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Computer Repair

Subject : 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. POST means __________________.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Also known as redundant array of independent disks: Technology uses an array of hard drives used to provide fault tolerance and/or improvement in performance.






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






7. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






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






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






10. 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?






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






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






17. 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.






18. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. The one bootable partition.






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. 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:






30. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






31. Temporary drop in AC power.






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. Another name for the primary volume.






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






38. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






44. 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






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






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






47. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






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






49. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






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.