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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. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Terminating resistor
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
CMOS/BIOS
2. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
SCSI ID
ActiveX
Adapter card
POST
3. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
RAID 1
Access Control List (ACL)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
4. Temporary drop in AC power.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Brownout
Recovery
5. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
CMOS/BIOS
Extended partition
Spanning
Buffer
6. 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
Bus
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
7. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
80-conductor IDE cable
Post Diagnostic
Booting
External SATA: eSATA
8. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Last worked
AppleTalk
Backplane
C: drive
9. 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
Application layer
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Adapter card
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
10. 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.
Extended partition
Solid State Device: SSD
Backward compatible
Boot record
11. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
ReadyDrive
Recovery
Cache
Bus
12. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
Backplane
Post Diagnostic
13. 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.
Cache
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Booting
POST
14. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Cache
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Copy backup
Bit rate
15. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
C: drive
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
16. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Nonvolatile Memory
Cluster
Buffer
17. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Backward compatible
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Bootable disk
18. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Cold boot
Head
Whenever changes are made
19. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Asymmetric encryption
Host adapter
Application Programming Interface (API)
Autodetection
20. 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.
Extended partition
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Byte
Brownout
21. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
SCSI host adapter card
Backward compatible
High-level formatting
22. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Terminating resistor
File system
Byte
Beep codes
23. 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
Byte
SCSI ID
Logical Unit Number: LUN
24. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
RAID 1
Asymmetric encryption
Drive image
Category 5
25. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
The primary partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Basic disk
26. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Last worked
FAT12
27. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Application Programming Interface (API)
28. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Recovery
Byte
Bus
29. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
File system
Bus topology
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
80-conductor IDE cable
30. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Cache
Backward compatible
Access Control List (ACL)
31. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Loop-back plug
Terminating resistor
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
32. 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
Adapter card
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
33. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
RAID 5
Recovery
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
34. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
The primary partition
Boot record
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
35. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 5
Cache
Category 5
36. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
POST
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
Cold boot
37. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Bit rate
Bus
AppleTalk
RAID 0
38. Another name for the primary volume.
Read/write head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
The primary partition
Simple volume
39. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Nonvolatile Memory
Adapter card
Automatic
Basic disk
40. Method for encrypting data on a network. Uses a private key for writing messages and a public key to decode the messages. Only the private key needs to be kept secret. Public keys can be distributed openly.
Adapter card
Terminating resistor
High-level formatting
Asymmetric encryption
41. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Buffer
ROM BIOS program
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
42. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
High-level formatting
AppleTalk
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Computer maintenance
43. 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.
Autodetection
Low-level formatting
RAID 1
Formatting
44. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Recovery CDs
Byte
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Hard boot
45. 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.
C: drive
Host adapter
Byte
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
46. Network with each computer
80-conductor IDE cable
Read/write head
Bus topology
Cluster
47. 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?
Recovery
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Access Control List (ACL)
Last worked
48. 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:
Active partition
Cable tie
Host adapter
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
49. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Post Diagnostic
ReadyDrive
Computer Preventive Maintenance
C: drive
50. 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.
Computer maintenance
Bridge
Byte
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI