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1. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Recovery CDs
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Computer maintenance
2. 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
Hard boot
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Access Control List (ACL)
3. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?
New Technology file system: NTFS
Cold boot
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
CMOS/BIOS
4. 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.
Byte
Computer maintenance
Asymmetric encryption
CHKDSK
5. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
ReadyDrive
Active partition
Solid State Device: SSD
6. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
RAID 0
Category 5
Access Control List (ACL)
7. 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.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cold boot
Autodetection
8. 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
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
ActiveX
9. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Host adapter
Fault tolerance
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Head
10. 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.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
AppleTalk
Beep codes
Cold boot
11. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bus topology
Hard boot
12. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Extended partition
Read/write head
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
80-conductor IDE cable
13. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Solid State Device: SSD
Cache
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Backward compatible
14. 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
Hybrid hard drives
ROM BIOS program
Recovery CDs
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
15. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Boot sequence
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Computer maintenance
16. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Application Programming Interface (API)
Beep codes
Simple volume
Whenever changes are made
17. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Booting
High-level formatting
18. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
ActiveX
Cable
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Access Control List (ACL)
19. The one bootable partition.
Active partition
File system
High-level formatting
FAT12
20. 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
File system
Hard boot
Bootable disk
Loop-back plug
21. 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.
AppleTalk
Extended partition
Recovery CDs
80-conductor IDE cable
22. 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.
Terminating resistor
Loop-back plug
C: drive
Host adapter
23. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cable tie
Cold boot
Low-level formatting
POST
24. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Simple volume
Access Control List (ACL)
Fault tolerance
25. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
SCSI ID
Hard boot
Drive image
Solid State Device: SSD
26. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Hybrid hard drives
Hard boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Block mode
27. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Extended partition
Head
Cache
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
28. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
High-level formatting
External SATA: eSATA
C: drive
Application layer
29. 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
RAID 1
Boot record
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Asymmetric encryption
30. 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
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Recovery
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Logical Unit Number: LUN
31. 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
Boot sequence
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Fault tolerance
32. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Last worked
Attention (AT) command set
Automatic
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
33. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
CMOS/BIOS
File Allocation Table: FAT
Power-On Self-Test
Category 5
34. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
File system
Drive image
Brownout
CMOS/BIOS
35. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Autodetection
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Hot-swapping
36. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Boot sequence
Simple volume
Head
37. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
Bus topology
Loop-back plug
The electrical system
38. 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.
SCSI host adapter card
Nonvolatile Memory
High-level formatting
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
39. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Copy backup
File Allocation Table: FAT
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
40. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
File system
Application Programming Interface (API)
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Bus
41. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
CHKDSK
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
ReadyDrive
42. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Simple volume
Category 5
Computer maintenance
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
43. 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?
Last worked
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Fault tolerance
External SATA: eSATA
44. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
FAT12
Loop-back plug
File system
Read/write head
45. 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.
Bootable disk
Adapter card
RAID 5
Buffer
46. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Loop-back plug
Head
Hot-swapping
47. 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.
Extended partition
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Application Programming Interface (API)
Bit rate
48. 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
File system
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
RAID 1
49. 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.
RAID 0
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
FAT12
Nonvolatile Memory
50. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Fault tolerance
Post Diagnostic
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
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