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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.






7. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






8. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






9. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






10. 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.






11. 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






12. To power up a computer from the off position.






13. 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






14. 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.






15. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






16. 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






17. This tool can be used to test a USB port.






18. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.






19. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






20. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






21. 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.






22. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.






23. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






24. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.






25. 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






26. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.






27. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






28. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






29. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






30. 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.






31. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






32. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






33. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






34. 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.






35. 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:






36. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






37. 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.






38. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






42. The one bootable partition.






43. 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






44. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.






45. Another name for the primary volume.






46. 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






47. Formatting performed by means of the DOS or Windows Format program (for example - FORMAT C:/S creates the boot record - FAT - and root directory on drive C and makes the drive bootable). Also called OS formatting.






48. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






49. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.






50. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.