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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. 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
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Soft boot
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Cluster
2. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Bus topology
Access Control List (ACL)
Post Diagnostic
FAT12
3. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
High-level formatting
Simple volume
Attention (AT) command set
Copy backup
4. 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.
Cluster
Cable
Hard boot
Backward compatible
5. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Head
Bridge
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
6. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Computer maintenance
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Backplane
7. 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
External SATA: eSATA
Cable tie
C: drive
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
8. Temporary drop in AC power.
AppleTalk
External SATA: eSATA
Recovery
Brownout
9. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
10. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Backward compatible
Recovery
Cluster
Beep codes
11. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Solid State Device: SSD
Post Diagnostic
Hybrid hard drives
Bus topology
12. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Simple volume
ReadyDrive
CMOS/BIOS
Block mode
13. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Whenever changes are made
Simple volume
Access Control List (ACL)
14. 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
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bootable disk
Beep codes
15. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Host adapter
Spanning
Brownout
16. 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.
ActiveX
Recovery CDs
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Booting
17. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Spanning
Whenever changes are made
The primary partition
Read/write head
18. The one bootable partition.
FAT12
C: drive
Low-level formatting
Active partition
19. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
The primary partition
RAID 1
20. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Boot sequence
Low-level formatting
Active partition
Bridge
21. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bridge
Adapter card
Basic disk
22. 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.
Brownout
RAID 5
Soft boot
ActiveX
23. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
RAID 1
Nonvolatile Memory
Block mode
24. 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.
Autodetection
Byte
Terminating resistor
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
25. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Bootable disk
Computer maintenance
Bus
Category 5
26. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Backward compatible
Automatic
Access Control List (ACL)
80-conductor IDE cable
27. POST means __________________.
Soft boot
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Power-On Self-Test
Extended partition
28. Method for encrypting data on a network. Uses a private key for writing messages and a public key to decode the messages. Only the private key needs to be kept secret. Public keys can be distributed openly.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Attention (AT) command set
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Asymmetric encryption
29. 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?
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Power-On Self-Test
Head
Last worked
30. 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.
Boot record
High-level formatting
Backward compatible
Nonvolatile Memory
31. 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:
Loop-back plug
Copy backup
Drive image
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
32. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Bus
Last worked
CHKDSK
33. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Loop-back plug
Hot-swapping
Brownout
New Technology file system: NTFS
34. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Category 5
Block mode
Recovery CDs
35. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Boot sequence
Access Control List (ACL)
Head
36. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Buffer
Computer maintenance
Cable tie
37. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Simple volume
RAID 5
Formatting
38. 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
Formatting
C: drive
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Adapter card
39. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Loop-back plug
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
SCSI host adapter card
40. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
SCSI host adapter card
Loop-back plug
41. 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.
Cold boot
High-level formatting
Extended partition
Post Diagnostic
42. 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
SCSI host adapter card
New Technology file system: NTFS
Drive image
Brownout
43. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Brownout
File Allocation Table: FAT
44. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bus
Autodetection
Brownout
45. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Low-level formatting
SCSI ID
46. 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.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Fault tolerance
RAID 0
Boot record
47. 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.
Host adapter
Low-level formatting
Asymmetric encryption
SCSI ID
48. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Power-On Self-Test
RAID 5
Access Control List (ACL)
External SATA: eSATA
49. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
The electrical system
Hard boot
Copy backup
CMOS/BIOS
50. 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.
FAT12
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Application Programming Interface (API)
Recovery