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Computer Repair

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?






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






3. 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






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






5. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.






6. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.






7. POST means __________________.






8. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.






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






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






11. 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






12. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.






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






14. Network with each computer






15. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






16. 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.






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






18. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






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






26. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






27. 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.






28. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.






29. Temporary drop in AC power.






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






31. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






32. 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






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






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






35. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.






49. 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.






50. The overall structure an OS uses to name - store - and organize files on a drive. In it - a cluster is the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors. A it tracks how these clusters are used for each fil