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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Recovery
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Cold boot
2. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
C: drive
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Extended partition
3. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 5
Computer maintenance
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
4. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Post Diagnostic
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
5. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Recovery
Loop-back plug
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
6. 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
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Host adapter
Copy backup
RAID 0
7. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
FAT12
External SATA: eSATA
Terminating resistor
8. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
80-conductor IDE cable
Access Control List (ACL)
Application layer
9. 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.
Cold boot
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
ReadyDrive
ActiveX
10. 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.
Byte
Block mode
Boot record
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
11. 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.
Soft boot
Brownout
Basic disk
RAID 1
12. 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.
Host adapter
Solid State Device: SSD
Post Diagnostic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
13. 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.
Application layer
ROM BIOS program
RAID 0
Booting
14. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Backward compatible
Copy backup
C: drive
Bus
15. 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
Active partition
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
File system
16. 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
Boot sequence
Cable
Logical Unit Number: LUN
17. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Adapter card
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
The electrical system
18. 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
Buffer
Soft boot
Whenever changes are made
New Technology file system: NTFS
19. 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
Formatting
Boot record
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
20. 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.
Category 5
RAID 5
Low-level formatting
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
21. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Magnetic hard drive
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Bootable disk
ReadyDrive
22. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
ActiveX
Fault tolerance
External SATA: eSATA
23. 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
Asymmetric encryption
File system
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
ReadyDrive
24. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Magnetic hard drive
Basic disk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
SCSI host adapter card
25. 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?
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Last worked
The primary partition
Drive image
26. 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:
Backplane
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
27. 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
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
ReadyDrive
Application layer
28. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Backplane
Whenever changes are made
RAID 5
29. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Loop-back plug
CHKDSK
Bootable disk
30. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Soft boot
Simple volume
Terminating resistor
31. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Last worked
Cluster
Access Control List (ACL)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
32. 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.
File system
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Loop-back plug
Extended partition
33. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Hot-swapping
Terminating resistor
C: drive
34. 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.
AppleTalk
Last worked
Category 5
RAID 5
35. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Booting
Bootable disk
Application Programming Interface (API)
Cluster
36. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Brownout
Category 5
Automatic
Boot record
37. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Application layer
Booting
External SATA: eSATA
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
38. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Formatting
SCSI ID
80-conductor IDE cable
Magnetic hard drive
39. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
High-level formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
ReadyDrive
40. Method for encrypting data on a network. Uses a private key for writing messages and a public key to decode the messages. Only the private key needs to be kept secret. Public keys can be distributed openly.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Booting
Asymmetric encryption
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
41. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Extended partition
External SATA: eSATA
RAID 5
Beep codes
42. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Simple volume
Post Diagnostic
Loop-back plug
Boot sequence
43. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
ReadyDrive
Recovery CDs
New Technology file system: NTFS
Boot sequence
44. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
ReadyDrive
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cold boot
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.
Block mode
CHKDSK
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
46. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Soft boot
Power-On Self-Test
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
47. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Hot-swapping
Attention (AT) command set
ReadyDrive
48. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Asymmetric encryption
49. Network with each computer
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Application Programming Interface (API)
Bus topology
50. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Brownout
Boot sequence