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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. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Magnetic hard drive
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
2. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Recovery CDs
FAT12
High-level formatting
3. The one bootable partition.
Beep codes
Boot sequence
CHKDSK
Active partition
4. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
ReadyDrive
5. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
CHKDSK
File system
Byte
6. 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
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Computer maintenance
SCSI host adapter card
7. 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?
Hot-swapping
The electrical system
SCSI host adapter card
High-level formatting
8. 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
Boot sequence
Buffer
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Hot-swapping
9. 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:
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Low-level formatting
Bus topology
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
10. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Recovery
Bus
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Basic disk
11. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Byte
Copy backup
Cable tie
Boot sequence
12. 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
Active partition
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Post Diagnostic
13. 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
ROM BIOS program
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
RAID 0
ActiveX
14. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Autodetection
Terminating resistor
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Cluster
15. 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.
Cable tie
File system
Bus topology
POST
16. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Copy backup
SCSI ID
Cable
Loop-back plug
17. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
FAT12
Boot record
Application layer
Loop-back plug
18. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Active partition
Hard boot
Block mode
Solid State Device: SSD
19. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Bridge
Bus
20. 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.
Bridge
Computer maintenance
AppleTalk
Asymmetric encryption
21. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Solid State Device: SSD
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Autodetection
Beep codes
22. 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
Basic disk
C: drive
Hot-swapping
RAID 0
23. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Hybrid hard drives
Beep codes
24. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Access Control List (ACL)
Formatting
25. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Whenever changes are made
Automatic
26. 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?
C: drive
Simple volume
Last worked
CMOS/BIOS
27. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Fault tolerance
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Magnetic hard drive
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.
Brownout
FAT12
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Cluster
29. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Direct Memory Access: DMA
ROM BIOS program
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
30. 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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
The primary partition
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Hot-swapping
31. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
SCSI ID
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
32. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Bus
Active partition
Cold boot
33. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Category 5
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Solid State Device: SSD
34. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Cable
Read/write head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
35. 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.
The electrical system
Recovery
Magnetic hard drive
Byte
36. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Hybrid hard drives
Cache
Spanning
Backplane
37. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Host adapter
Cold boot
Simple volume
38. 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.
Cable tie
Booting
Bit rate
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
39. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Power-On Self-Test
Hard boot
Buffer
Cable
40. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Spanning
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Booting
41. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
The primary partition
Attention (AT) command set
42. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Formatting
Hard boot
Backplane
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
43. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
RAID 5
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Recovery CDs
44. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
File Allocation Table: FAT
SCSI host adapter card
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Spanning
45. 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.
Boot record
Beep codes
Nonvolatile Memory
Head
46. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
POST
The electrical system
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
CHKDSK
47. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Automatic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
48. 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
Extended partition
Soft boot
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
49. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
External SATA: eSATA
ActiveX
Computer maintenance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
50. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Drive image
Attention (AT) command set
Bus topology
Magnetic hard drive