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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. 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
Head
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
CMOS/BIOS
2. 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.
C: drive
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Low-level formatting
Hot-swapping
3. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Application layer
Post Diagnostic
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
RAID 5
4. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Loop-back plug
Read/write head
File Allocation Table: FAT
Cluster
5. 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?
The electrical system
New Technology file system: NTFS
Hot-swapping
Extended partition
6. 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
Whenever changes are made
Recovery
Magnetic hard drive
RAID 1
7. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Nonvolatile Memory
Solid State Device: SSD
Bus
8. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Host adapter
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Soft boot
Recovery
9. 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
Basic disk
Autodetection
10. To power up a computer from the off position.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cold boot
CMOS/BIOS
11. 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.
RAID 1
Copy backup
File Allocation Table: FAT
FAT12
12. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Magnetic hard drive
Computer maintenance
Hot-swapping
Extended partition
13. Network with each computer
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Bus topology
Backplane
Brownout
14. 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
Copy backup
Buffer
Bit rate
Head
15. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
POST
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Whenever changes are made
Block mode
16. 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.
Cluster
Soft boot
C: drive
Whenever changes are made
17. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
ReadyDrive
Solid State Device: SSD
Loop-back plug
Formatting
18. 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.
High-level formatting
CHKDSK
Bus topology
Hard boot
19. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Active partition
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bootable disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
20. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cold boot
Hot-swapping
C: drive
21. 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
Cable
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Fault tolerance
Bit rate
22. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Extended partition
Beep codes
Recovery CDs
23. 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.
RAID 1
Extended partition
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
24. 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.
Autodetection
ActiveX
ReadyDrive
Bus
25. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Recovery
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
26. 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
Loop-back plug
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
SCSI host adapter card
Last worked
27. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cache
28. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Basic disk
File Allocation Table: FAT
RAID 5
29. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Hybrid hard drives
Formatting
Access Control List (ACL)
30. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Power-On Self-Test
Cold boot
Loop-back plug
CHKDSK
31. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Buffer
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Cable
32. 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
Byte
Recovery
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Terminating resistor
33. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Adapter card
Low-level formatting
CMOS/BIOS
34. 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?
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Last worked
Backplane
Head
35. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Terminating resistor
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Drive image
36. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Automatic
Attention (AT) command set
ReadyDrive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
37. 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.
Active partition
The primary partition
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
RAID 0
38. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Head
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Whenever changes are made
39. 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:
New Technology file system: NTFS
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
SCSI ID
40. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Loop-back plug
Application Programming Interface (API)
Spanning
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
41. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Computer maintenance
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
RAID 1
42. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Nonvolatile Memory
Application Programming Interface (API)
80-conductor IDE cable
Power-On Self-Test
43. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Terminating resistor
Head
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
44. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Cold boot
Buffer
Application Programming Interface (API)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
45. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
ActiveX
RAID 1
Cable
Copy backup
46. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Whenever changes are made
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Cluster
External SATA: eSATA
47. Another name for the primary volume.
Simple volume
CHKDSK
Last worked
Post Diagnostic
48. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Attention (AT) command set
Bridge
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Loop-back plug
49. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Bus topology
CMOS/BIOS
Bridge
Active partition
50. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
AppleTalk
Brownout
80-conductor IDE cable