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1. 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.
Computer maintenance
Backward compatible
Cable
Basic disk
2. 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.
AppleTalk
Computer maintenance
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
The electrical system
3. 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.
Byte
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
ActiveX
4. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Asymmetric encryption
ReadyDrive
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
5. 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.
Booting
Backward compatible
Attention (AT) command set
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
6. 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.
The primary partition
Soft boot
Low-level formatting
Application Programming Interface (API)
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
High-level formatting
Bootable disk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
8. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Spanning
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Terminating resistor
9. 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
Hot-swapping
SCSI host adapter card
Application layer
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
10. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Hard boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Backplane
11. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
External SATA: eSATA
Post Diagnostic
Active partition
12. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Cache
External SATA: eSATA
Boot sequence
13. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cable tie
Booting
New Technology file system: NTFS
14. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Hot-swapping
Formatting
Read/write head
Computer Preventive Maintenance
15. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Application Programming Interface (API)
FAT12
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
16. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Backplane
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
17. 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
Byte
Bootable disk
RAID 0
Fault tolerance
18. 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
Bit rate
Terminating resistor
File system
Booting
19. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Computer Preventive Maintenance
CMOS/BIOS
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
20. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Whenever changes are made
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Extended partition
21. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Byte
Extended partition
The electrical system
Whenever changes are made
22. 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
New Technology file system: NTFS
Magnetic hard drive
Host adapter
SCSI ID
23. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Fault tolerance
Bootable disk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
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.
Byte
ReadyDrive
Terminating resistor
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
25. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
The primary partition
Recovery CDs
26. 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:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Copy backup
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Soft boot
27. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Bus topology
File system
Cable
Solid State Device: SSD
28. 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.
Low-level formatting
Bus topology
FAT12
Last worked
29. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
POST
SCSI ID
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
30. 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.
Computer maintenance
Asymmetric encryption
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
31. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hot-swapping
Block mode
Cable
32. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
High-level formatting
Loop-back plug
Drive image
Basic disk
33. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Soft boot
Cable tie
Post Diagnostic
34. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Cable tie
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Spanning
Application layer
35. The one bootable partition.
RAID 0
Cable
RAID 1
Active partition
36. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Application layer
Simple volume
ReadyDrive
Hybrid hard drives
37. 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
Byte
Bit rate
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
ROM BIOS program
38. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Loop-back plug
CHKDSK
Cable
39. 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
Last worked
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Bootable disk
Application layer
40. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Last worked
Application Programming Interface (API)
Brownout
CMOS/BIOS
41. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Asymmetric encryption
New Technology file system: NTFS
External SATA: eSATA
42. 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
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
RAID 0
Basic disk
43. 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
Block mode
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Buffer
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
44. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Head
SCSI ID
Cable
Computer maintenance
45. 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
Magnetic hard drive
The primary partition
80-conductor IDE cable
46. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
Terminating resistor
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bus
47. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Whenever changes are made
POST
Asymmetric encryption
48. 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.
High-level formatting
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Simple volume
AppleTalk
49. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cable tie
Active partition
50. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
ActiveX
The electrical system
Recovery CDs
Simple volume