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Which device would you add to a computer to take inventory? Bar code reader. TERM 2 What would you use to connect three computers to one mouse/keyboard/monitor? DEFINITION 2 KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch TERM 3 Give 2 examples of input devices. DEFINITION 3 Trackball and Touchscreen TERM 4 What is one advantage of serial ports over parallel ports? DEFINITION 4 Serial can send data over longer distances. TERM 5 What connector uses Centronics-type connectors? DEFINITION 5 Parallel
What is an advantage of parallel ports over serial ports? Parallel have a higher data transfer rate. TERM 7 Which device typically has both Type A and Type B USB ports? DEFINITION 7 USB-Compatible hub TERM 8 You connected 3 usb to a computer, how many IRQs are needed? DEFINITION 8 1 TERM 9 What is the maximum data transfer rate of an IEEE 1394a? DEFINITION 9 400 Mbps TERM 10 How many devices does a single IEEE 1394 bus support? DEFINITION 10 63
Your monitor is displaying a large black border around the main screen, how do you fix? Monitor hardware controls. TERM 17 After installing a new device, when would you continue with the wizard if it isn't discovered? DEFINITION 17 The device does not support plug-and-play TERM 18 What method does an SDHC card use for storing data? DEFINITION 18 Reprogrammable memory TERM 19 What two storage device types use magnetic film or aluminum platters? DEFINITION 19 Hard disk and Floppy disk TERM 20 Best storage that is fast and relatively inexpensive and large? DEFINITION 20 Hard disk
What are two advantages of solid state storage devices? no moving parts and lower power requirements TERM 22 What kind of power connector does a floppy drive use? DEFINITION 22 Mini-molex power connector TERM 23 How do you install a floppy drive into drive A? DEFINITION 23 Install it after the twist in the ribbon cable TERM 24 Which ribbon cable is used by an ATA/ hard drive? DEFINITION 24 40-pin / 80-wire TERM 25 How many PATA devices can be installed on a ypical modern ATX motherboard? DEFINITION 25 2
A CD-RW drive has speeds of Ax/Bx/Cx, what are A, B, and C? A = record speed, B = rewrite speed, C = read speed TERM 32 Which Blu-Ray standard defines a rewrite-able disk? DEFINITION 32 BD-RE TERM 33 What is the most important consideration when choosing a rewitable DVD drive? DEFINITION 33 Media Compatibility TERM 34 Which partition holds the boot loader program? DEFINITION 34 Active TERM 35 When should you use exFAT over FAT32 or NTFS? 2 answers DEFINITION 35 When formatting removable flash devices & when creating avolume over 32 GB.
What should you do to convert extended partitions with 2 local drives into simple volumes? Upgrade the disk to dynamic disk TERM 37 After installing a new hard disk drive, you get an error message, what utility should you use? DEFINITION 37 format TERM 38 Your HDD is formatted with NTFS, you want it to be FAT32, what do you do? DEFINITION 38 Back up the data on the drive, reformat the drive using FAT32, restore the data TERM 39 What is an advantage of exFAT over NTFS? DEFINITION 39 Lower memory and processor resource use TERM 40 You need to format a 64 GB flash drive for quick removal and, which file system do you use? DEFINITION 40 FAT
What is an advantage of RAID 5 over RAID 1 RAID 5 improves performance over RAID 1 TERM 47 What is RAID0/1/5? DEFINITION 47 0- Striping - breaks data into units across multiple disks.1- Mirroring - Stores data to 2 duplicate disks5- Striping w/ distributed parity - It is a combination of 0 and 1 TERM 48 You add a second HDD, what do you do to add space from the first HDD to the second one? DEFINITION 48 Create a mount point using space on the second disk TERM 49 when configuring a basic HDD FAT32 and a new HDD, what two things do you do to add space? DEFINITION 49 Run the convert command & Create an empty folder on the C drive TERM 50 to combine a single partioned FAT32 with a new HDD, what is required to add space? DEFINITION 50 On the new HDD, creat a new partition without a drive letter
What is the effect when you run Disk Defragmenter? Speeds up the I/O performance. TERM 52 Which command corrects cross-linked clusters in the file system? DEFINITION 52 chkdsk TERM 53 what are 2 terms that describe a group of computers that use centralized resources, etc. DEFINITION 53 Directory & Domain TERM 54 What term best describes a workgroup? DEFINITION 54 peer-to-peet TERM 55 What are two terms that describe a network that uses access control lists? DEFINITION 55 Workgroup & peer-to-peer
What connects a device to the transmission media and allows it to send/receive messages? Network interface card TERM 62 What is an example of a valid MAC address? DEFINITION 62 C0-34-FF-15-01-8E TERM 63 what device regenerates a signal out all connected ports w/o examining the frame/packet? DEFINITION 63 Hub TERM 64 two characteristics of coaxial cable are: DEFINITION 64 uses 2 concentric metallic conductors and it has a conductor made of copper in the center of the cable. TERM 65 which wire goes into pin 1 in a T568A? DEFINITION 65 Green w/ White
Installing cable in air space between ceiling and roof, what do you use? Plenum TERM 67 Ethernet using 10Base-T, what is true about this? DEFINITION 67 The network uses half-duplex communications TERM 68 What are 2 true facts about 1000Base-T standard? DEFINITION 68 The network opperates at 1 gb / secondThe network uses copper UTP cables TERM 69 2 facts about 10Base-T DEFINITION 69 Max distance is 100 metersthe network operates at 10 megabits / second TERM 70 What is the range and sub. mask for class a-c IP addresses? DEFINITION 70 A - 1.0.0.0 to 126.255.255.255 - 255.0.0.0B - 128.0.0.0 to 191.255.255.255 - 255.255.0.0C - 192.0.0.0 to 223.255.255.255 - 255.255.255.0D - 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 - N/AE - 240.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 - N/A
What port must be open in the server's firewall to allow remote acess? 3389 TERM 77 Which transport protocol should you use to manage multimedia streaming applications? DEFINITION 77 User Datagram Protocol (UDP) TERM 78 What protocol is nonroutable and requires other protocol to enable internetwork commu.. DEFINITION 78 NetBIOS TERM 79 What email protocol sends email from mail client to mail server? DEFINITION 79 SMTP TERM 80 Which email protocol uses email client to get mail from server & gives option to save on server DEFINITION 80 IMAP
Which protocol email client downloads messages from remote mail server? POP TERM 82 What IP protocol is used to allow authentication to access specific directories on server DEFINITION 82 FTP TERM 83 What port must be opened in server's firewall to allow clients access to services? DEFINITION 83 53 TERM 84 What is the data transmission rate for 802.11b? DEFINITION 84 11 Mbps TERM 85 Three facts about 802.11g DEFINITION 85 operates on 2.4 GHz, max bandwidth of 54 Mbps, backwards compatible with 802.11b
What are used in configuring an ADSL connection? (2) RJ-11 Connectors & Filters / splitters TERM 92 What are the ranges for a private IP address? DEFINITION 92 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255. TERM 93 Which utility is used to view current connections and active sessions/ports? DEFINITION 93 netstat TERM 94 What commanded this: server: blah.net Address: 209.53... DEFINITION 94 nslookup
