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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Basic disk
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Category 5
2. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
SCSI ID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
ReadyDrive
3. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
RAID 0
RAID 1
CMOS/BIOS
Cluster
4. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Booting
Last worked
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
5. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
The electrical system
Cable tie
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
C: drive
6. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
ROM BIOS program
Hot-swapping
Adapter card
7. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Cable
Recovery CDs
Cache
Category 5
8. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Magnetic hard drive
Drive image
Recovery
9. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Buffer
FAT12
Bit rate
10. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
ReadyDrive
Copy backup
Hard boot
Application layer
11. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
CMOS/BIOS
Attention (AT) command set
80-conductor IDE cable
FAT12
12. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Booting
Loop-back plug
SCSI host adapter card
Boot sequence
13. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Host adapter
RAID 1
Computer maintenance
Autodetection
14. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
External SATA: eSATA
Hybrid hard drives
Loop-back plug
ROM BIOS program
15. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
AppleTalk
Whenever changes are made
Head
RAID 0
16. 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.
Cache
Autodetection
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Host adapter
17. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Hard boot
Soft boot
Recovery CDs
Formatting
18. 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
Bridge
RAID 0
Recovery
Nonvolatile Memory
19. 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
Whenever changes are made
Host adapter
Block mode
SCSI host adapter card
20. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Terminating resistor
Bit rate
Basic disk
Category 5
21. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Boot record
Bus
22. 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 5
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Asymmetric encryption
23. 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.
RAID 0
Category 5
Recovery CDs
AppleTalk
24. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Cold boot
RAID 0
Cache
25. 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.
Low-level formatting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Soft boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
26. 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.
Last worked
Post Diagnostic
Autodetection
Cluster
27. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Autodetection
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Soft boot
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
28. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
New Technology file system: NTFS
Hybrid hard drives
Terminating resistor
29. 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.
Automatic
Buffer
The primary partition
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
30. 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
Cache
File Allocation Table: FAT
Autodetection
31. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
File Allocation Table: FAT
32. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Post Diagnostic
Fault tolerance
SCSI ID
33. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
POST
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Read/write head
Cable
34. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
CHKDSK
Copy backup
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
35. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
New Technology file system: NTFS
Bit rate
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
36. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Autodetection
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
C: drive
Backplane
37. 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.
Cache
Application layer
POST
ActiveX
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
Buffer
Adapter card
High-level formatting
Cluster
39. 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
Drive image
Access Control List (ACL)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. Temporary drop in AC power.
Simple volume
Brownout
Magnetic hard drive
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
41. 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
Block mode
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Application layer
External SATA: eSATA
42. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Head
Beep codes
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bus
43. 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
Bridge
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
C: drive
44. Generally the label for the first hard drive in a computer system. Drive A and Drive B are reserved for floppy drives. Drive B is rarely used on current computers.
Cluster
C: drive
Bus topology
ActiveX
45. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Nonvolatile Memory
Beep codes
SCSI ID
Bus topology
46. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Autodetection
Boot sequence
Loop-back plug
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
47. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
48. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Hybrid hard drives
FAT12
49. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Power-On Self-Test
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Adapter card
Drive image
50. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Head
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Backward compatible