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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. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
SCSI host adapter card
Whenever changes are made
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Spanning
2. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Boot sequence
Drive image
Hard boot
3. POST means __________________.
Host adapter
Power-On Self-Test
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Fault tolerance
4. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Formatting
Byte
Post Diagnostic
5. 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.
Last worked
Head
Bridge
Booting
6. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
POST
Spanning
SCSI host adapter card
7. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Autodetection
Post Diagnostic
FAT12
8. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
Backward compatible
Low-level formatting
Spanning
9. 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
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hard boot
CHKDSK
10. 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
Automatic
Power-On Self-Test
Byte
File system
11. Formatting performed by means of the DOS or Windows Format program (for example - FORMAT C:/S creates the boot record - FAT - and root directory on drive C and makes the drive bootable). Also called OS formatting.
High-level formatting
Host adapter
SCSI host adapter card
Asymmetric encryption
12. 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.
Head
Byte
Extended partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
13. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Drive image
Solid State Device: SSD
Beep codes
Basic disk
14. 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.
Adapter card
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Bit rate
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
15. 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.
Read/write head
Booting
ActiveX
Post Diagnostic
16. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Application layer
SCSI host adapter card
AppleTalk
17. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Booting
Hot-swapping
18. 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.
Bit rate
Bus
Whenever changes are made
Host adapter
19. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Simple volume
New Technology file system: NTFS
20. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
CHKDSK
Nonvolatile Memory
Post Diagnostic
80-conductor IDE cable
21. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
Head
Drive image
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
22. 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:
Copy backup
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Computer maintenance
FAT12
23. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Soft boot
Recovery
Computer maintenance
Read/write head
24. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Buffer
Hot-swapping
Bridge
Bit rate
25. 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
AppleTalk
80-conductor IDE cable
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
ReadyDrive
26. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Booting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Computer maintenance
27. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Boot record
CMOS/BIOS
28. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cache
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Bit rate
29. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Power-On Self-Test
Boot sequence
30. 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.
Cold boot
Autodetection
ROM BIOS program
Formatting
31. 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.
Nonvolatile Memory
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Extended partition
Bit rate
32. 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
Bit rate
Magnetic hard drive
Read/write head
AppleTalk
33. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Drive image
Active partition
Terminating resistor
34. Temporary drop in AC power.
Post Diagnostic
Brownout
Low-level formatting
Active partition
35. 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
Head
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
CMOS/BIOS
36. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Bus
Backward compatible
37. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Hard boot
80-conductor IDE cable
Nonvolatile Memory
38. 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
Bus
RAID 0
Solid State Device: SSD
The electrical system
39. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Bridge
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Autodetection
40. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
FAT12
Drive image
Cache
New Technology file system: NTFS
41. The one bootable partition.
Drive image
Hot-swapping
Active partition
Loop-back plug
42. 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
Application layer
FAT12
Computer maintenance
Post Diagnostic
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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Simple volume
Recovery
Cable
44. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Terminating resistor
Basic disk
Boot sequence
Low-level formatting
45. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Buffer
Magnetic hard drive
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
46. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Automatic
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Power-On Self-Test
47. 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
CHKDSK
Category 5
Adapter card
48. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
Soft boot
C: drive
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
49. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Automatic
Read/write head
Bus
Bridge
50. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Brownout
Formatting
New Technology file system: NTFS