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Subject
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
CHKDSK
The primary partition
Autodetection
Terminating resistor
2. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
CHKDSK
Bootable disk
3. 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?
External SATA: eSATA
The electrical system
Bus
AppleTalk
4. 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.
AppleTalk
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Bit rate
Recovery
5. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Bridge
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Byte
6. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Terminating resistor
The electrical system
Boot record
Recovery
7. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
File Allocation Table: FAT
RAID 1
8. 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
Loop-back plug
Block mode
Extended partition
File system
9. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
High-level formatting
Copy backup
Formatting
Hard boot
10. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Cold boot
Basic disk
Simple volume
ReadyDrive
11. 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.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Brownout
C: drive
Head
12. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
Adapter card
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
RAID 1
13. A drive with no moving parts. Uses nonvolatile flash memory.
Autodetection
80-conductor IDE cable
SCSI ID
Solid State Device: SSD
14. A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards.
Cable tie
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
File system
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
15. 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.
Last worked
Hard boot
Cluster
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
16. A process (usually performed at the factory) that electronically creates the hard drive tracks and sectors and tests for bad spots on the disk surface.
Read/write head
Asymmetric encryption
Low-level formatting
Loop-back plug
17. 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
Bus topology
Copy backup
Cable tie
18. The one bootable partition.
Category 5
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Booting
Active partition
19. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
RAID 5
Byte
SCSI ID
Solid State Device: SSD
20. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Loop-back plug
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
21. 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.
ActiveX
Spanning
ReadyDrive
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
22. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
File system
Attention (AT) command set
CHKDSK
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)
Simple volume
Brownout
Copy backup
24. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
File system
Hybrid hard drives
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Formatting
25. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
Post Diagnostic
Loop-back plug
Fault tolerance
New Technology file system: NTFS
26. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.
Fault tolerance
Backplane
ReadyDrive
Computer Preventive Maintenance
27. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
RAID 5
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
New Technology file system: NTFS
28. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Simple volume
Boot sequence
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Extended partition
29. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Automatic
American National Standards Institute: ANSI
Category 5
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
30. 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.
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Autodetection
CMOS/BIOS
Extended partition
31. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Attention (AT) command set
Boot record
Hybrid hard drives
Block mode
32. Media through which data is transferred from one part of a computer to another. The bus can be compared to a highway on which data travels within a computer.
High-level formatting
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Bus
Backplane
33. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Adapter card
Category 5
Automatic
Cold boot
34. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
External SATA: eSATA
Computer maintenance
35. 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
Bus topology
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Post Diagnostic
36. 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
Application layer
Whenever changes are made
SCSI host adapter card
Cold boot
37. 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.
Buffer
Category 5
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Host adapter
38. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Read/write head
RAID 0
Bootable disk
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
39. 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:
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Basic disk
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Logical Unit Number: LUN
40. 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.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Extended partition
Byte
Block mode
41. 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.
Hard boot
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Beep codes
High-level formatting
42. 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.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Computer maintenance
ROM BIOS program
43. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Cable tie
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
CHKDSK
Bootable disk
44. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Adapter card
Access Control List (ACL)
Boot sequence
Attention (AT) command set
45. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
Loop-back plug
Hard boot
Active partition
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
46. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Bootable disk
Bridge
Brownout
Hard boot
47. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Backward compatible
File Allocation Table: FAT
Basic disk
Drive image
48. 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
Cable tie
Computer maintenance
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
49. 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
ActiveX
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
CHKDSK
File system
50. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
RAID 1
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bit rate
Cache