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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. 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
Soft boot
New Technology file system: NTFS
Loop-back plug
2. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
CHKDSK
Power-On Self-Test
Loop-back plug
3. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Application layer
High-level formatting
Copy backup
4. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
The primary partition
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Nonvolatile Memory
5. 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
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Application layer
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
High-level formatting
6. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Computer maintenance
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cold boot
7. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Hard boot
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Loop-back plug
CMOS/BIOS
8. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
Bus topology
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Application layer
9. 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.
Copy backup
Backward compatible
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Terminating resistor
10. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
CMOS/BIOS
Cable tie
Host adapter
11. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Cache
Access Control List (ACL)
Backplane
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
12. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Bus topology
Power-On Self-Test
Cable tie
Hard boot
13. 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.
ActiveX
Attention (AT) command set
SCSI ID
Hybrid hard drives
14. The one bootable partition.
The electrical system
Terminating resistor
Asymmetric encryption
Active partition
15. 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.
External SATA: eSATA
RAID 5
Basic disk
The primary partition
16. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Beep codes
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Read/write head
17. Temporary drop in AC power.
The primary partition
Brownout
Extended partition
Magnetic hard drive
18. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Whenever changes are made
Loop-back plug
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
POST
19. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Fault tolerance
Block mode
20. Network with each computer
Post Diagnostic
Active partition
Bus topology
Buffer
21. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Solid State Device: SSD
CHKDSK
ReadyDrive
Cable
22. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Attention (AT) command set
80-conductor IDE cable
Access Control List (ACL)
23. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Asymmetric encryption
Terminating resistor
Bootable disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
24. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
Asymmetric encryption
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bus
25. 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.
Cold boot
Post Diagnostic
Bus
Brownout
26. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
AppleTalk
SCSI ID
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Head
27. 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
RAID 5
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Application layer
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
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.
Extended partition
Cable
Cluster
FAT12
29. When troubleshooting a failed boot - if you do not see any lights or hear any noises - what hardware system do you first assume is at fault?
Fault tolerance
Automatic
The electrical system
Computer Preventive Maintenance
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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Host adapter
Backplane
31. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Backplane
Autodetection
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Attention (AT) command set
32. 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
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Boot record
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.
Boot sequence
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Booting
Bridge
34. 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
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
35. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Host adapter
Cache
Category 5
Formatting
36. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Automatic
The primary partition
CHKDSK
37. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Block mode
RAID 0
Whenever changes are made
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
38. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Asymmetric encryption
Recovery
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
C: drive
39. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Backplane
Head
Boot sequence
ActiveX
40. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Autodetection
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Last worked
File Allocation Table: FAT
41. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Automatic
ROM BIOS program
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
42. The circuit board that controls a SCSI bus supporting as many as seven or fifteen separate devices. This device controls communication between the SCSI bus and the PC.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Power-On Self-Test
Soft boot
Host adapter
43. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Hard boot
Computer maintenance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
44. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Backward compatible
Last worked
Formatting
Loop-back plug
45. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Byte
Buffer
Hybrid hard drives
46. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Power-On Self-Test
AppleTalk
Cable tie
47. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hybrid hard drives
Byte
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Attention (AT) command set
48. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Solid State Device: SSD
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Recovery CDs
Autodetection
49. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Cluster
Block mode
Soft boot
Logical Unit Number: LUN
50. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Byte
Computer maintenance
Computer Preventive Maintenance
The primary partition