Q.1)    

A floppy drive cable has ____ pins.

Q.2)    

The process of making tracks and sectors prepare the disk to receive data is called _____ the disk.

Q.3)    

A ___ is sometimes called a file allocation unit.

Q.4)    

The first sector on a floppy disk is called the ____ sector

Q.5)    

A 3 1/2 inch, high- density floppy disk has ___ entries in the root directory.

Q.6)    

All the read/write heads of a hard disk are controlled by a(n) ____, which moves the read/write heads across the disk surfaces in unison.

Q.7)    

All the tracks that are the same distance from the center of the platters on a hard drive together make up one ____.

Q.8)    

for today's hard drives, the hard drive controller is ____ on a circuit board on or inside the drive housing.

Q.9)    

Track and sector marking are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called___

Q.10)    

In zone bit recording, every sector on the drive has ____ bytes.

Q.11)    

In _____ formatting, the OS executes the part of the format process which is not carried out at the factory,

Q.12)    

Parallel ATA is also called the ____ standard.

Q.13)    

Parallel ATA allows for _____ connectors on a motherboard for _____ 40-pin data cables.

Q.14)    

An EIDE drive such as CD, DVD, tape or Zip drive must follow the ____ standard in order to connect to a system using an EIDE connector.

Q.15)    

Windows 9x does not support drives larger than ____GB unless third-party software provided by the hard drive manufacturer is used.

Q.16)    

The CHS mode is used for drives less than ____.

Q.17)    

SIMMs have a ____ data path.

Q.18)    

_____ EDO is a refined version of EDO.

Q.19)    

SDRAM uses _____ pins.

Q.20)    

DDR SDRAM has ____ notch(ES).

Q.21)    

DDR SDRAM uses ____ pins.

Q.22)    

DDR2 SDRAM has a ___ pin DIMM.

Q.23)    

With ____, the memory controller can communicate with two DIMMs at the same time, effectively doubling the speed of memory access.

Q.24)    

A ____ is an area on the motherboard that holds the minimum number of memory chips or memory modules that must work together as a unit.

Q.25)    

The use of a parity bit means that every byte occupies ____ bit(s).

Q.26)    

Today's memory uses a new method of error checking called ___ that can detect and correct an error inn a single bit.

Q.27)    

______ Latency and  ______ Latency are two ways of measuring speed.

Q.28)    

A ___ is a measure of the total bandwidth of data moving between the module and the CPU.

Q.29)    

When looking at an advertisement for DIMMS, _______ of the module indicate(s) the width of the data bus.

Q.30)    

For RIMM modules, install the RIMMs beginning with bank ____

Q.31)    

If a memory module doesn't support registers or buffers, it is always referred to as a(n) ______ DIMM.

Q.32)    

__________ refers to an error-checking procedure in which either every byte has an even number of ones or every byte has an odd number of ones.

Q.33)    

To upgrade memory means to add more ______ to a computer

Q.34)    

Stamped on each chip of a RAM module is a(n) _______ that identifies the date the chip was manufactured.

Q.35)    

In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent _____ errors.

Q.36)    

Data is written to and read from a floppy disk via a magnetic _____ mechanism in the floppy drive.

Q.37)    

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.

Q.38)    

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.

Q.39)    

To reduce the amount of electical "noise, " or interference, on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a(n)_____.ter

Q.40)    

______ by Symantec lets you manage partitions on a hard drive more quickly and easily than with Fdisk for Windows 9x/Me or Disk Management for Windos 2000/XP