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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. 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:
Post Diagnostic
Boot record
Booting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
2. Troubleshooting tool that allows the computer to boot from a disk when the hard drive will not boot.
Autodetection
Brownout
Bootable disk
SCSI host adapter card
3. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Power-On Self-Test
Attention (AT) command set
SCSI ID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
4. 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
Computer maintenance
Soft boot
Copy backup
5. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
The primary partition
Brownout
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Post Diagnostic
6. 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.
Drive image
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Nonvolatile Memory
Logical Unit Number: LUN
7. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Spanning
Host adapter
Automatic
Boot sequence
8. 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.
ROM BIOS program
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Power-On Self-Test
Byte
9. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Cable tie
Hot-swapping
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Bit rate
10. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
POST
Basic disk
AppleTalk
Last worked
11. Temporary drop in AC power.
Bit rate
Boot sequence
Brownout
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
12. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Autodetection
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Backward compatible
13. 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
ReadyDrive
ROM BIOS program
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
14. Backs up user-selected files to tape. This backup does not reset the archive bit.
Formatting
CHKDSK
Last worked
Copy backup
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.
Backward compatible
80-conductor IDE cable
Whenever changes are made
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
16. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Formatting
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
CHKDSK
External SATA: eSATA
17. Another name for the primary volume.
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Block mode
Brownout
Simple volume
18. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Basic disk
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Computer maintenance
Bus
19. Network with each computer
RAID 0
Bus topology
Buffer
POST
20. 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
Application Programming Interface (API)
Magnetic hard drive
Application layer
CHKDSK
21. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Power-On Self-Test
Block mode
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
22. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Bridge
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
Recovery
23. This is how the BIOS communicates errors during POST
Recovery CDs
Drive image
Application layer
Beep codes
24. The process - you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
RAID 5
Solid State Device: SSD
Formatting
25. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
AppleTalk
Cable
FAT12
Recovery
26. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Solid State Device: SSD
Backplane
Beep codes
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
27. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Autodetection
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
ActiveX
Hybrid hard drives
28. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Post Diagnostic
Automatic
ReadyDrive
29. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Computer maintenance
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Recovery
30. 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.
File system
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Backward compatible
31. 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
SCSI host adapter card
Bus topology
Cold boot
Category 5
32. 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.
Booting
Host adapter
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Last worked
33. 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
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
AppleTalk
Application layer
Extended partition
34. The one bootable partition.
Host adapter
Active partition
Bus topology
Magnetic hard drive
35. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Cable tie
RAID 5
Application Programming Interface (API)
Access Control List (ACL)
36. 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.
Bus
ActiveX
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Booting
37. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Block mode
Backplane
New Technology file system: NTFS
Computer maintenance
38. 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
Bus
File system
Autodetection
Power-On Self-Test
39. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
Access Control List (ACL)
Drive image
Host adapter
File Allocation Table: FAT
40. 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
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics: EIDE
Active partition
Automatic
41. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Beep codes
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Buffer
42. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Copy backup
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Basic disk
Buffer
43. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
File Allocation Table: FAT
Read/write head
44. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.
Recovery
File Allocation Table: FAT
Cluster
Cable tie
45. A___________________can be used to test a USB port.
Host adapter
Loop-back plug
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
46. 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.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Low-level formatting
Bootable disk
Simple volume
47. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Terminating resistor
Category 5
Spanning
Hard boot
48. 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
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Cache
Simple volume
49. A set of tools - routines and protocols used to develop software applications that will be compatible with an operating system.
Read/write head
Whenever changes are made
Application Programming Interface (API)
New Technology file system: NTFS
50. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Logical Unit Number: LUN
External SATA: eSATA
Hybrid hard drives