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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. The one bootable partition.
Extended partition
Block mode
RAID 5
Active partition
2. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
POST
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
SCSI ID
Read/write head
3. 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
Solid State Device: SSD
The primary partition
RAID 0
Brownout
4. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Bus topology
Cable
Terminating resistor
5. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
C: drive
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Recovery CDs
CHKDSK
6. 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
Autodetection
File system
FAT12
7. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
The electrical system
Bit rate
Low-level formatting
8. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Active partition
POST
Fault tolerance
9. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Low-level formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
10. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
RAID 0
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Boot record
New Technology file system: NTFS
11. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Hard boot
Terminating resistor
Recovery CDs
Automatic
12. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Autodetection
RAID 0
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
13. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
14. 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.
AppleTalk
Formatting
High-level formatting
Byte
15. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Cluster
SCSI host adapter card
Cable
16. 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?
80-conductor IDE cable
Last worked
Read/write head
AppleTalk
17. 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
Beep codes
Extended partition
Magnetic hard drive
ReadyDrive
18. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
RAID 1
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
CMOS/BIOS
Basic disk
19. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
AppleTalk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Read/write head
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
20. 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
CMOS/BIOS
Access Control List (ACL)
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
21. 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.
RAID 5
RAID 0
The primary partition
ReadyDrive
22. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Copy backup
Solid State Device: SSD
23. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Backplane
Category 5
Terminating resistor
Hard boot
24. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Active partition
Boot sequence
New Technology file system: NTFS
25. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Extended partition
SCSI host adapter card
Hybrid hard drives
Block mode
26. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Host adapter
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
External SATA: eSATA
27. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
28. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
ReadyDrive
Loop-back plug
Solid State Device: SSD
Terminating resistor
29. 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.
Last worked
Boot record
Spanning
Logical Unit Number: LUN
30. The latest SCSI standard - serial SCSI - also called serial attached SCSI - allows for more than 15 devices on a single SCSI chain - uses smaller - longer - round cables - and uses smaller hard drive form factors that can support larger capacities th
Hot-swapping
Last worked
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bus topology
31. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
High-level formatting
CHKDSK
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
32. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
CHKDSK
Access Control List (ACL)
Byte
33. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Recovery CDs
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Computer Preventive Maintenance
34. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Bus topology
Drive image
ReadyDrive
Solid State Device: SSD
35. POST means __________________.
Whenever changes are made
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Power-On Self-Test
Attention (AT) command set
36. 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
Soft boot
Read/write head
Hard boot
37. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Nonvolatile Memory
Hot-swapping
ReadyDrive
Spanning
38. 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
Attention (AT) command set
Recovery CDs
RAID 1
39. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
FAT12
Loop-back plug
40. Another name for the primary volume.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Simple volume
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Terminating resistor
41. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
CMOS/BIOS
Attention (AT) command set
42. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Basic disk
External SATA: eSATA
43. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Active partition
RAID 0
Computer maintenance
44. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
New Technology file system: NTFS
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
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.
Host adapter
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
C: drive
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
46. 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.
Hot-swapping
RAID 5
Extended partition
Cable
47. 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
Bridge
Application layer
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
External SATA: eSATA
48. 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.
Active partition
Cluster
RAID 5
Drive image
49. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
RAID 5
C: drive
Application Programming Interface (API)
High-level formatting
50. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
RAID 1
Asymmetric encryption
CHKDSK