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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. Set of conductors - bundled and sheathed together - made of insulated copper or optical fiber that transport signals and power between electrical devices.
RAID 1
Cable
C: drive
Nonvolatile Memory
2. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
High-level formatting
Active partition
Bit rate
Drive image
3. The first sector of a floppy disk or logical drive in a partition; it contains information about the disk or logical drive. On a hard drive - if the THING is in the active partition - then it is used to boot the OS. Also called boot sector.
Boot record
Backplane
Adapter card
Cluster
4. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Post Diagnostic
Host adapter
Bit rate
External SATA: eSATA
5. 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
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Buffer
Automatic
Low-level formatting
6. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
Attention (AT) command set
Booting
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Boot sequence
7. In Windows XP - you should choose the _______________setting for updates.
Brownout
Automatic
Bit rate
Direct Memory Access: DMA
8. 4- - 6- - or 8-pin connector that supplies extra voltage to the motherboard from the power supply.
Solid State Device: SSD
Bit rate
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Loop-back plug
9. A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI device attached to the daisy chain.
Post Diagnostic
SCSI ID
Fault tolerance
Computer Preventive Maintenance
10. A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in CMOS setup.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Application Programming Interface (API)
Autodetection
Copy backup
11. 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
Bridge
CMOS/BIOS
Block mode
12. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Bridge
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
Magnetic hard drive
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
13. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
High-level formatting
14. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80-conductor cable.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment: SATA
File system
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Cold boot
15. 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
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Attention (AT) command set
Application Programming Interface (API)
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
16. 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.
Booting
Fault tolerance
Bus topology
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
17. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.
Block mode
Hybrid hard drives
The primary partition
Bootable disk
18. Temporary drop in AC power.
Brownout
Read/write head
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Category 5
19. 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.
Simple volume
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cold boot
20. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Hard boot
Category 5
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
21. 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.
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Backward compatible
ROM BIOS program
Bootable disk
22. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Automatic
AppleTalk
Cache
23. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Solid State Device: SSD
Read/write head
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Formatting
24. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.
Active partition
Head
Magnetic hard drive
Bridge
25. Issues dial - hang up - reset - and other instructions to the modem. It is based on the Hayes command set.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Attention (AT) command set
Host adapter
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
26. 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
External SATA: eSATA
Application layer
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Drive image
27. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Formatting
Category 5
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
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?
FAT12
The electrical system
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
CMOS/BIOS
29. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Copy backup
Read/write head
Cable
30. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.
Computer maintenance
C: drive
Head
Cold boot
31. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
CHKDSK
Terminating resistor
Backplane
Recovery
32. 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
Magnetic hard drive
Read/write head
File system
Automatic
33. 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.
POST
New Technology file system: NTFS
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
34. 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.
Hot-swapping
Logical Unit Number: LUN
Cluster
Application Programming Interface (API)
35. 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.
SCSI ID
ReadyDrive
Recovery CDs
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
36. 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.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
ActiveX
Active partition
Boot record
37. 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.
Application layer
ROM BIOS program
Recovery CDs
Host adapter
38. 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.
Spanning
SCSI ID
Host adapter
Soft boot
39. 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.
Solid State Device: SSD
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Spanning
Bus
40. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
FAT12
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Solid State Device: SSD
80-conductor IDE cable
41. __________________cards report computer errors and conflicts at POST.
Application Programming Interface (API)
High-level formatting
Post Diagnostic
Spanning
42. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Terminating resistor
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
New Technology file system: NTFS
SCSI ID
43. 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
Asymmetric encryption
Copy backup
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
44. 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)
Boot sequence
Low-level formatting
Backplane
45. Network with each computer
SCSI ID
Bus topology
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Basic disk
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.
High-level formatting
Boot record
External SATA: eSATA
Low-level formatting
47. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
CHKDSK
Head
Byte
CMOS/BIOS
48. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Backward compatible
RAID 1
Drive image
49. 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?
Last worked
File system
Direct Memory Access: DMA
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
50. 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.
RAID 5
Active partition
Application layer
Cold boot