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70 Cards in this Set
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Data is written to the tracks of a floppy disk as bits
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Under windows 2000/xp, a hard drive can only use the ntfs file system
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A parallel ATA connector can accommodate one data cable for two drives
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The SCSI ID identifies the logical device
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Each serial ata connector and cable is dedicated to a single drive
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Inside an optical mouse is a ball that moves freely as you drag the mouse on a surface
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CRT monitors cost more than lcd monitors
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A usb cable has three wires, two fro power and one for communication
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The latest modem standard is V.92
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When you turn on the pc, windows plug and play detects a new hardware device
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Mini CD-R/Rw is installed in digital cameras and can be moved to a computer and read by a regular cd drive
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A dvd can only use the to surface for data
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A cd or dvd drive will not properly read a cd or dvd when the drive is standing vertically
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A mirrored volume corresponds to a primary partition on a basic disk and consists of disk space on a single physical disk
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A group of hard drives implementing raid is called an array
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Data is written to and read from a floppy disk via a magnetic _________ Mechanism in the floppy drive
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Read/writehead
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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
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controller
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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
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Host Adapter
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To reduce the amount of electrical noise, or interference, on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a ________
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Terminating resistor
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_________ 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
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Partition Magic
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The word _______ Means designed for safe and comfortable interaction between human beings and machines.
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Ergononic
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A _______ is used to scan barcodes on products to maintain inventory or at the point of sale POS
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barcode reader
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______ CRT monitors draw a screen by making two passes
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Interlaced
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Each composite location on a CRT screen is really made up of three dots and is called a
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Triad
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An infrared _______ provides and infrared port for wireless communication
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transceiver
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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
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A ______ card can turn your computer into a television
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Tv tuner
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A _______ card lets you capture the video input from a tv tuner card and save it to a file on your hard drive
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Video Capture
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Currently, the most popular interface for a optical drive is
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Parallel ATA or EIDE
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_______ 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
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Fault Tolerance
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A floppy drive cable has ____ pins.
a. 34 c. 120 b. 64 d. 132 |
34
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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 |
two
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Under all Windows operating systems, a floppy drive is always formatted using the ____ file system.
a. FAT12 c. NTFS b. FAT 32 d. PIO |
fat12
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A ____ is sometimes called a file allocation unit.
a. sector c. bit b. cluster d. byte |
cluster
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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 |
1.44
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The first sector on a floppy disk is called the ____ sector.
a. boot c. root b. prime d. record |
boot
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A 3 1/2-inch, high-density floppy disk has ____ entries in the root directory.
a. 96 c. 224 b. 112 d. 256 |
224
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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 |
cylinder
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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 |
low-level
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In zone bit recording, every sector on the drive has ____ bytes.
a. 265 c. 458 b. 332 d. 512. |
512
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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 |
high-level
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Parallel ATA is also called the ____ standard.
a. PIO c. LUN b. ANSI d. EIDE |
EIDE
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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 |
ATAPI
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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 |
137
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The CHS mode is used for drives less than ____.
a. 256 MB c. 8.4 GB b. 528 MB d. 33.8 GB |
528 mb
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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 |
motherboard
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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 |
touch screen
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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 |
biometric device
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Most fingerprint readers that are not embedded in other devices use a ____ connection.
a. PS/2 c. USB b. serial d. parallel |
usb
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____ monitors are also called flat panel monitors for the desktop.
a. DTE c. LCD b. CRT d. USB. |
lcd
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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 |
CRT
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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 |
LCD
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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 |
Refresh
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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 |
DCE
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____ refers to the logic on the motherboard that controls the serial ports on the board.
a. DCE c. DTE b. UART d. CRT |
UART
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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 |
host controller
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Chips sometimes loosen because of thermal changes; this condition is called ____.
a. bursting c. cracking b. chip creep d. chip mold |
chip creep
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____ 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 |
SIMD
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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 |
Eight, eight
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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 |
sample size
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____ 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 |
MPEG
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Playing MP3 files directly from the Internet without first downloading them is called ____.
a. burning audio c. streaming audio b. sampling d. ripping |
streaming audio
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Converting files from regular music CDs into MP3 files is called ____.
a. ripping c. streaming b. burning d. downloading |
ripping
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____ 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 |
MIDI
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DVD drives use the ____ file system.
a. CDFS c. FAT12 b. NTFS d. UDF |
UDF
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The surface of a CD stores data as pits and ____.
a. sectors c. mounts b. lands d. tracks |
Lands
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With constant ____ velocity, the disc rotates at a constant speed.
a. angular c. circular b. linear d. optical |
angular
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A ____ disc can only be written to once.
a. CD-W c. CD-RW b. CD-R d. regular CD |
cd-r
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A DVD can hold ____ GB of data.
a. 4.5 c. 7.2 b. 6.8 d. 8.5 |
8.5
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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 |
spanned
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