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Computer Repair
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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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1. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
File system
Formatting
New Technology file system: NTFS
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
2. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Active partition
New Technology file system: NTFS
Application layer
3. 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.
Block mode
SCSI host adapter card
Byte
POST
4. 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
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 1
5. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Cluster
Automatic
RAID 1
Hybrid hard drives
6. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Bus
80-conductor IDE cable
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
RAID 1
7. 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.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Bootable disk
RAID 5
ActiveX
8. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
POST
Soft boot
Application Programming Interface (API)
9. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Brownout
Bit rate
Solid State Device: SSD
10. 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
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
SCSI host adapter card
RAID 0
Active partition
11. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Booting
Boot sequence
Host adapter
Cable tie
12. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Loop-back plug
Active partition
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
13. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Extended partition
Read/write head
14. One or more sectors that constitute the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing data (also referred to as a file allocation unit). Files are written to a disk as groups of whole clusters.
Bus
Recovery
Cluster
Nonvolatile Memory
15. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
File Allocation Table: FAT
Read/write head
Recovery CDs
Power-On Self-Test
16. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Low-level formatting
CHKDSK
CMOS/BIOS
17. 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
CHKDSK
Bridge
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
CMOS/BIOS
18. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Whenever changes are made
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
19. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Bootable disk
Formatting
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
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.
Boot sequence
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hybrid hard drives
Last worked
21. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Loop-back plug
22. 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 Diagnostic
POST
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Cable
23. 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?
External SATA: eSATA
File system
Soft boot
Last worked
24. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Recovery
80-conductor IDE cable
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
SCSI ID
25. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Asymmetric encryption
Head
Application layer
26. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Cable
Cold boot
Loop-back plug
27. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Beep codes
FAT12
Nonvolatile Memory
Application layer
28. 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.
SCSI ID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
AppleTalk
Simple volume
29. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Bit rate
Booting
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Magnetic hard drive
30. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Whenever changes are made
31. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
SCSI ID
Bridge
Asymmetric encryption
32. 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.
Bootable disk
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
The primary partition
Simple volume
33. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Booting
Recovery CDs
Attention (AT) command set
34. Temporary drop in AC power.
80-conductor IDE cable
Backward compatible
Brownout
RAID 5
35. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
External SATA: eSATA
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 1
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
36. 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
ReadyDrive
SCSI ID
Computer Preventive Maintenance
37. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
The electrical system
ActiveX
Category 5
Drive image
38. The one bootable partition.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Active partition
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
39. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cache
Backward compatible
Brownout
40. 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.
Booting
High-level formatting
Host adapter
Whenever changes are made
41. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Buffer
File Allocation Table: FAT
Cable
Spanning
42. 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.
FAT12
The electrical system
Brownout
Spanning
43. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Cluster
Last worked
Post Diagnostic
Computer Preventive Maintenance
44. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Bridge
CHKDSK
Computer maintenance
Read/write head
45. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Boot record
Terminating resistor
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Post Diagnostic
46. 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.
The primary partition
Asymmetric encryption
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
High-level formatting
47. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Whenever changes are made
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Autodetection
48. 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
Low-level formatting
Boot sequence
CHKDSK
File system
49. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Cluster
Nonvolatile Memory
Last worked
Solid State Device: SSD
50. 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.
RAID 1
Whenever changes are made
Booting
Access Control List (ACL)