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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Automatic
Soft boot
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
The electrical system
2. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Bit rate
Beep codes
Loop-back plug
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
3. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Loop-back plug
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Hard boot
4. 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?
Computer maintenance
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
ROM BIOS program
The electrical system
5. Generally the label for the first hard drive in a computer system. Drive A and Drive B are reserved for floppy drives. Drive B is rarely used on current computers.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Beep codes
C: drive
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
6. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Recovery
Terminating resistor
Fault tolerance
Application Programming Interface (API)
7. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
FAT12
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Booting
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
8. 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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Hard boot
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
External SATA: eSATA
9. 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
Cache
Power-On Self-Test
Bit rate
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
10. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
CHKDSK
Copy backup
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Computer maintenance
11. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Booting
Adapter card
Recovery
Access Control List (ACL)
12. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Post Diagnostic
Hot-swapping
13. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Head
Booting
RAID 0
Solid State Device: SSD
14. Memory that does not lose its data when the power is turned off.
Nonvolatile Memory
AppleTalk
80-conductor IDE cable
Whenever changes are made
15. 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
Adapter card
Application layer
Byte
Boot record
16. Temporary drop in AC power.
Loop-back plug
Brownout
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
17. 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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bridge
POST
Direct Memory Access: DMA
18. 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
Post Diagnostic
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
19. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Magnetic hard drive
Autodetection
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Category 5
20. 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
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Formatting
SCSI host adapter card
Cluster
21. 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
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Simple volume
22. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Cold boot
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
External SATA: eSATA
Boot sequence
23. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Recovery
Head
24. 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
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Nonvolatile Memory
Formatting
RAID 0
25. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Basic disk
Magnetic hard drive
Whenever changes are made
26. Having the ability to connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running. Also called hot-plugging.
Soft boot
Block mode
Hot-swapping
File Allocation Table: FAT
27. 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.
CMOS/BIOS
SCSI ID
The primary partition
C: drive
28. 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.
Autodetection
Boot sequence
Last worked
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
29. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
Beep codes
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Bus topology
30. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
External SATA: eSATA
Recovery CDs
Recovery
Formatting
31. 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.
Power-On Self-Test
Application layer
Drive image
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
32. 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.
Autodetection
Drive image
Fault tolerance
Booting
33. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Category 5
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Power-On Self-Test
Block mode
34. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Bus
New Technology file system: NTFS
80-conductor IDE cable
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
35. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Bit rate
Cold boot
ActiveX
36. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
SCSI ID
Cold boot
Cable tie
Bit rate
37. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Bootable disk
Formatting
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Drive image
38. Another name for the primary volume.
The electrical system
Post Diagnostic
Bus topology
Simple volume
39. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Buffer
Automatic
80-conductor IDE cable
40. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Direct Memory Access: DMA
The electrical system
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
41. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Spanning
Autodetection
Magnetic hard drive
42. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Backplane
Backward compatible
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
43. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Basic disk
Host adapter
Terminating resistor
The primary partition
44. 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.
Host adapter
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Cold boot
Spanning
45. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
Cable
Recovery CDs
FAT12
Spanning
46. 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.
Brownout
Backplane
High-level formatting
Backward compatible
47. 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
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
CMOS/BIOS
Buffer
48. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Buffer
Active partition
RAID 1
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
49. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Bit rate
SCSI ID
50. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Power-On Self-Test
Hybrid hard drives
Whenever changes are made
File Allocation Table: FAT