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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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:






2. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.






3. 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.






4. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?






5. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).






9. Network with each computer






10. The one bootable partition.






11. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.






12. 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






13. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.






14. 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.






15. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






16. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.






17. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






18. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.






19. 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.






20. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






21. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






22. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






23. 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.






24. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.






25. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






26. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






27. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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






31. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.






32. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.






33. 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






34. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






38. Temporary drop in AC power.






39. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






40. To power up a computer from the off position.






41. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.






42. 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.






43. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.






44. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.






45. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.






46. 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






47. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST






48. Another name for the primary volume.






49. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.






50. 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