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Computer Repair

Subject : 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. 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






2. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.






3. Another name for the primary volume.






4. A preventive maintenance plan tends to evolve from a history or pattern of __________malfunctions within an organization.






5. Fastener used to bundle cables inside and outside of a computer.






6. High-speed - 32-bit bus technology designed to support the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.






7. A drive that uses both solid state and magnetic technologies.






8. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.






9. To power up a computer from the off position.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.






13. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.






14. 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.






15. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.






16. 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






17. When two hard drives are configured as a single volume.






18. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)






19. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.






20. 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.






21. The advantages of ______________: To reduce the likelihood that the events that causes PC failures will occur and to lessen the damage if they do.






22. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. Used to repair and reinstall Windows






26. 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?






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive.






31. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.






32. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.






33. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.






34. 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






35. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.






36. Network with each computer






37. This tool can be used to test a USB port.






38. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.






39. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. The top or bottom surface of one platter on a hard drive. Each platter has two of these.






43. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.






44. 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.






45. The duplication of everything written to a hard drive.






46. 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.






47. 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






48. 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.






49. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.






50. How do you change a computer's Boot Sequence?