Computer Class
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Ok so i made this quiz in order to quiz myself right before my actual test.
Questions and Answers
- 1.A floppy drive cable has ____ pins.
- A.
34
- B.
64
- C.
120
- D.
132
- 2.The process of making tracks and sectors prepare the disk to receive data is called _____ the disk.
- A.
Scaling
- B.
Tracking
- C.
Scratching
- D.
Formatting
- 3.A ___ is sometimes called a file allocation unit.
- A.
Sector
- B.
Cluster
- C.
Bit
- D.
Byte
- 4.The first sector on a floppy disk is called the ____ sector
- A.
.boot
- B.
Prime
- C.
Root
- D.
Record
- 5.A 3 1/2 inch, high- density floppy disk has ___ entries in the root directory.
- A.
96
- B.
112
- C.
224
- D.
256
- 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.
- A.
Controller
- B.
Actuator
- C.
Formatter
- D.
Processor
- 7.All the tracks that are the same distance from the center of the platters on a hard drive together make up one ____.
- A.
Segment
- B.
Sector
- C.
Head
- D.
Cylinder
- 8.For today's hard drives, the hard drive controller is ____ on a circuit board on or inside the drive housing.
- A.
Hardware
- B.
Software
- C.
Firmware
- D.
Diskware
- 9.Track and sector marking are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called___
- A.
Low-level
- B.
High-level
- C.
Primary
- D.
Secondary
- 10.In zone bit recording, every sector on the drive has ____ bytes.
- A.
265
- B.
332
- C.
458
- D.
512
- 11.In _____ formatting, the OS executes the part of the format process which is not carried out at the factory,
- A.
Low-level
- B.
High-level
- C.
Primary
- D.
Secondary
- 12.Parallel ATA is also called the ____ standard.
- A.
PIO
- B.
ANSI
- C.
LUN
- D.
EIDE
- 13.Parallel ATA allows for _____ connectors on a motherboard for _____ 40-pin data cables.
- A.
Two
- B.
Three
- C.
Four
- D.
Five
- 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.
- A.
ATAPI
- B.
DMA
- C.
LUN
- D.
PIO
- 15.Windows 9x does not support drives larger than ____GB unless third-party software provided by the hard drive manufacturer is used.
- A.
31
- B.
73
- C.
114
- D.
137
- 16.The CHS mode is used for drives less than ____.
- A.
256 MB
- B.
528 MB
- C.
8.4 GB
- D.
33.8 GB
- 17.SIMMs have a ____ data path.
- A.
4 bit
- B.
16 bit
- C.
32 bit
- D.
64 bit
- 18._____ EDO is a refined version of EDO.
- A.
Burst
- B.
Flash
- C.
Dual
- D.
Synchronous
- 19.SDRAM uses _____ pins.
- A.
64
- B.
112
- C.
144
- D.
168
- 20.DDR SDRAM has ____ notch(ES).
- A.
One
- B.
Two
- C.
Three
- D.
Four
- 21.DDR SDRAM uses ____ pins.
- A.
112
- B.
164
- C.
184
- D.
240
- 22.DDR2 SDRAM has a ___ pin DIMM.
- A.
164
- B.
185
- C.
240
- D.
356
- 23.With ____, the memory controller can communicate with two DIMMs at the same time, effectively doubling the speed of memory access.
- A.
Dual registers
- B.
Serial registers
- C.
Dual channels
- D.
Serial channels
- 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.
- A.
Pool
- B.
Bundle
- C.
Bank
- D.
Farm
- 25.The use of a parity bit means that every byte occupies ____ bit(s).
- A.
One
- B.
Two
- C.
Eight
- D.
Nine
- 26.Today's memory uses a new method of error checking called ___ that can detect and correct an error inn a single bit.
- A.
CAS
- B.
RAS
- C.
ECC
- D.
Parity
- 27.______ Latency and ______ Latency are two ways of measuring speed.
- A.
BEDO, RAS
- B.
CAS, RAS,
- C.
BEDO, GPF
- D.
EDO, ECC
- 28.A ___ is a measure of the total bandwidth of data moving between the module and the CPU.
- A.
MHz
- B.
PC rating
- C.
CAS Latency
- D.
RAS Latency
- 29.When looking at an advertisement for DIMMS, _______ of the module indicate(s) the width of the data bus.
- A.
Size
- B.
Weight
- C.
Density
- D.
Rings
- 30.For RIMM modules, install the RIMMs beginning with bank ____
- A.
0
- B.
1
- C.
2
- D.
3
- 31.If a memory module doesn't support registers or buffers, it is always referred to as a(n) ______ DIMM.
- 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.
- 33.To upgrade memory means to add more ______ to a computer
- 34.Stamped on each chip of a RAM module is a(n) _______ that identifies the date the chip was manufactured.
- 35.In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent _____ errors.
- 36.Data is written to and read from a floppy disk via a magnetic _____ mechanism in the floppy drive.
- 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.
- 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.
- 39.To reduce the amount of electical "noise, " or interference, on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a(n)_____.ter
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