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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.






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






3. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






4. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.






5. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






6. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






7. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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.






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.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Network with each computer






21. Temporary drop in AC power.






22. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






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.






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






33. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






34. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






35. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






36. 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






37. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






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






39. The one bootable partition.






40. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






41. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






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.






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.






48. 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.






49. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






50. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.