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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. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Cold boot
Hard boot
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Bridge
2. 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.
Automatic
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Booting
3. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
CHKDSK
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Block mode
4. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Terminating resistor
Cache
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
5. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
File system
80-conductor IDE cable
Boot record
Hybrid hard drives
6. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
The electrical system
Nonvolatile Memory
7. Network with each computer
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
ReadyDrive
POST
Bus topology
8. 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.
Spanning
RAID 0
Application layer
Extended partition
9. 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?
POST
Last worked
CMOS/BIOS
Active partition
10. 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.
Backward compatible
Post Diagnostic
POST
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
11. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
SCSI ID
Boot record
Active partition
Cable tie
12. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Cluster
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Backward compatible
Whenever changes are made
13. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
FAT12
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
RAID 1
14. 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.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Active partition
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
The primary partition
15. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
SCSI host adapter card
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Brownout
Adapter card
16. 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.
Host adapter
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Backward compatible
Nonvolatile Memory
17. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Soft boot
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
File system
The primary partition
18. 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:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Block mode
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
RAID 5
19. 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
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 0
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
High-level formatting
20. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
Adapter card
Byte
21. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
The electrical system
22. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Power-On Self-Test
Beep codes
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Access Control List (ACL)
23. 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.
RAID 5
Byte
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
24. The one bootable partition.
Read/write head
Fault tolerance
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Active partition
25. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
26. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
Whenever changes are made
27. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Hard boot
Simple volume
Drive image
28. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
RAID 0
Bus
AppleTalk
29. 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.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Access Control List (ACL)
Power-On Self-Test
30. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Cluster
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
ReadyDrive
CHKDSK
31. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Formatting
Application Programming Interface (API)
Buffer
32. 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.
Active partition
CMOS/BIOS
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Fault tolerance
33. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Nonvolatile Memory
Fault tolerance
Loop-back plug
Host adapter
34. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
SCSI host adapter card
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
35. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Bus
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Backplane
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
36. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Boot sequence
The electrical system
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
37. 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.
Backward compatible
Power-On Self-Test
Boot record
File Allocation Table: FAT
38. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cluster
39. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Bus
Recovery CDs
Read/write head
Application Programming Interface (API)
40. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Terminating resistor
Hot-swapping
Access Control List (ACL)
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
41. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Last worked
Computer maintenance
42. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
ReadyDrive
C: drive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
43. To power up a computer from the off position.
Loop-back plug
Terminating resistor
Bus
Cold boot
44. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Extended partition
Bridge
External SATA: eSATA
ROM BIOS program
45. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Basic disk
Bootable disk
Power-On Self-Test
Autodetection
46. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Magnetic hard drive
SCSI ID
Direct Memory Access: DMA
47. 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.
Cable tie
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Active partition
Bus
48. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Booting
Autodetection
File Allocation Table: FAT
C: drive
49. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
CHKDSK
Recovery
Basic disk
The primary partition
50. 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.
Beep codes
RAID 0
Application Programming Interface (API)
Low-level formatting