Guide To Hardware 7-9

Front 1

Data is written to the tracks of a floppy disk as bits

Back 1

T

Front 2

Under windows 2000/xp, a hard drive can only use the ntfs file system

Back 2

F

Front 3

A parallel ATA connector can accommodate one data cable for two drives

Back 3

T

Front 4

The SCSI ID identifies the logical device

Back 4

F

Front 5

Each serial ata connector and cable is dedicated to a single drive

Back 5

T

Front 6

Inside an optical mouse is a ball that moves freely as you drag the mouse on a surface

Back 6

F

Front 7

CRT monitors cost more than lcd monitors

Back 7

F

Front 8

A usb cable has three wires, two fro power and one for communication

Back 8

F

Front 9

The latest modem standard is V.92

Back 9

T

Front 10

When you turn on the pc, windows plug and play detects a new hardware device

Back 10

T

Front 11

Mini CD-R/Rw is installed in digital cameras and can be moved to a computer and read by a regular cd drive

Back 11

T

Front 12

A dvd can only use the to surface for data

Back 12

F

Front 13

A cd or dvd drive will not properly read a cd or dvd when the drive is standing vertically

Back 13

T

Front 14

A mirrored volume corresponds to a primary partition on a basic disk and consists of disk space on a single physical disk

Back 14

F

Front 15

A group of hard drives implementing raid is called an array

Back 15

T

Front 16

Data is written to and read from a floppy disk via a magnetic _________ Mechanism in the floppy drive

Back 16

Read/writehead

Front 17

A hard drive requires a _____ board filled with ROM programming to instruct the read/write heads how, where and when to move across the platters and write and read data

Back 17

controller

Front 18

if a motherboard does not have an embedded SCSI controller, the gateway from the scsi bus to the system bus is the _____, a card inserted into an expansion slot on the motherboard

Back 18

Host Adapter

Front 19

To reduce the amount of electrical noise, or interference, on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a ________

Back 19

Terminating resistor

Front 20

_________ by symantec lets you manage partitions on a hard drive more quickly and easily than with Fdisk for windows (x/Me or disk Management for windows 2000/xp

Back 20

Partition Magic

Front 21

The word _______ Means designed for safe and comfortable interaction between human beings and machines.

Back 21

Ergononic

Front 22

A _______ is used to scan barcodes on products to maintain inventory or at the point of sale POS

Back 22

barcode reader

Front 23

______ CRT monitors draw a screen by making two passes

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Interlaced

Front 24

Each composite location on a CRT screen is really made up of three dots and is called a

Back 24

Triad

Front 25

An infrared _______ provides and infrared port for wireless communication

Back 25

transceiver

Front 26

A _____ is a video camera that is used to capture digital video that can be used to feed live video on the Internet

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Web Cam

Front 27

A ______ card can turn your computer into a television

Back 27

Tv tuner

Front 28

A _______ card lets you capture the video input from a tv tuner card and save it to a file on your hard drive

Back 28

Video Capture

Front 29

Currently, the most popular interface for a optical drive is

Back 29

Parallel ATA or EIDE

Front 30

_______ is 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

Back 30

Fault Tolerance

Front 31

A floppy drive cable has ____ pins.
a. 34 c. 120
b. 64 d. 132

Back 31

34

Front 32

In the read/write head mechanism of a floppy drive, ____ head(s) are attached at the end of an actuator arm
that freely moves over the surface of the disk.
a. one c. three
b. two d. four

Back 32

two

Front 33

Under all Windows operating systems, a floppy drive is always formatted using the ____ file system.
a. FAT12 c. NTFS
b. FAT 32 d. PIO

Back 33

fat12

Front 34

A ____ is sometimes called a file allocation unit.
a. sector c. bit
b. cluster d. byte

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cluster

Front 35

A 3 1/2-inch, high-density floppy disk has a storage capacity of ____ MB.
a. 1.02 c. 1.65
b. 1.44 d. 2.10

Back 35

1.44

Front 36

The first sector on a floppy disk is called the ____ sector.
a. boot c. root
b. prime d. record

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boot

Front 37

A 3 1/2-inch, high-density floppy disk has ____ entries in the root directory.
a. 96 c. 224
b. 112 d. 256

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224

Front 38

All the tracks that are the same distance from the center of the platters on a hard drive together make up one
____.
a. segment c. head
b. sector d. cylinder

Back 38

cylinder

Front 39

Track and sector markings are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called ____ formatting.
a. low-level c. primary
b. high-level d. secondary

Back 39

low-level

Front 40

In zone bit recording, every sector on the drive has ____ bytes.
a. 265 c. 458
b. 332 d. 512.

