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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.
Booting
ROM BIOS program
Automatic
Computer Preventive Maintenance
2. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Hot-swapping
3. 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
Basic disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
CMOS/BIOS
4. 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
Hard boot
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
The electrical system
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
5. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
AppleTalk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
File system
Spanning
6. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
Adapter card
Drive image
Loop-back plug
7. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
8. 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.
Loop-back plug
Backplane
Application layer
Extended partition
9. 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
New Technology file system: NTFS
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
10. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
POST
Formatting
RAID 0
Backward compatible
11. 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.
Backplane
Cache
Boot record
Solid State Device: SSD
12. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Bus
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
13. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
CMOS/BIOS
RAID 1
Cluster
14. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Host adapter
Soft boot
Hybrid hard drives
Whenever changes are made
15. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Loop-back plug
Read/write head
Fault tolerance
16. 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.
SCSI ID
Cluster
ActiveX
Recovery CDs
17. 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
ReadyDrive
Block mode
Application layer
ActiveX
18. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
CMOS/BIOS
Bit rate
Spanning
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
19. Temporary drop in AC power.
File Allocation Table: FAT
CMOS/BIOS
Bootable disk
Brownout
20. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Backward compatible
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Application Programming Interface (API)
External SATA: eSATA
21. 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.
Block mode
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Soft boot
22. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Application layer
23. 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
Magnetic hard drive
POST
Attention (AT) command set
RAID 1
24. 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
Terminating resistor
Solid State Device: SSD
Bit rate
RAID 0
25. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
C: drive
Recovery CDs
Hybrid hard drives
Loop-back plug
26. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Copy backup
Cable
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
27. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Soft boot
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
28. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Head
Computer maintenance
29. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Bus topology
Spanning
RAID 1
Nonvolatile Memory
30. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Hard boot
Category 5
CHKDSK
31. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Autodetection
Read/write head
RAID 5
Terminating resistor
32. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Bus topology
Solid State Device: SSD
Post Diagnostic
Backplane
33. 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.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Byte
Bus
Head
34. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
Low-level formatting
35. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Basic disk
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
The primary partition
36. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Bridge
Cluster
ROM BIOS program
37. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
AppleTalk
SCSI ID
Low-level formatting
ActiveX
38. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
SCSI ID
Bus
Cluster
39. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Recovery
Backplane
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
New Technology file system: NTFS
Category 5
Computer Preventive Maintenance
41. 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?
Autodetection
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Last worked
ReadyDrive
42. 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.
Boot record
Last worked
Backward compatible
AppleTalk
43. 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
Application layer
Terminating resistor
ReadyDrive
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
44. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Soft boot
RAID 5
45. 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
Category 5
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Direct Memory Access: DMA
46. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Read/write head
File Allocation Table: FAT
Cable
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
47. 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
Buffer
Formatting
ReadyDrive
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
48. The one bootable partition.
Application layer
Active partition
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
CHKDSK
49. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
File system
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Application Programming Interface (API)
Formatting
50. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Backward compatible
Cluster
CHKDSK