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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






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






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






5. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.






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






12. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.






13. Network with each computer






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






15. This tool can be used to test a USB port.






16. 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






17. Commonly called the host adapter. The host adapter is inserted into an expansion slot on the motherboard and is responsible for managing all devices on the SCSI bus. A host adapter can support both internal and external SCSI devices - using one conne






18. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.






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






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






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






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






23. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.






24. 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.






25. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






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






31. Temporary drop in AC power.






32. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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.






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






39. Another name for the primary volume.






40. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






41. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.






42. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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.






47. POST means __________________.






48. 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?






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






50. 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.