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1. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






2. Temporary drop in AC power.






3. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.






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






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






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






7. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






8. 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






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






10. To power up a computer from the off position.






11. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?






12. POST means __________________.






13. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. The one bootable partition.






20. 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






21. 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?






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






29. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






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






31. 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






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






33. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






34. 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.






35. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)






36. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.






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






38. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






39. 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






40. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






41. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






42. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. Layer 7 of the OSI reference model. This layer provides services to application processes such as electronic mail - file transfer - and terminal emulation that are outside of the OSI model. The application layer identifies and establishes the availab






47. 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.






48. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.






49. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






50. 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







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