
12. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Hot-swapping
Bus topology
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Solid State Device: SSD
13. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Cable tie
Simple volume
Read/write head
External SATA: eSATA
14. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Buffer
C: drive
Head
15. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
CHKDSK
RAID 5
Fault tolerance
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
16. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Formatting
Bus topology
Block mode
Direct Memory Access: DMA
17. 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.
Booting
Boot sequence
Boot record
Automatic
18. 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.
Backward compatible
Hybrid hard drives
SCSI ID
Direct Memory Access: DMA
19. Network with each computer
Bus topology
CHKDSK
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
ReadyDrive
20. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
High-level formatting
Category 5
AppleTalk
21. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Spanning
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Brownout
22. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Booting
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
RAID 5
23. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Access Control List (ACL)
Loop-back plug
24. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Terminating resistor
80-conductor IDE cable
Boot record
CHKDSK
25. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Buffer
Access Control List (ACL)
RAID 0
26. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Byte
80-conductor IDE cable
27. 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
Block mode
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Buffer
Basic disk
28. Media through which data is transferred from one part of a computer to another. The bus can be compared to a highway on which data travels within a computer.
Bus
High-level formatting
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Backplane
29. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
CHKDSK
Magnetic hard drive
Backplane
Simple volume
30. 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.
Hot-swapping
Basic disk
Soft boot
Backplane
31. Another name for the primary volume.
RAID 5
Simple volume
Hot-swapping
Application layer
32. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Head
Adapter card
Backward compatible
33. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Attention (AT) command set
Recovery
AppleTalk
Direct Memory Access: DMA
34. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
SCSI host adapter card
The electrical system
RAID 5
Autodetection
35. The one bootable partition.
Read/write head
Drive image
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Active partition
36. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
Read/write head
Computer Preventive Maintenance
37. 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
Host adapter
Attention (AT) command set
ROM BIOS program
38. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Bit rate
Cable
ReadyDrive
Low-level formatting
39. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Adapter card
The primary partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
40. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Hybrid hard drives
Hard boot
Post Diagnostic
Computer maintenance
41. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Autodetection
Soft boot
High-level formatting
Automatic
42. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Autodetection
Solid State Device: SSD
Byte
43. 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.
Soft boot
Access Control List (ACL)
FAT12
Brownout
44. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Low-level formatting
Loop-back plug
Simple volume
45. 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.
RAID 5
File Allocation Table: FAT
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Formatting
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.
Read/write head
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Spanning
Solid State Device: SSD
47. 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.
RAID 1
Cable
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
RAID 5
48. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Spanning
Nonvolatile Memory
The electrical system
Drive image
49. 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
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Basic disk
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
50. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Hot-swapping
Host adapter
Computer Preventive Maintenance