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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. This can be divided into one or more logical drives. Each logical drive is assigned a drive letter (such as drive G:) and is formatted using its own file system.
Extended partition
Category 5
Bit rate
Active partition
2. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Power-On Self-Test
Simple volume
Logical Unit Number: LUN
3. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
ROM BIOS program
Adapter card
Hybrid hard drives
Boot record
4. 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
Computer maintenance
Cluster
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
5. 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.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Solid State Device: SSD
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Spanning
6. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Autodetection
Basic disk
Recovery
7. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
AppleTalk
FAT12
Bridge
Cable
8. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Host adapter
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
Bus topology
9. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
The primary partition
Head
Host adapter
Active partition
10. 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.
CMOS/BIOS
Low-level formatting
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Soft boot
11. 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
Extended partition
POST
SCSI host adapter card
Loop-back plug
12. To power up a computer from the off position.
CHKDSK
Copy backup
Cold boot
The primary partition
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
Backplane
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Basic disk
Computer Preventive Maintenance
14. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Category 5
15. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Read/write head
Hard boot
ActiveX
Formatting
16. 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
SCSI ID
Backplane
Boot record
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
17. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Hot-swapping
ROM BIOS program
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
18. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
POST
Post Diagnostic
Autodetection
Cache
19. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
FAT12
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Direct Memory Access: DMA
New Technology file system: NTFS
20. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Access Control List (ACL)
Nonvolatile Memory
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
21. 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.
Host adapter
File system
FAT12
Byte
22. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Category 5
Autodetection
SCSI ID
23. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
ActiveX
Cable
24. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Solid State Device: SSD
Cache
Bit rate
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
25. 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
Booting
SCSI ID
Beep codes
Application layer
26. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
Whenever changes are made
POST
RAID 0
27. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Copy backup
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Autodetection
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
28. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Bridge
Category 5
Last worked
Block mode
29. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Power-On Self-Test
Automatic
30. 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.
Autodetection
Application layer
Computer maintenance
Backward compatible
31. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
ActiveX
C: drive
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
POST
32. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Bus
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
33. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Byte
Bus
RAID 5
Cable tie
34. 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
Bus topology
Cluster
Asymmetric encryption
35. 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:
Solid State Device: SSD
File Allocation Table: FAT
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Power-On Self-Test
36. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Whenever changes are made
Cable
Head
Read/write head
37. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Cluster
C: drive
Adapter card
38. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Boot record
POST
Post Diagnostic
Copy backup
39. 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.
SCSI ID
Boot record
Read/write head
Loop-back plug
40. 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
Soft boot
Recovery CDs
Backward compatible
41. 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
RAID 0
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Last worked
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
42. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
Host adapter
Cable
80-conductor IDE cable
43. 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
Computer maintenance
Active partition
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
80-conductor IDE cable
44. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Post Diagnostic
POST
Computer maintenance
45. Another name for the primary volume.
Booting
Bridge
Simple volume
External SATA: eSATA
46. 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
CMOS/BIOS
Host adapter
Soft boot
47. 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.
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Simple volume
Application layer
High-level formatting
48. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Bus
Beep codes
Magnetic hard drive
Spanning
49. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Byte
Booting
Spanning
Terminating resistor
50. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
Application Programming Interface (API)
Hybrid hard drives
AppleTalk