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1. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
CMOS/BIOS
Application Programming Interface (API)
Copy backup
2. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
The primary partition
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Boot sequence
Cable
3. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Backward compatible
Drive image
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
80-conductor IDE cable
4. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
80-conductor IDE cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
5. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Bit rate
Buffer
The primary partition
CMOS/BIOS
6. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Access Control List (ACL)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Whenever changes are made
New Technology file system: NTFS
7. 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
Application layer
Bit rate
File system
Cable tie
8. 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
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Copy backup
External SATA: eSATA
9. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
SCSI ID
CMOS/BIOS
Active partition
Head
10. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Recovery CDs
Category 5
Drive image
Basic disk
11. 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.
The primary partition
File system
POST
Byte
12. The one bootable partition.
Read/write head
Last worked
Active partition
Drive image
13. 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.
Recovery
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
C: drive
14. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Booting
Whenever changes are made
Computer maintenance
15. 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.
FAT12
Bridge
RAID 0
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
16. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Recovery CDs
The primary partition
The electrical system
17. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
POST
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Hot-swapping
18. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Fault tolerance
Adapter card
Soft boot
RAID 0
19. POST means __________________.
Hybrid hard drives
Access Control List (ACL)
Power-On Self-Test
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
20. Another name for the primary volume.
Boot record
Terminating resistor
Simple volume
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
21. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
New Technology file system: NTFS
ReadyDrive
Category 5
Cluster
22. Temporary drop in AC power.
Solid State Device: SSD
Terminating resistor
CMOS/BIOS
Brownout
23. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
The primary partition
SCSI ID
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Cable tie
24. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Head
Hybrid hard drives
Bootable disk
High-level formatting
25. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
The electrical system
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Bus topology
26. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Basic disk
Block mode
Application Programming Interface (API)
ROM BIOS program
27. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Fault tolerance
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Basic disk
Loop-back plug
28. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Category 5
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Beep codes
Whenever changes are made
29. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Buffer
Last worked
C: drive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
30. 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
AppleTalk
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
External SATA: eSATA
CMOS/BIOS
31. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
ROM BIOS program
Read/write head
Cable
32. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Application Programming Interface (API)
Boot record
Cable
33. 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.
Fault tolerance
Cluster
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Low-level formatting
34. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
External SATA: eSATA
Hybrid hard drives
35. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Loop-back plug
Application Programming Interface (API)
Recovery
ActiveX
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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application layer
Bootable disk
FAT12
37. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Bit rate
High-level formatting
Loop-back plug
38. 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.
Backward compatible
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cluster
Cold boot
39. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bootable disk
Computer maintenance
40. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Post Diagnostic
Terminating resistor
High-level formatting
41. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cluster
Cable
42. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Cable tie
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
RAID 0
Nonvolatile Memory
43. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
POST
New Technology file system: NTFS
Block mode
44. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
ActiveX
Terminating resistor
Cache
Boot record
45. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Cable tie
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
File Allocation Table: FAT
46. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Computer maintenance
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
ActiveX
47. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Low-level formatting
Backward compatible
Backplane
Application layer
48. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Boot record
C: drive
49. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Brownout
Direct Memory Access: DMA
The electrical system
50. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Whenever changes are made
ActiveX
Hybrid hard drives
CHKDSK
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