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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
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1. Media through which data is transferred from one part of a computer to another. The bus can be compared to a highway on which data travels within a computer.






2. 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.






3. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






4. 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?






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. 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:






9. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






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






11. 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






12. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.






13. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).






14. To power up a computer from the off position.






15. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






16. Temporary drop in AC power.






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






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






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






20. POST means __________________.






21. 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






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






23. Another name for the primary volume.






24. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






25. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






26. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.






27. 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.






28. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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






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






34. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






35. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






36. 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.






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.






41. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






42. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






43. 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.






44. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.






45. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. Network with each computer






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






50. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.







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