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Computer Repair
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. 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?
File Allocation Table: FAT
Automatic
The electrical system
RAID 1
2. 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
Boot record
Buffer
Power-On Self-Test
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
3. Standard that specifies full SATA cabling for external disks.
Cache
External SATA: eSATA
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Nonvolatile Memory
4. Physical connection between an interface processor or card - the data buses - and the power distribution buses inside a chassis.
Power-On Self-Test
Byte
Buffer
Backplane
5. 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.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
RAID 5
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Cable tie
6. List managed by a network administrator that itemizes what a user is permitted to access and the type of access granted.
Whenever changes are made
RAID 5
Access Control List (ACL)
Terminating resistor
7. You should write down or backup changes to CMOS/BIOS setup ____________________.
Computer maintenance
Whenever changes are made
Hot-swapping
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
8. 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.
Backplane
Simple volume
SCSI host adapter card
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
9. 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.
Hot-swapping
Booting
The primary partition
Application layer
10. A self-monitoring technology whereby the BIOS monitors the health of the hard drive and warns of an impending failure.
Nonvolatile Memory
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
Basic disk
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks: RAID
11. 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.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
CMOS/BIOS
Host adapter
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
12. 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.
Asymmetric encryption
Loop-back plug
Solid State Device: SSD
FAT12
13. This tool can be used to test a USB port.
External SATA: eSATA
Loop-back plug
Nonvolatile Memory
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
Soft boot
Byte
Loop-back plug
15. 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?
Post Diagnostic
Bridge
Auxiliary (AUX) power connector
Last worked
16. Expansion card that increases the number of controllers and ports available on a computer.
Recovery CDs
Backplane
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Adapter card
17. POST means __________________.
Active partition
Bit rate
File Allocation Table: FAT
Power-On Self-Test
18. Cable that contains four pairs of wires - with a maximum data rate of 1 Gbps.
Category 5
Boot record
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
ROM BIOS program
19. 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
Cable
RAID 0
20. An IDE cable that has 40 pins but uses 80 wires - 40 of which are ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the cable.
Nonvolatile Memory
Application layer
80-conductor IDE cable
Hybrid hard drives
21. 20-pin or 24-pin internal power supply connector.
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Beep codes
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Copy backup
22. Another name for the primary volume.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
Simple volume
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology: S.M.A.R.T.
23. The resistor added at the end of a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of the chain.
Asymmetric encryption
Magnetic hard drive
Bus
Terminating resistor
24. To power up a computer from the off position.
Cold boot
Nonvolatile Memory
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Formatting
25. The one bootable partition.
Simple volume
Access Control List (ACL)
Active partition
Low-level formatting
26. A Data Link layer device that connects and passes frames between two network segments. The frames are filtered and forwarded using MAC addresses.
Computer Preventive Maintenance
Attention (AT) command set
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Bridge
27. An older IDE cabling method that uses a 40-pin flat data cable or an 80-conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector.
Brownout
POST
New Technology file system: NTFS
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
28. 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.
AppleTalk
Attention (AT) command set
ActiveX
Hot-swapping
29. A________________CD can be used to boot a system and repair or reinstall Windows.
Post Diagnostic
Host adapter
Recovery
Loop-back plug
30. Order of drives checked for an OS. Example: Floppy (1st) - CD-ROM (2nd) Hard Drive (3rd)
CHKDSK
Active partition
Boot sequence
The electrical system
31. 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.
Byte
The electrical system
Cluster
High-level formatting
32. 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
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
The primary partition
Brownout
File system
33. A file system designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the FAT32 file system.
New Technology file system: NTFS
Bridge
Extended partition
Integrated Device Electronics: IDE
34. Is a type of drive imaging. It duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance.
RAID 1
Fault tolerance
Brownout
Bus topology
35. Standard computer case form factor for modern computers.
Byte
Cold boot
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
Cable tie
36. A transfer mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the hard drive to memory. This mode is slower than DMA mode.
File Allocation Table: FAT
Programmed Input/Output: PIO
Access Control List (ACL)
Spanning
37. 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.
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
Fault tolerance
High-level formatting
Recovery CDs
38. A sealed - magnetic coil device that moves across the surface of a disk either reading data from or writing data to the disk.
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Host adapter
Solid State Device: SSD
Read/write head
39. A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives.
Basic disk
SCSI host adapter card
Low-level formatting
Nonvolatile Memory
40. 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
Small Computer System Interface: SCSI
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
Solid State Device: SSD
Booting
41. 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.
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
File Allocation Table: FAT
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface: ATAPI
Bus
42. A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files.
Buffer
Logical Unit Number: LUN
File Allocation Table: FAT
Hard Disk Drive: HDD
43. 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.
POST
Recovery CDs
Cold boot
SCSI host adapter card
44. A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt.
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment: PATA
Block mode
Loop-back plug
Cold boot
45. Method for encrypting data on a network. Uses a private key for writing messages and a public key to decode the messages. Only the private key needs to be kept secret. Public keys can be distributed openly.
Category 5
Extended partition
Cache
Asymmetric encryption
46. 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
Brownout
The electrical system
Autodetection
47. Data storage area that provides high-speed access for the system.
Serial Attached SCSI: SAS
Terminating resistor
Cache
Bridge
48. Speed at which bits are transmitted - usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Nonvolatile Memory
Active partition
Bit rate
Cable tie
49. Command used to check the integrity of files and folders on a hard drive by scanning the disk surface for physical errors.
Attention (AT) command set
CHKDSK
Whenever changes are made
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX) power connector
50. Involves restarting the computer by pressing the on/off switch. Stressful on computers.
Power-On Self-Test
Hard boot
Basic disk
RAID 5