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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. 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:
New Technology file system: NTFS
The electrical system
File system
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
2. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Computer maintenance
Read/write head
Nonvolatile Memory
Whenever changes are made
3. 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.
Beep codes
Boot sequence
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
ActiveX
4. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
CHKDSK
Recovery CDs
Byte
CMOS/BIOS
5. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Hard boot
File system
Category 5
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
6. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Recovery CDs
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
FAT12
7. 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.
POST
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
High-level formatting
Category 5
8. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Bit rate
Boot sequence
AppleTalk
POST
9. Network with each computer
Loop-back plug
RAID 0
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bus topology
10. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Booting
The electrical system
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
11. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Booting
ReadyDrive
Hot-swapping
12. 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
New Technology file system: NTFS
Backplane
RAID 0
80-conductor IDE cable
13. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Drive image
New Technology file system: NTFS
Nonvolatile Memory
Spanning
14. 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.
Backward compatible
Boot sequence
Backplane
AppleTalk
15. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Recovery
CHKDSK
Hybrid hard drives
Last worked
16. 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 topology
80-conductor IDE cable
Loop-back plug
Backplane
17. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Solid State Device: SSD
Backplane
Beep codes
18. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Hot-swapping
Power-On Self-Test
External SATA: eSATA
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
19. 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.
Cache
Byte
ROM BIOS program
SCSI ID
20. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Formatting
Simple volume
Recovery CDs
21. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Bus topology
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Head
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
22. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
The primary partition
Extended partition
Buffer
23. 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.
Beep codes
Bit rate
Simple volume
Byte
24. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Bus
Whenever changes are made
Cable
Soft boot
25. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Booting
High-level formatting
ReadyDrive
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
26. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
CHKDSK
Cable tie
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Basic disk
27. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Boot record
Drive image
New Technology file system: NTFS
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
28. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Beep codes
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
POST
29. 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
The electrical system
Hard boot
Buffer
Category 5
30. 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
Drive image
Cable tie
POST
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
31. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Solid State Device: SSD
Block mode
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Spanning
32. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Direct Memory Access: DMA
The primary partition
FAT12
33. 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
SCSI host adapter card
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Host adapter
34. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Beep codes
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Asymmetric encryption
35. 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.
Brownout
ReadyDrive
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Direct Memory Access: DMA
36. 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.
POST
Low-level formatting
Beep codes
Cache
37. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Recovery CDs
CMOS/BIOS
Brownout
38. Temporary drop in AC power.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Spanning
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Brownout
39. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Last worked
Formatting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cable
40. To power up a computer from the off position.
Bus
Cold boot
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Backplane
41. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Spanning
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Autodetection
42. 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.
Loop-back plug
Cluster
ROM BIOS program
Beep codes
43. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
ActiveX
Formatting
External SATA: eSATA
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
44. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
FAT12
Soft boot
Block mode
Hot-swapping
45. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Access Control List (ACL)
Fault tolerance
Post Diagnostic
46. 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
Power-On Self-Test
SCSI host adapter card
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Recovery
47. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
CHKDSK
Fault tolerance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Beep codes
48. Another name for the primary volume.
Active partition
SCSI ID
Power-On Self-Test
Simple volume
49. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Buffer
ActiveX
Whenever changes are made
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
50. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
ROM BIOS program
Application layer
Last worked