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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. 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
ReadyDrive
Power-On Self-Test
Formatting
RAID 0
2. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Soft boot
Active partition
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
3. Another name for the primary volume.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Simple volume
Backplane
Bus
4. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
External SATA: eSATA
Adapter card
Hot-swapping
5. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Bridge
Cable tie
Whenever changes are made
Backplane
6. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Basic disk
Post Diagnostic
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
7. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hybrid hard drives
Simple volume
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
8. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
FAT12
External SATA: eSATA
Bridge
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
9. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Loop-back plug
Cable
The electrical system
10. 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.
Hot-swapping
Fault tolerance
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Simple volume
11. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cache
Cluster
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
12. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Access Control List (ACL)
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
13. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
The electrical system
Read/write head
Host adapter
14. 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.
C: drive
Spanning
Low-level formatting
Asymmetric encryption
15. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Post Diagnostic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
16. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
ROM BIOS program
Loop-back plug
17. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Spanning
Cable
Application layer
18. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
SCSI host adapter card
Low-level formatting
RAID 0
Boot sequence
19. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Category 5
The electrical system
Bridge
20. 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.
Boot record
Access Control List (ACL)
Basic disk
Bootable disk
21. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Read/write head
POST
Cable
Computer Preventive Maintenance
22. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Terminating resistor
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Solid State Device: SSD
80-conductor IDE cable
23. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Cluster
Last worked
Beep codes
24. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
POST
Access Control List (ACL)
Bridge
25. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Host adapter
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Active partition
Recovery CDs
26. 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?
Bit rate
The electrical system
Last worked
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
27. 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.
Application layer
Hot-swapping
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
28. 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.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bootable disk
Extended partition
SCSI host adapter card
29. Applet or small program created by Microsoft to control interactivity on web pages that has to be downloaded to gain access to the full functionality.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Whenever changes are made
ActiveX
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
30. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Backplane
ReadyDrive
File Allocation Table: FAT
External SATA: eSATA
31. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Basic disk
Hard boot
Solid State Device: SSD
AppleTalk
32. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Basic disk
Solid State Device: SSD
Nonvolatile Memory
New Technology file system: NTFS
33. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
The electrical system
RAID 1
Access Control List (ACL)
Cache
34. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cable tie
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Soft boot
35. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Hard boot
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
External SATA: eSATA
36. Network with each computer
Brownout
Bus topology
Category 5
Computer Preventive Maintenance
37. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Loop-back plug
Computer maintenance
Cold boot
38. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Booting
Extended partition
RAID 1
39. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Bit rate
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
40. 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
Backplane
Cold boot
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
41. 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.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Active partition
RAID 5
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
42. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Boot sequence
Cache
CHKDSK
Head
43. 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.
Beep codes
Formatting
Cable
44. 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.
Boot record
Backward compatible
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Hot-swapping
45. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Application layer
FAT12
Access Control List (ACL)
46. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
Drive image
Adapter card
AppleTalk
47. 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
Application layer
Cluster
File Allocation Table: FAT
External SATA: eSATA
48. 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.
Last worked
Spanning
Logical Unit Number: LUN
The primary partition
49. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Post Diagnostic
CHKDSK
SCSI ID
Head
50. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
CMOS/BIOS
Basic disk
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)