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Subject
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Boot sequence
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
2. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
The electrical system
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
File system
3. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
ReadyDrive
Hard boot
POST
4. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Backplane
Bridge
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
5. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Bus topology
Formatting
Application layer
ReadyDrive
6. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
RAID 0
Terminating resistor
Automatic
Low-level formatting
7. 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.
ReadyDrive
Fault tolerance
CMOS/BIOS
The primary partition
8. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Simple volume
Beep codes
9. 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.
Backward compatible
POST
Cluster
Direct Memory Access: DMA
10. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Recovery
Hot-swapping
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
11. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
CHKDSK
Bridge
Hard boot
12. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Low-level formatting
Bootable disk
Loop-back plug
Hot-swapping
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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Basic disk
Loop-back plug
14. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
ROM BIOS program
Boot sequence
15. The overall structure an OS uses to name - store - and organize files on a drive. In it - a cluster is the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors. A it tracks how these clusters are used for each fil
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
RAID 5
File system
Brownout
16. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hybrid hard drives
Last worked
Cable
Boot record
17. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Cold boot
Computer maintenance
Loop-back plug
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
18. 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.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
SCSI ID
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bus topology
19. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
Bridge
Block mode
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
20. A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe - such as a hardware failure or power outage - so that data is not lost.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Active partition
Application layer
Fault tolerance
21. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
Bridge
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cache
22. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Category 5
CMOS/BIOS
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Whenever changes are made
23. 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.
Boot record
Bus
Spanning
Block mode
24. 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.
Magnetic hard drive
Head
RAID 5
Boot record
25. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Category 5
Direct Memory Access: DMA
High-level formatting
26. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Recovery CDs
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
External SATA: eSATA
Simple volume
27. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Post Diagnostic
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Formatting
Adapter card
28. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
80-conductor IDE cable
RAID 5
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Computer Preventive Maintenance
29. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
SCSI ID
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Computer Preventive Maintenance
30. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
AppleTalk
Application Programming Interface (API)
Hard boot
Asymmetric encryption
31. 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.
Magnetic hard drive
Bootable disk
FAT12
POST
32. 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
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
ActiveX
Buffer
33. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
The primary partition
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Autodetection
34. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
RAID 5
FAT12
35. Another name for the primary volume.
Extended partition
Category 5
Simple volume
Byte
36. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
ReadyDrive
SCSI ID
External SATA: eSATA
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
37. 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
RAID 5
SCSI host adapter card
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Basic disk
38. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
C: drive
High-level formatting
39. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cable tie
Copy backup
Head
40. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Soft boot
CHKDSK
Loop-back plug
Access Control List (ACL)
41. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Loop-back plug
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Post Diagnostic
42. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
CHKDSK
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Formatting
Asymmetric encryption
43. 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
Adapter card
Automatic
SCSI host adapter card
Byte
44. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
AppleTalk
Soft boot
Low-level formatting
45. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Spanning
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Read/write head
46. Network with each computer
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Brownout
RAID 1
Bus topology
47. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Adapter card
48. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Recovery
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
49. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Read/write head
Cache
RAID 5
50. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
CHKDSK
POST
Block mode