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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Nonvolatile Memory
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Fault tolerance
ROM BIOS program
2. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
Formatting
Power-On Self-Test
Application Programming Interface (API)
3. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Backplane
Active partition
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
4. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Basic disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Asymmetric encryption
5. 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.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Asymmetric encryption
Cable
Fault tolerance
6. 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
RAID 1
Buffer
Basic disk
Adapter card
7. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Formatting
Simple volume
POST
Application Programming Interface (API)
8. 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.
Magnetic hard drive
Last worked
Cache
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
9. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Simple volume
File system
Automatic
10. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cluster
11. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Boot record
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
High-level formatting
Category 5
12. 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
Copy backup
Application layer
Asymmetric encryption
Magnetic hard drive
13. 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
Asymmetric encryption
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI ID
14. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
External SATA: eSATA
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Solid State Device: SSD
15. 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 Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Cable tie
Magnetic hard drive
16. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Boot sequence
New Technology file system: NTFS
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
17. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Attention (AT) command set
RAID 1
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Active partition
18. 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.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Host adapter
Logical Unit Number: LUN
New Technology file system: NTFS
19. 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.
AppleTalk
Terminating resistor
Application layer
Low-level formatting
20. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
The primary partition
Head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Application Programming Interface (API)
21. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Copy backup
Category 5
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
22. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Power-On Self-Test
Hard boot
Bootable disk
Brownout
23. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Read/write head
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Adapter card
Hybrid hard drives
24. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Post Diagnostic
POST
Buffer
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
25. 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:
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Low-level formatting
Attention (AT) command set
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
26. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
POST
CHKDSK
Formatting
Cold boot
27. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Hard boot
Bit rate
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
28. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
SCSI host adapter card
Bus
CMOS/BIOS
Application Programming Interface (API)
29. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Brownout
Bridge
Bootable disk
Hybrid hard drives
30. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
ActiveX
Application layer
Hard boot
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
31. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Extended partition
Brownout
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
32. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Cable tie
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Soft boot
Power-On Self-Test
33. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Boot sequence
Block mode
34. 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.
Bridge
High-level formatting
Simple volume
Brownout
35. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
SCSI ID
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
The primary partition
Backplane
36. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Asymmetric encryption
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Basic disk
Spanning
37. 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
Recovery CDs
Read/write head
Solid State Device: SSD
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
38. 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.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Last worked
C: drive
39. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
SCSI ID
Booting
Application layer
40. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
Backplane
41. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Bit rate
SCSI host adapter card
RAID 1
42. 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?
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Bridge
CMOS/BIOS
Last worked
43. 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
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cable
RAID 0
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
44. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Buffer
Cable
Loop-back plug
45. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cache
The primary partition
Block mode
46. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Terminating resistor
Head
Recovery
Power-On Self-Test
47. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Extended partition
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Cache
48. 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
Magnetic hard drive
SCSI host adapter card
RAID 1
49. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Low-level formatting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Spanning
POST
50. 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.
CHKDSK
SCSI ID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Category 5