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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Extended partition
Nonvolatile Memory
Solid State Device: SSD
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
2. 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.
Extended partition
Booting
Recovery
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
3. 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?
Last worked
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Recovery CDs
Bit rate
4. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Basic disk
The electrical system
Byte
5. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Backplane
Hybrid hard drives
File system
6. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Block mode
Nonvolatile Memory
Asymmetric encryption
Bridge
7. 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
Bus
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Application layer
Power-On Self-Test
8. 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
RAID 0
80-conductor IDE cable
Asymmetric encryption
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
9. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Cable tie
Head
Loop-back plug
10. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
CHKDSK
File Allocation Table: FAT
Post Diagnostic
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
11. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bit rate
Solid State Device: SSD
Beep codes
12. 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:
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Last worked
RAID 0
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
13. 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.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Boot record
Fault tolerance
RAID 5
14. A drive with one - two - or more platters - or disks that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard. The top and bot
RAID 5
Formatting
Magnetic hard drive
CMOS/BIOS
15. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Drive image
Automatic
CMOS/BIOS
Whenever changes are made
16. 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
Hard boot
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Brownout
Whenever changes are made
17. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Category 5
File Allocation Table: FAT
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
C: drive
18. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Computer maintenance
Recovery
Bus
Direct Memory Access: DMA
19. 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
Cold boot
Hard boot
SCSI host adapter card
20. POST means __________________.
Drive image
Spanning
Basic disk
Power-On Self-Test
21. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
Bit rate
Host adapter
ReadyDrive
22. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Byte
High-level formatting
Copy backup
Solid State Device: SSD
23. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Byte
SCSI ID
Copy backup
Power-On Self-Test
24. Performed from the operating system - such as by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Del or by choosing a Restart option from the Shut Down dialog box. Less stressful on the computer.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
RAID 5
Soft boot
Read/write head
25. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Block mode
Nonvolatile Memory
Read/write head
Basic disk
26. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Nonvolatile Memory
ROM BIOS program
Brownout
Automatic
27. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Extended partition
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bit rate
Hybrid hard drives
28. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Whenever changes are made
Boot sequence
RAID 1
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
29. 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.
Booting
AppleTalk
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Head
30. 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.
Buffer
Last worked
Computer maintenance
Low-level formatting
31. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Simple volume
The electrical system
Basic disk
Hard boot
32. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Brownout
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Beep codes
Nonvolatile Memory
33. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Cache
Attention (AT) command set
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
34. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Terminating resistor
Hybrid hard drives
35. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
POST
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
SCSI host adapter card
Autodetection
36. 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?
Application Programming Interface (API)
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
The electrical system
Byte
37. 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
Asymmetric encryption
Power-On Self-Test
Extended partition
38. 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
Hot-swapping
FAT12
Buffer
C: drive
39. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bootable disk
ROM BIOS program
Loop-back plug
40. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
SCSI host adapter card
Whenever changes are made
Boot sequence
Hot-swapping
41. 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
Cache
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
42. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 1
RAID 5
43. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
External SATA: eSATA
Spanning
Application layer
RAID 5
44. 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.
Bus
Backplane
Brownout
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
45. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Autodetection
Application Programming Interface (API)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Post Diagnostic
46. 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.
Bootable disk
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
47. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
48. 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.
Last worked
SCSI host adapter card
The primary partition
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
49. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
The electrical system
Buffer
Bit rate
50. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Power-On Self-Test
RAID 5
The electrical system
Adapter card