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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Buffer
AppleTalk
Extended partition
Terminating resistor
2. 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
ROM BIOS program
Low-level formatting
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
3. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Power-On Self-Test
Spanning
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
4. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Booting
Copy backup
Block mode
5. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Cluster
SCSI host adapter card
6. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Post Diagnostic
Bit rate
Formatting
FAT12
7. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
POST
8. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Post Diagnostic
Bus
Head
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
9. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Automatic
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Cable tie
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
10. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Soft boot
Active partition
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
11. Performed from the operating system - such as by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Del or by choosing a Restart option from the Shut Down dialog box. Less stressful on the computer.
80-conductor IDE cable
High-level formatting
Soft boot
External SATA: eSATA
12. 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.
Terminating resistor
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Beep codes
13. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Cold boot
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
14. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Category 5
The electrical system
Cable tie
15. 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.
The primary partition
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Boot record
Brownout
16. 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
Bus topology
Attention (AT) command set
Application layer
17. 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
Buffer
Cold boot
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Loop-back plug
18. Another name for the primary volume.
Hot-swapping
Simple volume
FAT12
Drive image
19. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Recovery CDs
Solid State Device: SSD
Low-level formatting
Cable tie
20. 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
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
ReadyDrive
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
21. Network with each computer
Bus topology
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Cable tie
AppleTalk
22. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
CMOS/BIOS
RAID 0
RAID 5
Block mode
23. POST means __________________.
Power-On Self-Test
Hot-swapping
Terminating resistor
Cache
24. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
AppleTalk
Whenever changes are made
Bridge
Last worked
25. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Head
SCSI ID
AppleTalk
File Allocation Table: FAT
26. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Hot-swapping
Backplane
Cluster
80-conductor IDE cable
27. 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?
Post Diagnostic
Power-On Self-Test
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Last worked
28. 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.
Loop-back plug
Cluster
Formatting
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
29. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Simple volume
File Allocation Table: FAT
Backplane
Cable
30. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Cold boot
Power-On Self-Test
New Technology file system: NTFS
31. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Nonvolatile Memory
Bit rate
High-level formatting
ROM BIOS program
32. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Solid State Device: SSD
Read/write head
CMOS/BIOS
33. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Recovery CDs
High-level formatting
Application Programming Interface (API)
Drive image
34. 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
Fault tolerance
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
35. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Beep codes
Post Diagnostic
Basic disk
File system
36. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Block mode
37. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Recovery
RAID 5
Bus
38. 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
Cold boot
RAID 0
Whenever changes are made
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
39. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Spanning
Boot sequence
Hot-swapping
Extended partition
40. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Cold boot
Fault tolerance
CHKDSK
Loop-back plug
41. 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)
ReadyDrive
FAT12
Drive image
42. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
CHKDSK
Attention (AT) command set
Automatic
Active partition
43. 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
Whenever changes are made
C: drive
AppleTalk
SCSI host adapter card
44. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Formatting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
80-conductor IDE cable
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
45. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Loop-back plug
Beep codes
Solid State Device: SSD
Access Control List (ACL)
46. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
AppleTalk
Asymmetric encryption
Hard boot
Beep codes
47. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
ReadyDrive
Recovery
Bus topology
File system
48. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Active partition
Recovery
Nonvolatile Memory
New Technology file system: NTFS
49. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Attention (AT) command set
Access Control List (ACL)
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
External SATA: eSATA
50. 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.
80-conductor IDE cable
Bridge
FAT12
Post Diagnostic