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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. 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.
Bootable disk
Bus
External SATA: eSATA
POST
2. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hot-swapping
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hard boot
Active partition
3. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Block mode
Backplane
File Allocation Table: FAT
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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Asymmetric encryption
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
5. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
The primary partition
Attention (AT) command set
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Block mode
6. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
SCSI host adapter card
Autodetection
CMOS/BIOS
Adapter card
7. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Terminating resistor
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Copy backup
8. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Post Diagnostic
Cluster
9. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Simple volume
Post Diagnostic
10. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
RAID 0
Bus
Attention (AT) command set
Bit rate
11. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Buffer
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Attention (AT) command set
12. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Low-level formatting
Buffer
CMOS/BIOS
Byte
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.
Boot sequence
RAID 5
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
14. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Drive image
Hot-swapping
Automatic
Terminating resistor
15. 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.
Cold boot
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
High-level formatting
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
16. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Beep codes
Logical Unit Number: LUN
External SATA: eSATA
Backward compatible
17. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Soft boot
Head
Application Programming Interface (API)
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
18. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Simple volume
Hybrid hard drives
File system
Cable
19. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Loop-back plug
Spanning
Soft boot
Booting
20. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Attention (AT) command set
Adapter card
Cable tie
The primary partition
21. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Autodetection
Copy backup
Computer Preventive Maintenance
22. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Beep codes
Buffer
External SATA: eSATA
23. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Hot-swapping
RAID 1
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Access Control List (ACL)
24. A number assigned to a logical device (such as a tray in a CD changer) that is part of a physical SCSI device - which is assigned a SCSI ID.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cable
FAT12
ROM BIOS program
25. 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
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Spanning
Simple volume
RAID 0
26. 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.
Category 5
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Beep codes
27. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Booting
Asymmetric encryption
Head
28. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Access Control List (ACL)
External SATA: eSATA
29. 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.
Cable
FAT12
RAID 1
Post Diagnostic
30. To power up a computer from the off position.
Access Control List (ACL)
Cold boot
Hybrid hard drives
CMOS/BIOS
31. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Backward compatible
RAID 0
32. 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
Application Programming Interface (API)
Solid State Device: SSD
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application layer
33. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
80-conductor IDE cable
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Access Control List (ACL)
34. 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
Hard boot
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
35. 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.
RAID 5
Brownout
CHKDSK
Category 5
36. 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
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Power-On Self-Test
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Backward compatible
37. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
POST
The electrical system
38. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
File system
Simple volume
Byte
39. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Bus topology
Cable
Backward compatible
SCSI ID
40. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
ActiveX
Solid State Device: SSD
Read/write head
Logical Unit Number: LUN
41. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Recovery
Asymmetric encryption
Formatting
42. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Cable tie
Backward compatible
Loop-back plug
CMOS/BIOS
43. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Terminating resistor
Backplane
Bus topology
44. 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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
Loop-back plug
45. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
ActiveX
Drive image
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Recovery CDs
46. 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.
Bus topology
AppleTalk
C: drive
SCSI host adapter card
47. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Fault tolerance
Buffer
Category 5
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
48. 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:
Cache
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Terminating resistor
49. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Cable tie
Asymmetric encryption
Cache
50. 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.
RAID 1
Read/write head
ROM BIOS program
Whenever changes are made