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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.
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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. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Attention (AT) command set
Boot record
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Loop-back plug
2. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Recovery
Application layer
Hard boot
Hot-swapping
3. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
RAID 0
Block mode
Beep codes
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
4. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
FAT12
Low-level formatting
Boot record
Computer maintenance
5. 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.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Cluster
Post Diagnostic
CHKDSK
6. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
ReadyDrive
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
80-conductor IDE cable
7. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Bootable disk
Backward compatible
Host adapter
Hybrid hard drives
8. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Buffer
Adapter card
Access Control List (ACL)
Bridge
9. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Whenever changes are made
Attention (AT) command set
Bridge
Hard boot
10. 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?
Beep codes
Last worked
Hybrid hard drives
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
11. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
SCSI host adapter card
Hot-swapping
ActiveX
12. 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.
FAT12
Asymmetric encryption
Bootable disk
Boot record
13. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Cache
Boot sequence
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Cable
14. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Copy backup
Soft boot
Automatic
CHKDSK
15. 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
Simple volume
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
RAID 5
16. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Fault tolerance
Terminating resistor
ActiveX
Drive image
17. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Low-level formatting
Application Programming Interface (API)
New Technology file system: NTFS
C: drive
18. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Magnetic hard drive
Loop-back plug
Application Programming Interface (API)
Solid State Device: SSD
19. 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
Bus topology
Attention (AT) command set
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Buffer
20. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Loop-back plug
Direct Memory Access: DMA
FAT12
Bridge
21. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Application layer
Recovery
Post Diagnostic
22. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Spanning
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Attention (AT) command set
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
23. To power up a computer from the off position.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Cold boot
C: drive
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
24. 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
Bootable disk
File system
Soft boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
25. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Application Programming Interface (API)
Spanning
File system
26. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Post Diagnostic
Head
High-level formatting
Boot record
27. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
ReadyDrive
Boot record
Bit rate
Direct Memory Access: DMA
28. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
SCSI ID
Spanning
RAID 0
29. 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.
Extended partition
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Nonvolatile Memory
SCSI ID
30. 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
Solid State Device: SSD
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
RAID 0
31. 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.
Bridge
Application layer
Solid State Device: SSD
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
32. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Hot-swapping
Adapter card
Extended partition
Booting
33. 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.
Hard boot
Spanning
Basic disk
ActiveX
34. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Boot sequence
Application Programming Interface (API)
Magnetic hard drive
Hybrid hard drives
35. POST means __________________.
Recovery CDs
Copy backup
Whenever changes are made
Power-On Self-Test
36. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Cable
Loop-back plug
Attention (AT) command set
FAT12
37. The term__________refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything but press the on button.
Booting
Recovery
Hybrid hard drives
FAT12
38. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
Cable tie
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Bus
Head
39. 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.
Cache
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Backward compatible
Block mode
40. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Computer Preventive Maintenance
80-conductor IDE cable
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
41. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.
Fault tolerance
Bus
Spanning
Host adapter
42. Another name for the primary volume.
High-level formatting
Head
Simple volume
Low-level formatting
43. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Bit rate
Automatic
The electrical system
44. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Asymmetric encryption
Bus
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
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.
Post Diagnostic
Hard boot
RAID 5
80-conductor IDE cable
46. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Automatic
The electrical system
Cable tie
47. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Last worked
Loop-back plug
Application Programming Interface (API)
RAID 1
48. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Backplane
Last worked
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Extended partition
49. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
SCSI ID
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Fault tolerance
50. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Loop-back plug
Hot-swapping
Cold boot
Cache