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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. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Hard boot
Attention (AT) command set
Logical Unit Number: LUN
2. 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
Whenever changes are made
External SATA: eSATA
Cable tie
SCSI host adapter card
3. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Low-level formatting
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
4. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Terminating resistor
Cluster
Asymmetric encryption
Category 5
5. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
File system
Boot sequence
FAT12
Soft boot
6. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
New Technology file system: NTFS
External SATA: eSATA
Recovery CDs
7. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Terminating resistor
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Beep codes
8. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Backward compatible
SCSI ID
Active partition
Head
9. 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.
Boot record
Terminating resistor
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Fault tolerance
10. 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.
Drive image
ActiveX
POST
Solid State Device: SSD
11. 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.
FAT12
Hot-swapping
C: drive
New Technology file system: NTFS
12. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Cable
CHKDSK
File system
ActiveX
13. 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
Hybrid hard drives
Application layer
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
14. 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?
Active partition
RAID 0
Formatting
Last worked
15. 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
80-conductor IDE cable
Hard boot
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Recovery CDs
16. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
File system
Adapter card
Formatting
17. 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.
Low-level formatting
Loop-back plug
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
The electrical system
18. 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.
Boot record
POST
Brownout
Asymmetric encryption
19. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
File system
Basic disk
Magnetic hard drive
Cable
20. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
High-level formatting
Bridge
Cache
21. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Buffer
Bit rate
Attention (AT) command set
22. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Simple volume
Spanning
Brownout
ReadyDrive
23. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Computer maintenance
Buffer
Hybrid hard drives
Application Programming Interface (API)
24. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
The electrical system
CMOS/BIOS
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Recovery
25. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Access Control List (ACL)
Basic disk
The electrical system
26. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Cable tie
Whenever changes are made
Category 5
27. 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
Basic disk
Application layer
Boot record
Boot sequence
28. 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.
Category 5
Last worked
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
29. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
CMOS/BIOS
File Allocation Table: FAT
Hard boot
30. Network with each computer
Access Control List (ACL)
Bus topology
Cold boot
Simple volume
31. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Nonvolatile Memory
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
80-conductor IDE cable
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
32. To power up a computer from the off position.
Computer maintenance
Cold boot
Beep codes
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
33. 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.
Category 5
Bit rate
Booting
C: drive
34. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Boot record
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
RAID 5
35. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Extended partition
ReadyDrive
Bit rate
36. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Solid State Device: SSD
Nonvolatile Memory
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
37. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Hot-swapping
The primary partition
Terminating resistor
Bus topology
38. 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
AppleTalk
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Extended partition
39. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Solid State Device: SSD
RAID 1
Cable
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
40. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Nonvolatile Memory
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Block mode
Brownout
41. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
FAT12
Cluster
RAID 5
Hybrid hard drives
42. 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.
Extended partition
Bridge
Backward compatible
Direct Memory Access: DMA
43. 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.
POST
AppleTalk
Low-level formatting
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
44. 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
File system
Copy backup
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
45. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Cable
Bootable disk
Bus topology
46. 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.
Adapter card
Host adapter
ROM BIOS program
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
47. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Low-level formatting
Bootable disk
48. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Hybrid hard drives
Soft boot
80-conductor IDE cable
49. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Boot record
Cable tie
Bus
50. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Cable
Low-level formatting
Beep codes