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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. Network with each computer
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Spanning
Boot record
Bus topology
2. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bridge
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
3. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Recovery CDs
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
External SATA: eSATA
Host adapter
4. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Loop-back plug
Logical Unit Number: LUN
5. 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
Low-level formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
Active partition
6. 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
Computer maintenance
Backplane
Buffer
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
7. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Formatting
Host adapter
Loop-back plug
8. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
The primary partition
Block mode
Byte
9. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
RAID 1
Application layer
Active partition
Read/write head
10. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Application layer
Attention (AT) command set
Byte
11. 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.
Fault tolerance
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 1
12. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Read/write head
Hybrid hard drives
Head
13. 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.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
14. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
80-conductor IDE cable
Autodetection
Fault tolerance
SCSI host adapter card
15. The one bootable partition.
80-conductor IDE cable
FAT12
File Allocation Table: FAT
Active partition
16. 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.
Bit rate
Copy backup
Byte
File Allocation Table: FAT
17. 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?
Recovery CDs
Last worked
File Allocation Table: FAT
RAID 5
18. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bridge
Computer maintenance
19. POST means __________________.
AppleTalk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Spanning
Power-On Self-Test
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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Fault tolerance
Hybrid hard drives
File system
21. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Formatting
RAID 1
Recovery CDs
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
22. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Category 5
Power-On Self-Test
Spanning
23. 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:
Drive image
Bus
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Soft boot
24. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Hot-swapping
Active partition
SCSI ID
RAID 5
25. 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.
Drive image
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
26. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
External SATA: eSATA
Cache
SCSI ID
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
27. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Power-On Self-Test
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 1
28. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
ROM BIOS program
Loop-back plug
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Application layer
29. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Terminating resistor
The electrical system
Access Control List (ACL)
30. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Active partition
Host adapter
ReadyDrive
Whenever changes are made
31. 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.
C: drive
Loop-back plug
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
AppleTalk
32. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
File system
Automatic
Hard boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
33. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Host adapter
Bit rate
Category 5
34. 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.
Basic disk
Recovery
The primary partition
Booting
35. 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?
80-conductor IDE cable
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Brownout
The electrical system
36. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Backplane
RAID 0
Active partition
37. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
External SATA: eSATA
Last worked
Head
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
38. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Spanning
Head
New Technology file system: NTFS
39. 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.
Category 5
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
RAID 5
The primary partition
40. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Spanning
Solid State Device: SSD
Asymmetric encryption
Bridge
41. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Copy backup
POST
Automatic
42. 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.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
High-level formatting
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Category 5
43. 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
RAID 0
Recovery
Whenever changes are made
Low-level formatting
44. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
File system
Copy backup
45. 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
Automatic
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Block mode
46. 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
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Formatting
Backplane
47. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Simple volume
AppleTalk
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
48. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
ROM BIOS program
CHKDSK
Cable
49. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Spanning
POST
Bootable disk
SCSI ID
50. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
The electrical system
Cable tie
Bootable disk
Recovery