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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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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. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
FAT12
Application layer
80-conductor IDE cable
2. 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.
Bootable disk
The primary partition
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Recovery CDs
3. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Whenever changes are made
80-conductor IDE cable
4. Used to repair and reinstall Windows
Drive image
Backward compatible
RAID 1
Recovery CDs
5. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Solid State Device: SSD
Boot sequence
POST
6. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Category 5
Soft boot
7. 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
Cluster
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Application layer
Backward compatible
8. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Access Control List (ACL)
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
9. 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.
High-level formatting
Direct Memory Access: DMA
80-conductor IDE cable
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
10. 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.
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Byte
Access Control List (ACL)
File Allocation Table: FAT
11. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Boot sequence
File system
Bridge
Block mode
12. 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.
Buffer
Recovery
Spanning
Cluster
13. 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.
Brownout
Recovery CDs
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Autodetection
14. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Copy backup
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
File system
Block mode
15. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Host adapter
New Technology file system: NTFS
Spanning
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
16. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
ReadyDrive
Hard boot
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Automatic
17. 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.
Formatting
Category 5
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Spanning
18. 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.
Bus
ROM BIOS program
FAT12
Adapter card
19. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Bridge
Recovery
Bootable disk
Access Control List (ACL)
20. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Attention (AT) command set
Hot-swapping
Bootable disk
21. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Cache
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
22. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Hot-swapping
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
RAID 0
Low-level formatting
23. 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)
Cluster
Whenever changes are made
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
24. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Drive image
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Last worked
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
25. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Application Programming Interface (API)
Active partition
ReadyDrive
Category 5
26. 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
Application Programming Interface (API)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Nonvolatile Memory
27. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Recovery
CMOS/BIOS
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
28. When troubleshooting a failed boot - if you do not see any lights or hear any noises - what hardware system do you first assume is at fault?
80-conductor IDE cable
Recovery CDs
Application Programming Interface (API)
The electrical system
29. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Cluster
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Adapter card
SCSI host adapter card
30. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Read/write head
Cache
Block mode
Backplane
31. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Block mode
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
32. 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.
Adapter card
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bus topology
33. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Boot sequence
Hard boot
SCSI ID
Bus topology
34. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Cable
Post Diagnostic
Extended partition
35. 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.
Boot record
ActiveX
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cache
36. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Simple volume
Asymmetric encryption
Loop-back plug
Copy backup
37. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Spanning
ReadyDrive
Bootable disk
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
38. Temporary drop in AC power.
Power-On Self-Test
High-level formatting
Booting
Brownout
39. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Solid State Device: SSD
Cluster
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
40. 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.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Soft boot
The electrical system
41. 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
Backplane
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
ROM BIOS program
Logical Unit Number: LUN
42. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
POST
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Bus topology
RAID 1
43. 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
Bootable disk
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Beep codes
Cluster
44. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Hard boot
Basic disk
External SATA: eSATA
Formatting
45. 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.
Hybrid hard drives
RAID 1
Host adapter
Head
46. 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
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Active partition
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
47. 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
Hybrid hard drives
RAID 0
Low-level formatting
Logical Unit Number: LUN
48. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
49. A transfer mode used by devices - including the hard drive - to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Bridge
Brownout
Application layer
50. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Drive image
ReadyDrive
Logical Unit Number: LUN
ROM BIOS program