Back 40

512

Front 41

In ____ formatting, the OS executes the part of the format process which is not carried out at the factory.
a. low-level c. primary
b. high-level d. secondary

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high-level

Front 42

Parallel ATA is also called the ____ standard.
a. PIO c. LUN
b. ANSI d. EIDE

Back 42

EIDE

Front 43

An EIDE drive such as a CD, DVD, tape, or Zip drive must follow the ____ standard in order to connect to a
system using an EIDE connector.
a. ATAPI c. LUN
b. DMA d. PIO

Back 43

ATAPI

Front 44

Windows 9x does not support drives larger than ____ GB unless third-party software provided by the hard
drive manufacturer is used.
a. 31 c. 114
b. 73 d. 137

Back 44

137

Front 45

The CHS mode is used for drives less than ____.
a. 256 MB c. 8.4 GB
b. 528 MB d. 33.8 GB

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528 mb

Front 46

A mouse that connects to the computer by using a dedicated, round PS/2 mouse port coming directly from the
motherboard is called a ____ mouse.
a. serial c. bus
b. motherboard d. wheel

Back 46

motherboard

Front 47

A ____ is an input device that uses a monitor or LCD panel as the backdrop for input options.
a. keyboard c. trackball
b. barcode reader d. touch screen

Back 47

touch screen

Front 48

A ____ can be used to identify a person’s fingerprints, handprints, face, voice, eye, and handwritten signatures.
a. barcode reader c. touch pad
b. biometric device d. trackball

Back 48

biometric device

Front 49

Most fingerprint readers that are not embedded in other devices use a ____ connection.
a. PS/2 c. USB
b. serial d. parallel

Back 49

usb

Front 50

____ monitors are also called flat panel monitors for the desktop.
a. DTE c. LCD
b. CRT d. USB.

Back 50

lcd

Front 51

Many monitors use ____ technology, in which the filaments at the back of the cathode tube shoot a beam of
electrons to the screen at the front of the tube.
a. LCD c. TFT
b. CRT d. PS/2

Back 51

CRT

Front 52

A(n) ____ monitor produces an image using a liquid crystal material made of large, easily polarized molecules.
a. LCD c. DTE
b. CRT d. PS/2

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LCD

Front 53

The ____ rate is the number of times in one second an electronic beam can fill the screen with lines from top
to bottom.
a. draw c. refresh
b. beam d. activation

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Refresh

Front 54

When a serial port is used by an external modem, the modem is called the ____ in documentation.
a. UART c. DCE
b. CRT d. DTE

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DCE

Front 55

____ refers to the logic on the motherboard that controls the serial ports on the board.
a. DCE c. DTE
b. UART d. CRT

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UART

Front 56

A USB ____, which for most motherboards is included in the chipset, manages the USB bus.
a. decoder c. host controller
b. hub d. bus director

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host controller

Front 57

Chips sometimes loosen because of thermal changes; this condition is called ____.
a. bursting c. cracking
b. chip creep d. chip mold

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chip creep

Front 58

____ is a process that allows the CPU to receive a single instruction and then execute it on multiple pieces of
data rather than receiving the same instruction each time each piece of data is received.
a. RAID c. MIMD
b. SISD d. SIMD

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SIMD

Front 59

The Surround Sound standard supports up to ____ separate sound channels of sound information for up to
____ different speakers, each producing a different sound.
a. four, two c. eight, four
b. six, six d. eight, eight

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Eight, eight

Front 60

The number of bits used to store a sample of sound is called the ____.
a. sample depth c. sample size
b. card size d. sampling rate

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sample size

Front 61

____ is a multimedia data compression standard that tracks movement from one frame to the next and stores
only what changes, rather than compressing individual frames.
a. TIFF c. JPEG
b. MPEG d. TWAIN

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MPEG

Front 62

Playing MP3 files directly from the Internet without first downloading them is called ____.
a. burning audio c. streaming audio
b. sampling d. ripping

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streaming audio

Front 63

Converting files from regular music CDs into MP3 files is called ____.
a. ripping c. streaming
b. burning d. downloading

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ripping

Front 64

____ is a method of digitally describing and storing every individual note played by each individual instrument
used in making music.
a. MIDI c. JPEG
b. MP3 d. TIFF

Back 64

MIDI

Front 65

DVD drives use the ____ file system.
a. CDFS c. FAT12
b. NTFS d. UDF

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UDF

Front 66

The surface of a CD stores data as pits and ____.
a. sectors c. mounts
b. lands d. tracks

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Lands

Front 67

With constant ____ velocity, the disc rotates at a constant speed.
a. angular c. circular
b. linear d. optical

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angular

Front 68

A ____ disc can only be written to once.
a. CD-W c. CD-RW
b. CD-R d. regular CD

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cd-r

Front 69

A DVD can hold ____ GB of data.
a. 4.5 c. 7.2
b. 6.8 d. 8.5

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8.5

Front 70

A ____ volume appears as a simple volume but can use space from two or more physical disks.
a. striped c. spanned
b. RAID-5 d. simple

Back 70

spanned