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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
RAID 5
Active partition
2. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Access Control List (ACL)
Magnetic hard drive
Simple volume
Formatting
3. 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.
POST
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Magnetic hard drive
Application layer
4. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Adapter card
Last worked
Category 5
Boot record
5. 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.
Backward compatible
Backplane
Cluster
Hybrid hard drives
6. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Power-On Self-Test
SCSI ID
7. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
SCSI ID
SCSI host adapter card
Cold boot
8. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Boot record
Booting
The primary partition
9. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
AppleTalk
Boot sequence
Automatic
10. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
80-conductor IDE cable
Cluster
Cable tie
Recovery CDs
11. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Drive image
Bus topology
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
12. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Copy backup
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Autodetection
ROM BIOS program
13. 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.
Cluster
Autodetection
Logical Unit Number: LUN
RAID 0
14. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
The electrical system
FAT12
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
15. 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.
Fault tolerance
RAID 1
Last worked
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
16. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Soft boot
SCSI ID
Adapter card
17. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Backward compatible
Copy backup
Host adapter
FAT12
18. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Bridge
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Adapter card
Cluster
19. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
ReadyDrive
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
80-conductor IDE cable
20. 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.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Soft boot
Bus
Terminating resistor
21. 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?
Hybrid hard drives
The electrical system
Head
External SATA: eSATA
22. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Cable
Category 5
Low-level formatting
23. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bridge
New Technology file system: NTFS
Bus
24. 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
The electrical system
Magnetic hard drive
Nonvolatile Memory
Loop-back plug
25. 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.
Formatting
RAID 5
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
C: drive
26. To power up a computer from the off position.
Nonvolatile Memory
RAID 5
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
27. 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.
Brownout
Byte
Magnetic hard drive
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
28. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
ROM BIOS program
Read/write head
Bridge
Block mode
29. 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.
Access Control List (ACL)
Backward compatible
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Host adapter
30. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Low-level formatting
Bus topology
31. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Byte
Autodetection
Application Programming Interface (API)
ReadyDrive
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
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Bit rate
Brownout
Logical Unit Number: LUN
33. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Boot record
Post Diagnostic
Hard boot
High-level formatting
34. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Cluster
RAID 0
FAT12
35. 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.
SCSI ID
FAT12
Bridge
Solid State Device: SSD
36. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Post Diagnostic
Hybrid hard drives
The primary partition
37. 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.
Bus
Basic disk
Boot sequence
High-level formatting
38. Temporary drop in AC power.
Booting
Category 5
Beep codes
Brownout
39. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
RAID 5
Bootable disk
40. 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
Cable tie
Hybrid hard drives
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cache
41. 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.
Cold boot
AppleTalk
Post Diagnostic
Bootable disk
42. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bus
Magnetic hard drive
Spanning
43. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
ActiveX
Bit rate
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
44. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
SCSI host adapter card
Hard boot
Hybrid hard drives
POST
45. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
SCSI ID
Booting
Boot sequence
Whenever changes are made
46. 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?
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Last worked
POST
Bus
47. Another name for the primary volume.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Simple volume
Cable tie
Host adapter
48. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Head
ReadyDrive
Cable tie
File system
49. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
High-level formatting
Head
Loop-back plug
50. The one bootable partition.
Backplane
Solid State Device: SSD
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Active partition